What's your favorite editor for modding FO

posted on November 9th, 2010, 9:04 am

I've always just used good-ol notepad and bocked at the idea of needing something more in spite of seeing some of the really cool options other editors have. That said, I'm short on time and notepad just ain't cutting it any more. So I'm shopping for a new editor, and I'm curious what some of the community favorites are. In particular, I'm wanting a multi-file editor with comapre tools so I can check versions side by side and look for changes made. The other usual features are cool too, but the idea of a multi-file side by side editor is what made me finally abandon notepad. Any suggestions?

posted on November 9th, 2010, 1:08 pm

Real men use Emacs 

posted on November 9th, 2010, 1:56 pm

I have always just used notepad, but notepad ++ is nice.  There will eventually be some cool editors the devs will release, but for now, notepad is my best friend.

posted on November 9th, 2010, 1:58 pm

Notepad++ is lightweight and feature-rich text editor. Should be pretty good general purpose text editor.

posted on November 9th, 2010, 7:17 pm

Notepad for text editing, Ms3D for modeling, Photoimpact for texturing.

posted on November 9th, 2010, 7:22 pm

For text files, I use either Notepad or Wordpad. I only use Notepad++ for tooltips.

posted on November 9th, 2010, 8:28 pm

For text files, I use either Notepad or Wordpad. I only use Notepad++ for tooltips.

Yeah, me too.

posted on November 10th, 2010, 10:24 am

Oh... Well dang, guess I'll just stick with notepad then.
Nobody knows of a multi-file side by side capable editor?

posted on November 10th, 2010, 10:34 am

Notepad++ - you can do side by side, diff and all that.

posted on November 10th, 2010, 1:10 pm

Notepad++ to edit tooltips, sprites, ODF, AIP, and any other text file that effects the game.

posted on November 10th, 2010, 3:57 pm

Oh ok... Very cool. I'll try it out for a little while. 

posted on November 13th, 2010, 8:45 am

i use notepad++ 4 that reason but i'm slowly developing my own editor (and i mean slowly)

posted on November 13th, 2010, 9:06 am

Nothing Beats Paint.exe.  Well, I use to edit... stuff.

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posted on November 13th, 2010, 12:00 pm

Nothing Beats Paint.exe.  Well, I use to edit... stuff.

the default windows image editor? thats mspaint.exe

posted on November 17th, 2010, 5:53 am

the default windows image editor? thats mspaint.exe

I renamed It.