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Having recently been working on a Windows desktop, when looking for a good yet basic text editor I remembered that years ago I used to use a freeware editor named PsPad.

This editor works great and provides all the basic functionality (and more) that I need.  There’s been one feature which appears broken that has really been bugging me however.  Since I work off of a network drive I guess there’s some file time-stamp detection error, possibly caused by the time being slightly different between the desktop and server.

Whenever I save a file and then move to another file (in another tab), when I return to the saved file, I get an error message warning me that the file has been changed and asking whether or not to reload it.  This bugged feature is pretty annoying when you’re trying to get on with serious productivity and since I’ve been unable to find a solution I’ve been forced to abandon it.

This problem exists with PSPad person 4.5.4 (2356).  After spending time searching around various forums it seemed a possible solution was to go to; Settings/Program Settings, clicking the “Direct edit” button at the bottom and adding “CheckDeleted=1″ to the “Special settings” section.  I did also try “CheckDeleted=0″ although with no success.

In the end I reverted to a personal favourite named Bluefish.  Bluefish is both open source and cross platform.  This would have been my first stop for a win32 editor although I didn’t know a win32 existed!

You can find the editor here: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Both binaries and source code at the above link.

If anyone knows how to solve this PSPad editor problem, it would be interesting to hear the solution, please leave a comment!