About the text editor issue, I use and recommend VIM (http://www.vim.org) for editing idf and viewing output files, it?s an open source editor that has a version for Windows (graphic interface GVIM) and does all the needed operations, beginning with the syntax highlighting (use FORTRAN mode, that is the idf closest file type) and passing thru lots of text tools like multiple file split comparison, searches, file comparisons and others.
This editor is also light, there is no need to install (no administrator/superuser priviledges needed) and it never freezes, complains or does something you do not expect.
Leandro M Biondo
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:02:13 -0400
From: Chris Jones
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I haven't ventured into Energyplus IDF file editing but for DOE2.1e
and DOE2.2, UltraEdit works great.
UltraEdit includes:
Syntax highlighting for programming languages not build included is
very easy to add - edit a text file.
Side by side file compare, file merge etc.
Text fold/unfold
Save Copy As
Rectangular selection and column summing - this is handy when
examining the results files.
In addition UltraEdit has a fairly decent macro programming feature
including Record Keystrokes which is very handy for extracting
sections from the results files and copying them into another file.
One nice feature of UltraEdit is the ability to define Projects - a
group of files that are to be opened together.
Also, you can run dos commands/programs - handy for command line
compiling. I use it for running DOE2 when debugging an input
file. You can also call Windows programs but I haven't had a need to
do that as yet.
I have been using UltraEdit since 1996 - it replaced the dos based
editor I had been using, "Brief", a Borland product. I still use the
Brief keystroke commands - UltraEdit allows you to redefine the
keystroke commands.
>> Christopher Jones, P.Eng.
