Thanks and goodbye to a trusted editor program...

[TomVilmer]

To own Arachnophilia, I ask that you stop whining about how hard your life is, at least for a while.
Stop whining for an hour, a day, a week, your choice, and you will have earned your copy of Arachnophilia.
Say encouraging words to young people, make them feel welcome on the planet Earth (many do not).
Show by example that we don't need all we have in order to be happy and productive.

This was the lovely welcome message from my new found web editor back in 1996.
A beautyful simple program called Arachnophilia.
We fell in love and have stayed in daily contact ever since.

Every day since then Arachnophilia was my first program to use for simple text editing.
It was originally made for Windows, but later changed to a Java program.
I chose to be stuck with the old version for more than 20 years.
I have hand written code for 1000nds of web pages in it - last one was yesterday.

I still love it but the world changed and now we had to part for technical reasons.
It is not anymore on my desktop, unscrupulously replaced by its quite expensive big brother UltraEdit.
This new one has finally achieved the same simple capabilities as Arachnophilia.
With UltraEdit's design and options peeled to the basics, the two now look completely alike on my screen.

I have followed the adice to stop whining about how hard your life is.
And I am very grateful for the good programmers around, who can dream up simple tools like this for us all to use.

Thanks for the ride, Arachnophilia!

[hunter]

1. I like Paul Lutus.

https://arachnoid.com/if_i_were_in_charge/index.html

I don't get your post, TomVilmer.

How was it unscrupulously replaced by UltraEdit?

So far as I can tell arachnophilia still lives.

https://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html

What is your unicode problem? Is this a work thing? A language thing? That would suck.

I've no personal investments in text processing software because I write everything in markdown, in English, and make it all pretty later using automated tools. Any text editor will work for that.

[TomVilmer]

2. Thanks for your comment...

... and sorry for my bad English.

I just wanted to praise this little program and its maker, that has been with me for so long. It is not his fault I am moving on. And yes, Arachnophilia still lives, but newer versions are in a Java-format, which does not work for my purposes.

And the UTF problem is because the world (and my partners) are moving for this change, which also ARE smarter that the old codepage tingie. And since my version of Arachnophilia is +20 years old, there is also other stuff which is not so reliable anymore.

I did and do some of the same techniques as your markdown tool. Fx a homemade online HTML editor, where the authors can write just the links, but the system makes it into movie players or whatever is needed. Simple for the writers, simple for the guests. And it works on the very first browsers, at the new ones as well.

Hand coded and could be done on any wordpad, but I do like the visuals of my old Arachnophilia, and would like to continue in such a tool.