Comments on: The Best Free Syntax Highlighting Editor is ….?

By: agtrier

agtrier — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:07:06 +0000

Notepad++
Definitely

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WiredPrairie - Holy Intimidation Editor-Man! — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:06:15 +0000

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By: scheffler

scheffler — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:58:44 +0000

Used Crimson for the longest time, but have been happily using EmEditor (free version) [http://www.download.com/EmEditor-Free/3000-2352_4-10493299.html] for the last few months.

There’s an updated paid version which has more features, but the free version suits my needs just fine.

By: vik

vik — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:04:47 +0000

I use Scite [http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html]. It meets all the criteria you’ve listed. Also, you have great control over syntax highlighting as well as line highlighting. Great control over XML as well.

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:59:52 +0000

I meant Notepad++. I guess I can’t spell this morning.

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:22:13 +0000

I’ve used Notepadd++ for the last 3 years or so. It meets all your requirements, is fast and easy to learn.

It’s what I use when not edting in Visual Studio.

By: tachetti

tachetti — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:32:24 +0000

I always use Ultraedit. Although it’s not free, it has a lot of languages and it’s very fast. Massive replaces and search in files have saved my life a lot of times :P

By: irkregent

irkregent — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:39:56 +0000

My vote is for Notepad++. I use it almost exclusively for the ASP programming we do at work. I just love how it can handle separate color schemes and syntax highlight schemes for HTML, VBScript and Javascript all within the same document.

By: neilweber

neilweber — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:52:58 +0000

Emacs.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:29:31 +0000

Definately VIM. It will take a time investment to become truly comfortable in it (first thing to do is turn off behave mswin), but once you do you will become more productive in your text editor than you can possibly imagine. Text completion (ctrl-p, ctrl-n are your friends), incredibly powerful macros, and tons of other features (if you can get tags working, plus some of the auto commands you can run depending upon the filtype you will be amazed). It is not quite as powerful under windows as it is in a Unix environment (grep, and tags support need some fiddling to get them working). Find a good tutorial and start pluging away, you will be glad you did!