Free Text Editor Recs
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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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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
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 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
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
[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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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
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
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
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.
I will second that too. I learnt lot of Java techniques from its source code.
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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
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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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
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
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
EditPad. It's packed with features, but is still small and runs fast.
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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
EmEditor: It's fast, customizable and without the bloat. UltraEdit would be my second choice, also a excellent editor
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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
Textpad 4 Small fast and friendly to use.
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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
Crimson Editor[^] - loads fast, recognises UNIX file formats automatically, detects and highlights languages automatically and hasn't crashed on me yet. This padding means I have done the review as required. Elaine (pedantic fluffy tigress)
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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
I will second Photonman007’s recommendation of Programmers Notepad, for the same reasons. Plus tabbed documents, fast and supports changing of line ending for either Windows or *Nix.
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