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Looking for text editor compatible with Windows (txt)

I'm looking for a text editor that works interchangeably with Windows txt files. I've wasted so much time trying applications that won't import or export txt files that I can use on my PC. I have some office applications that are compatible with doc or docx. I thought that would be overkill, but I'm frustrated having tried several lightweight, or notepad, apps that won't interoperate with Windows notepad or wordpad.
I use ES File Explorer to move files between Android and Windows. Being able to attach files to email is also desirable. I do not want cloud storage or backup.
 
This may be a repeat. I entered a reply using Report and just thought that was the wrong button. Sorry about that.

I'm trying out Jota and have a question: How do I merge multiple lines into one line. Some applications call this re-flow, join, or unwrap. It removes the line end character(s) so that the text wraps per the wrapping setting.

I had looked at the ES Note Editor and found it has very few operations. If there's a list or instructions I'd love to see it. Finding how to save a file was obscure and when I did find it there were no options like choosing the file name or location. The ES Editor wasn't integrated with the ES menus.

On Windows my preferred text editor is NoteTab Lite, which has many features. I only use a few. For a Android editor I'd like to haver at least the features of Notepad.
 
I haven't personally used jota. And yes es's text editor is very basis. If you edit a file, you can only save it over the original.

My initial take on your post was that you simply needed an editor that would read/edit txt files that could then later be read/edited on a computer running windows.

What are the specific features you need from a text editor?
 
The features I use frequently in a text editor are: capitalization controls -- all caps, all lower, capitalize each word, capitalize first word of sentence; wrap lines (remove line breaks) for selected text; save as -- change name and/or location; search and replace; print (Google cloud printer installed); copy, cut and paste; open and close file.
 
This app may do most of what you're asking:

There is both a free and paid version.

FREE:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=robbin.android.NeedToWrite_Trial

PAID:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=robbin.android.NeedToWrite

Features:
Comes with both English interface and 简体中文界面 options, NTW edits text files of UNLIMITED size! Search (with wildcards!), replace, undo, redo, HTML mode, Text to speech, full customizability, and more!
NTW bookmarks your editing progress for every file. With NTW Shelf, every file is at your fingertips.
Paid version mainly adds lotsa poweruser options, not essential, but looks very useful, right ;D
1) Remembers up to 9999 undo/redo operations
2) Control over the End-Of-Line characters (Apple, Unix and Windows tend to handle different End-Of-Line differently when doing plain text editing)
3) Allows user to specify buffer size
4) Allows custom fonts and background images
5) Allows user to customize 6 extra Themes in addition to the built-in 3 Themes.
6) Allows toggling of word wrap
7) Continuous Text to Speech in paid version. Free version will play single paragraphs, then stop until play button is pressed again.
Features:
- Edits text files of any size by loading small segments of the file at a time. To navigate between file segments, either use the goTo command, or tap the arrow icons on the top left and right corners.
- Text to speech synthesizer!
- Page scroll or move cursor using volume buttons
- Supports HTML view! And allows text justification along both left and right
- Shelf system that works like a sortable Task list.
- Save/autosave and auto bookmark/backup features works in the background so your changes are never lost, but neither are you forced to irrevocably save changes you still feel ambiguous about.
- Undo/Redo, Search(with full *wildcards* functionality! :D) and Replace, GoTo.
- Themes! Customizable display, fonts, and colors for both paid and free versions. And for the paid version, you can even specify your own background images and custom fonts.
- Supports multiple encodings including, ISO8859-_, windows 125_, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
- Work with text files for easy transfer between your phone and PC.
- End of Line control when saving
- Toggleable word wrap
- Counts words and characters
 
Thanks, the description looked good, so I installed it on my Samsung TAB S Galaxy S 10.5 running Android version 4.4.2.

It opened with red letters on a yellow-green background. I'd like to change that and see what the other settings are. I can't figure out how to get to settings. All I'm seeing is a menu bar across the top: prev, % next, save, search, select,cut, copy, paste, loopy arrow to left, and loops arrow to right.

Is there a menu or preferences button somewhere?
 
Once you open a text document, press the menu button and you be presented with options like theme and tools :)
 
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There is no menu button to push. Unlike my DROID4 phone, which has a menu button on the case (not the screen), the Samsung Galaxy TAB S 10.5 has only Recent Apps, Home, and Back on the case. The screen has no menu. See following
Screenshot_2015-06-08-18-51-50.png
screenshot.
 
What if you long press the recent apps button?


Edit - this video seems to confirm that long pressing recent apps will work

 
Not necessarily. I had the same trouble initially with my phone, but eventually i figured it out. That's why i thought to suggest it to you :)

Even the video calls it a 'hidden' menu button ;)
 
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