Find the Perfect Tools

From Productiveprogrammer

[edit] Wikipedia extensive list comparing text editors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

The one feature that sets Programmer's Notepad apart from others is the ability to send the current buffer -- NOT the current file -- to a tool (a text processor, a formatter, an interpreter). It's become my main text editor. -DanBernier

Don't forget that Vim - the best editor on earth can do that, and even more. And emacs too (which is the best bloated editor). -ZsoltBotykai

[edit] Who's got a file open?

I'm not sure where/how to best express this but here's an answer to a question that came up in one of Neal's great talks at NFJS: IARSN TaskInfo [1] shows open files on a process by process basis on pre-Vista Windows. (Maybe Vista, too; uncertain.)

Another way to do this is using Unlocker [2], which offers to close those handles, close or kill the programs keeping them, or just do plain ol' nothing.

My favorite tool for this task (and many others) on Windows is Process Explorer [3] from the SysInternals guys (now part of Microsoft).

[edit] Better Junction Managment

NTFS Link Ext[4] takes some of the pain out of windows junctions.