When comparing Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer) vs Rapid environment editor, the Slant community recommends Rapid environment editor for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” Rapid environment editor is ranked 24th while Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer) is ranked 48th. The most important reason people chose Rapid environment editor is:
Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Highly manageable multiple windows
Every window can be separately customized. You can choose between different views from 1 to 4 windows, and every window can have multiple tabs!
Pro You can view 4 windows simultaneously
Pro You can use tabs in every window
Pro Portable
Pro Free
Pro Does not use a lot of RAM
Q-dir with 4 windows and with 4 tabs in every window uses only 39mb of RAM on Win10x64.
Pro Fast and stable
Pro Very customizable
Pro Q-Dir allows you to save folder combinations as a favourite to open any time
Up to 64 folder combinations can be saved in a favorite, since each of the four windows is equipped with tabs (ie 4 x 16 tabs 4 x Tree View plus 4 x Address Bar).
Pro Warnings
Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.
Pro Easy
Editing of Windows environment variables is easy, splits long lines.
Pro Resolve variables values, make easy a refactoring of PATH by extracting different elements in their own new variable
Pro Convert variables between verbatim and expandable
Windows supports referencing variables within variables, but only if they're marked in the registry as expandable, and conversion between the two types is exposed in the context menu for each variable.
Cons
Con Sometimes may have bugs
Con Needs modern UI design
Con No search
Con Does not work with Quicklook
Con Simple
Some may not consider it a "power" user tool.
