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  • L Lost User

    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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    • L Lost User

      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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        • L Lost User

          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

          Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

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          • L Lost User

            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++[^]!

            A polar bear is a bear whose coordinates has been changed in terms of sine and cosine. Personal Site

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            • L Lost User

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


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              • L Lost User

                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.

                Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.- Vernor Vinge

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                • L Lost User

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


                  Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before. Neo: That's why it's going to work.

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                  • L Lost User

                    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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                    DerMeister
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                    EmEditor: It's fast, customizable and without the bloat. UltraEdit would be my second choice, also a excellent editor

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                    • L Lost User

                      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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                      Johan Pretorius
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                      Textpad 4 Small fast and friendly to use.


                      Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
                      No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
                      I can't always be wrong ... or can I?

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                      • L Lost User

                        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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                        Lost User
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                        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)

                        The tigress is here :-D

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                        • L Lost User

                          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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                          Sceptic Mole
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                          PSPad[^] Better than UE.

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                          • L Lost User

                            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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                            S Douglas
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                            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.


                            I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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