{"id":372,"date":"2008-06-18T09:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/372"},"modified":"2008-06-18T09:32:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:32:42","slug":"the-best-free-syntax-highlighting-editor-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/372","title":{"rendered":"The Best Free Syntax Highlighting Editor is &#8230;.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody have a preference for a text editor (for Windows)? Although free is preferred, I&#8217;ll take suggestions for non-free options. <\/p>\n<p>My requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It needs to be FAST<\/li>\n<li>Syntax highlighting for common languages (C#\/JavaScript\/XML\/HTML).<\/li>\n<li>Maintained \/ supported<\/li>\n<li>Work on Vista\/Server 2003+<\/li>\n<li>Multiple documents very important (tabbed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;d appreciate it if you took 30 seconds to plug what you use<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If Visual Studio is running, I use that normally &#8212; but if it isn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t like the long load time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Potential freeware candidates&#8230; (but I&#8217;m sure there are others):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notepad-plus.sourceforge.net\/uk\/site.htm\">Notepad++<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flos-freeware.ch\/notepad2.html\">Notepad2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pspad.com\/en\/\">PSPad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimsoneditor.com\/\"><strike>Crimson Editor<\/strike><\/a> (no longer maintained)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/\">VIM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnotepad.org\/\">Programmer&#8217;s Notepad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquidninja.com\/metapad\/\"><strike>metapad<\/strike><\/a> (no longer maintained)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notetab.com\/ntl.php\">Notetab Light<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody have a preference for a text editor (for Windows)? Although free is preferred, I&#8217;ll take suggestions for non-free options. My requirements: It needs to be FAST Syntax highlighting for common languages (C#\/JavaScript\/XML\/HTML). Maintained \/ supported Work on Vista\/Server 2003+ Multiple documents very important (tabbed) &nbsp; I&#8217;d appreciate it if you took 30 seconds to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-60","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":741,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/741","url_meta":{"origin":372,"position":0},"title":"How to set Internet Explorer 8 View Source Tool\/Editor","date":"March 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"IE8 includes a new syntax highlighting View Source tool similar to what is available in other web browsers. 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