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    Lost User
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    In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

    "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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      In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

      "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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      Notepad Simple straight forward interface that does what it is supposed to, nothing more, nothing less.


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        In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

        "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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        SciTE: starts up fast, syntax highlighting for just about everything, good-looking printouts, solid search-and-replace.

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          In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

          "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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          Sharpie marker - it writes on anything

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            In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

            "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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            UltraEdit, just try it and you'll understand. Oops I read free a bit differently than most. I'd go with Scite or however you capitalize it. It's how I'd go. If you don't mind Java then jEdit is very cool. -- modified at 20:28 Friday 5th January, 2007

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              SciTE: starts up fast, syntax highlighting for just about everything, good-looking printouts, solid search-and-replace.

              ---- I just want you to be happy; That's my only little wish...

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              PJ Arends
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              Shog9 wrote:

              syntax highlighting

              In a text editor? I can see that in a code editor but that is overkill for a simple text editor.


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                UltraEdit, just try it and you'll understand. Oops I read free a bit differently than most. I'd go with Scite or however you capitalize it. It's how I'd go. If you don't mind Java then jEdit is very cool. -- modified at 20:28 Friday 5th January, 2007

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                It's probably quite powerful, but i shudder every time i see a screenshot - so much clutter around the text! :omg:

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                  Shog9 wrote:

                  syntax highlighting

                  In a text editor? I can see that in a code editor but that is overkill for a simple text editor.


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                  I may be crazy
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                  Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!

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                  I used to think that... But it's amazing how much code i read when i'm not editing. Whether reading code i've downloaded somewhere, or reviewing a file out of source control, or just pulling some snippets out of my personal toolbox... and good highlighting helps make all of this nicer. Not to mention syntax highlighting for batch files, INI files, and various other little text files that i'm constantly opening and closing. :D

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                    UltraEdit, just try it and you'll understand. Oops I read free a bit differently than most. I'd go with Scite or however you capitalize it. It's how I'd go. If you don't mind Java then jEdit is very cool. -- modified at 20:28 Friday 5th January, 2007

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                    Agreed. Well worth the $$.

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                      In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                      "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                      Christopher Duncan
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                      [edit] Oops! Didn't notice that they needed to be free. How dreadfully embarrassing. [/edit] Codewright. (Chris, where's our :tombstone: icon?) Actually, for all intents and purposes, I use it as a Windows version of Brief. I've got Visual Slick Edit, which is also nicely done and supports the Brief keyset, but there are tiny little differences between it and CodeWright, so I keep switching back. Not because CW is better, but because it's what my fingers are used to. -- modified at 19:54 Friday 5th January, 2007

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                        In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                        "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                        Bassam Abdul Baki
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                        UltraEdit is the best for $$$. I've used PSPad for free. UltraEdit is the slickest by far.


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                          In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

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                          Nnamdi Onyeyiri
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                          gEdit on Linux, Notepad2 on Windows

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                            In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                            "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                            code frog 0
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                            If you don't mind Java (and I don't) then check out jEdit. It's very cool.

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                              In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                              "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                              Photonman007
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                              Programmer's notepad. It's small, has highlighting for everything, very customizable, can manage projects and use other console tools and capture their output with a cool "system call" editor (for lack of a better word) and plugins, although there aren't many yet. Yeah, so that was more than 30 words. I hope I don't get banned.. :~ Oh, by the way, I made a C++ text clips file for it, and submitted it. When it gets posted, and if you try the program, let me know what you think :->

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                                If you don't mind Java (and I don't) then check out jEdit. It's very cool.

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                                Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                                I will second that too. I learnt lot of Java techniques from its source code.


                                Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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                                  In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                                  "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                                  Dave Kreskowiak
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                                  Real men use EDLIN! :-D

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                                    In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                                    "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                                    Fernando A Gomez F
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                                    Notepad++[^]!

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                                      In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                                      "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                                      Notepad, it's always there when you need it.


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                                        In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                                        "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                                        Jerry Hammond
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                                        Notepad. WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet.

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                                          In 30 words or less: What is your favorite free stand-alone (not part of a larger IDE) text editor and why?

                                          "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                                          EditPad. It's packed with features, but is still small and runs fast.


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