| The Best Free Text Editors |
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According to Wikipedia, a Text Editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files. Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code. I put together a small list of the best and most popular free text editors. You can find it below. Notepad++ (Notepad Plus Plus)
Notepad++ is a free, GPL licensed, source code editor and Notepad replacement for Windows, that supports several languages. Based on Scintilla, a powerful editing component, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. Some of it's features are: Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, WYSIWYG, User Defined Syntax Highlighting, Auto-completion, Multi-Document, Multi-View, Regular Expression Search/Replace, Full Drag ‘N' Drop, Dynamic position of Views, File Status Auto-detection, Zoom in and zoom out, Multi-Language environment, Bookmark, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, Macro recording and playback, and much more. PSPad
PSPad is a freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Among other things it allows you to: work with several documents at the same time (MDI), save desktop sessions to later reopen all session files, edit files directly from the web (FTP client), record, save and load macros, search and replace in files, text difference with color-coded differences highlighted, use templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...), syntax highlighting according to file type, defined highlighters for exotic environments, use auto correction, and a lot more. Crimson Editor
Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java. You can count on these features: Edit multiple documents, Syntax highlighting, Multi-level undo/redo, Directory tree view window, Find and Replace, Column mode editing, Natural word wrapping, Spell checker, User tools and macros, Edit remote files directly using built-in FTP client, Print and Print preview. EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. EditPad Lite works with Windows NT4, 98, 2000, ME, XP and Vista. EditPad Lite is free for non-commercial use. EditPad Lite offers you some very interesting features like: open as many files at a time as you want, change between the open files by clicking on their tabs, unlimited undo and redo, directly edit Unicode text files and text files encoded in a variety of legacy code pages, save parts of your text to disk and insert a file in the current text, specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers, etc. and immediately see the effects in the print preview, keep the EditPad window on top of all other windows, reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened, etc. TotalEdit
A powerful editor and notepad replacement TotalEdit makes it easier to complete your file editing and software development tasks. TotalEdit is free for commercial and non-commercial purposes (its freeware). TotalEdit delivers a broad range of features and tools and it can be configured to work the way you want to. Some of it's features are: file editing and tools, built-in tool and explorers, project explorer, customization and configuration, search and replace, macros, printing and preview, backup and version comparison, formatting, spell checker, USB memory key support, syntax color formatting, column editing, and more. TextPad
TextPad is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Whether you simply need a powerful replacement for Notepad, a tool for editing your web pages, or a programming IDE, TextPad does what you want, the way you would expect. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. You can find international editions for TextPad in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish. Some of it's features are: edit huge files, up to the limits of 32-bit virtual memory, supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style names, and long file names with spaces, CUA compliant keyboard commands, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish user interfaces, a spelling checker with dictionaries in 10 languages, multiple files can be simultaneously edited, with up to 2 views per file, warm start feature lets you restart exactly where you left off, selected text can be case shifted and block indented, and characters, words and lines can be transposed, cut and copied text can be appended to the clipboard, as well as replacing its contents, text can be automatically word-wrapped at the margin, or at a specified column if it does not fit on a line, text can be split into separate lines where wrapping occurs, or lines can be intelligently joined, preserving paragraphs, etc. Araneae
Don't let your web development tools take over your project. Take control of your own code. Araneae (pronounced ah-RAN-ee-ay) is a simple, yet powerful text editor, providing only the features necessary to create websites and scripts using the latest web technologies. Best of all, Araneae is absolutely free for non-commercial use. Use it as long as you like for your personal projects. Features: syntax highlighting, support for HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and more, instant browser preview, even without saving, insert customizable quick clips, tabbed multi-document interface, drag and drop support for files and images, downloadable extensions, and more. |
