Text editor with cliptext capabilities?

EditPlus has been my editor of choice for many years. I use it to store all kinds of text snippets, so it has effectively become my personal database.

Now I'm looking for an alternative as EditPlus 3 still isn't truly portable and its developer doesn't show much ambition in that direction.

Must have: Cliptext sidebar or perhaps a node-based storage model such as Keynote;

Nice to have: Cross-platform, open source & fully portable.

What is your favourite way to store text (or code) snippets?

 

Hello,
Try Notepad++, Emacs ...
Emacs is a solid bet.
Mrk

 

EmEditoris full-featured, and has great plug-in and macro capability.

 

Thanks for the suggestions! As much as I like Notepad++, unfortunately its QuickText plugin offers only limited cliptext functionality: http://notepad-plus.wiki.sourceforge.net/QuickText HowTo

Haven't tried Emacs for Windows yet, quite a hefty download for a simple text editor

EmEditor is nice, its Snippets functionality comes close to what I want and it's portable. But there must be a more efficient way to manage (& search?) hundreds of text snippets.

Any more ideas?

 

That one is out, unfortunately. It uses a lot of memory; well over 15.000 K. Worse still, I tried to save a 500-word text as a snippet and it wouldn't let me do it: 'Text is too long'.

Please keep them coming!

 

Just came across this one; haven't found anything about cliptext yet, but it's sure got a ton of programmer-happiness-making capabilities:

cream

btw, I found it listed here: osalt

 

Osalt's a great place, thanks for the tip!

Meanwhile, I've looked at several alternatives, but still no decent cliptext - or snippets - capabilities. Any more ideas?

 

I've found one!

The Guide stores information in a hierarchical, tree-like structure. It isn't perfect yet - Windows only, drag & drop support still limited - but it is pretty customisable and open source. The latest stable beta version is fully portable.

http://theguide.sourceforge.net/

 

An EmEditor user has uploaded some videos on implementing "dynamic snippets" in EmEditor, here's a forum posting:
http://www.emeditor.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=965&forum=2

also, some relevant info here:
Snippet (programming)

and

wikipedia comparison of text editors

 

Thank you, thank you - lots of useful information.

The Guide has just come out in the 2.0 version, by the way.

Any more tips?