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I have found both PIEW and 3P valuable in my work. I find that PIEW is an easy installation and loads quickly. Database schema awareness can be added if desired. 3P is more comprehensive but takes some time and fiddling to get completely set up to make use of all of the capabilities. Importantly for us, 3P can be annoyingly laggy over a remote desktop connection. But it really is an incredible collection of features for 4GL programmers. I find it useful to keep two separate Notepad++ installations--one that has 3P added and one without. If you are dealing with old Windows installations, their older versions (or lack of!) DotNet libraries can prevent 3P from working. Newer versions of PIEW, as well, may have problems with older Windows versions. I always keep my currently-installed versions on hand as fallbacks when installing newer versions exactly for these reasons.
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