Thursday, September 17, 2009

Crimson editor and Window Vista

CRIMSON EDITORS:

Crimson Editor is my favorite text editor. It is a free lightweight text editor (only 1.2 MB), and has several useful feature. The ones that I use the most are
  1. Syntax highlighting
  2. Built-in and user-defined spell-checker
  3. User tools and macros: This is very cool. You can define any shortcut (e.g., Ctrl+1) in order to run any executable file on your system with various types of input argument (e.g., file title, filename (title + extension).
I am a LaTeX user. The above three functionalities are all I need to write LaTeX documents.

Here is the link to the editor.

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

PROBLEM WITH WINDOWS VISTA:

Unfortunately, UAC (User Account Control) of Windows Vista prevents the editor from using all its functionalities. For Crimson editor version 7, I cannot save the configuration of "User Tools". Once the editor is closed, the configuration is lost. When the editor is reopened, I have to reenter all the configuration for user tools.

To get around this problem, you have to right click on the Crimson Editor icon and click on "Run as administrator". By doing that, the configuration will be saved upon the exiting program.

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