![]() It doesn't require installation, it doesn't write in the registry, and doesn't use external DLLs. TheGun is entirely coded in Microsoft Assembler (MASM) using the Windows API functions. An excellent notepad replacement, none the less. However, as a notepad replacement, will only open one file per instance, can't define new languages for highlighting (without recompiling), and doesn't support code folding. Supports syntax highlighting, regex search/replace, DOS/UNIX/Mac line endings, Unicode, and bookmarks. Notepad replacement based on the Scintilla editing component. They're rather a replacement for the standard Notepad that comes with Microsoft Windows. Not a real alternative to EditPlus, nor an editor for coders. The developer recently released the source code as he no longer has the time to devote to it. Excellent choice for EditPlus users who have to work on Windows servers, where it can be used to replace Notepad without the need for licenses. Also, the interface and functionalities look very similar to older versions of EditPlus. Crimson Editor (freeware, also newly open sourced)Ĭrimson Editor is a freeware editor for Windows with customizable syntax highlighting and macro recording support.Zeus offers the standard set of internet editing features like HTML syntax highlighting, built-in FTP/SFTP editing and checking HTML code for W3C conformance using Tidy HTML.īut it also offers many more programmer specific features like code folding, class browsing, intellisensing, macro scripting, project/workspace management, integrated version control and more. This project - based on the Scintilla edit component - is written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program).Ī very good and mature product with a powerful macro language.įor a comparison of the features between Multi-Edit and the other leading editors (including EditPlus) click here Zeus For Windows Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. Includes: syntax highlighting, code folding, column selecting, find and replace using regular expressions, find in files (search multiple files at once). It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration programs as well as SciTE and Scintilla, themselves." Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. EditPad Lite (free for non commercial use, not open source)Įxcellent editor with many interesting features which include ability to script using JavaScript, and the Code Explorer.Only* reason to use this over editplus is the code-folding and the Color Selector.The search feature has a useful "list lines containing string" option. The syntax highlight is very customizable upto a point - but not flexible enough for some. The syntax highlight is completely customizable but acting "weird" at times.Īdditionally, it has the very useful ability to edit "Raw" files, that is, you can edit the file in Hex format, byte by byte. There are a few screen bugs when scrolling and selecting. The text editor as such is not the greatest, but it does the job. It also has the rest of the features, even though they have not been attached to convenient shortcuts. UltraEdit has a built in FTP and SFTP feature, which works OK. Ctrl+F does not open the search box but starts a search with the previously used search term (unless you switch to Microsoft compatibility mode in the settings screens). It does have a built in file comparison tool, but lacks builtin FTP support, which is what led me to switch to Editplus.Īlso, the shortcuts are not standardized. However, development on it has languished - the last release was June '04. (A new version of TextPad was released in March 2007.) Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for 122 languages.Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.Built-in macro language extensible plugin architecture.It is missing some EditPlus functionality, but it has a number of advantages: ![]() This also means that is is slower than EditPlus. It is written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
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