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Notepad++

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:06:44 -0400

Notepad++ is a free, open-source text editor program often used as a replacement to Windows Notepad, and as a fairly powerful source code editor. Notepad++ has been downloaded more than 8 million times from Sourceforge.net, has been translated into many languages, and includes numerous third-party plugins. The project is based on the Scintilla editor component and is headed by a single developer named Don Ho. Notepad++ supports syntax highlighting and autocompletion of many popular programming languages and scripts, and is fully customizable. It is a tab-based editing environment allowing you to have multiple files open at once in one instance of the program.

Features

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion
Multi-Document tabbed environment
Multi-View - a) place two documents side-by-side, b) view a single document in two different positions
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
Dynamic position of Views
File Status Auto-detection (unsaved, file changed, file moved, etc.)
Zooming
Multi-Language environment supported
Bookmarks and line numbers
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro recording and playback

Windows Notepad

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:13:35 -0400

Notepad is a plain text editor that is included free with every version of Microsoft Windows since 1985. The software is has minimal functionality and a very plain interface. Up to, and including, Windows 95 FixedSys was the only font used in the program. Now, users can can change the default font, which is initially set up as Lucida Console. It has minimal line counting functionality that only appears in the status bar with word wrap disabled.

Features

Plain text editor
Search (CTL+F), Replace (CTL+H)
Custom font
Line and column counting in status bar
Word wrap

Vim

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:15:31 -0400

Vim is a free text editor and is the improved version of Vi, one of the first full screen text editors. It has extended functionality over Vi and there are versions to suit almost any operating system. It is installed by default in most UNIX like operating systems such as GNU/Linux. Vi is small, customisable and very portable with a transportable configuration file and offers some very advanced features. There is syntax highlighting available for a wide variety of programming languages. It is one of the fastest text editors to use for touch typists as almost all commands and settings can be made from the keyboard - often by pressing a single key. This is possible as Vim is a multi-modal editor - something which can confuse those new to the programme. Once accustomed to the Vi / Vim command and insert modes - it is simple to move text and to execute search and replace operations. Reading the extensive manual is recommended though. Versions include gVim, a GUI based version for Windows and Linux.

OmmWriter

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:32:21 -0500

A simple text editor for Mac which provides a intimate and smooth interface.

UltraEdit

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:16:19 -0400

UltaEdit is a closed-source, shareware text editor. UltraEdit is often referred to as a programmer's editor due to its extensive features (see below for a sample). UltraEdit uses a tabbed environment allowing you to have multiple files open for editing at the same time. It also allows you to setup both multiple project/workspaces and environments. Changing environments changes how the toolbars and menus are arranged to better suit the task at hand (e.g. writing sysadmin scripts vs. web development).

Features

Configurable syntax highlighting
- Comes pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl
- More wordlists for other programming languages are available from the company's website.
Code Folding
Supports 64-bit file handling
Unicode support
Mulitline find and replace dialogs
Built-in FTP/SFTP/SSH/Telnet support
Integrated macro language to automate tasks
Configurable keyboard mapping
Column/block mode editing
Hex editor
Named templates
Supports File encryption / decryption
Multi-byte support with integrated IME support

TextEdit

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:16:38 -0400

TextEdit is a plain and rich text editor that is included free with every version of Mac OS X since 10.0 "Cheetah".

Emacs

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:15:48 -0400