Monday, August 9, 2010

Microsoft Bend - A modern text editor

Bend is a modern text editor. Bend takes off after the Zune client, but doesn't constrain itself to it.
Find on page borrows from Apple Safari. Tabs are Google Chome inspired. This text editor aims to
be elegant, clean and a pleasure to work in. It exploits XAML / WPF to render beautiful hardware
accelerated text, each feature is carefully selected to balance performance and style.

Download the latest version and take it for a spin. Be warned Bend is work in progress – expect bugs and occasional surprise features.

Prerequisites:

  1. Microsoft .Net framework 4.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992&displaylang=en
  2. Windows Installer 3.1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c&displaylang=en
  3. Windows 7

Apparently Bend works on Vista and XP SP3 as well. As long as .net 4.0 works, Bend should work.
Beta/RC version of .net 4 framework run into installation problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework#Versions lists 4.0.30319.1 as the version to have.

Feature support:

- Tabs
- Find on page
- Zoom Ctrl+Mouse wheel
- Syntax highlighting (Extensible and supports .asp/.boo/.bat/.coco/.cpp/.cs/.html/.java/.js/.php/.vb/.xml)

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3 comments:

  1. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

    ReplyDelete
  2. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

    ReplyDelete
  3. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

    ReplyDelete