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title: "Editor's Choice Awards"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/19/editors-choice-awards.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/19/editors-choice-awards.html"
published: "2003-05-19T06:47:00"
updated: "2003-05-19T06:47:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "OK, I give up. UltraEdit is the best Text editor I've used. The only thing missing from it (that exists in most other editors) is the ability to press ALT and then select text using Block mode. No.You have to enter…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Editor's Choice Awards

By Roy Osherove May 19, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 19, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

OK, I give up. [UltraEdit](http://www.ultraedit.com/) is **the** best Text editor I've used. The only thing missing from it (that exists in most other editors) is the ability to press ALT and then select text using Block mode. No.You have to enter block mode using a menu. that sucks.

[Textpad](http://www.textpad.com/) is the next cool editor. It features 95% of UE's functionality, but with a smaller footprint and faster load times.  I've found EmEditor to be ,well, less than satisfactory to say the least.

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

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- May 19, 2003

    ### [About Productivity](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/19/about-productivity.html)

- May 18, 2003

    ### [FeedDemon](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/18/feeddemon.html)

- May 15, 2003

    ### [One Cool Menu](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/15/one-cool-menu.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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