As a developer, I am always looking for useful tools. Text editors are one of those things that developers can talk your ear off about.
One of my new favorite "fast and dirty" text editors is SynWrite. SynWrite starts fast, has the basics that you want in a text editor (syntax highlighting, code folding, search and replace, etc). Plus it has a sidebar with 'tree structure view' of your code or HTML, which is a nice feature for a free, lightweight editor. My only complaint so far about SynWrite is its search and replace - it is dog slow on larger files.
There are a TON of free editors floating around. They can come and go as far as support and new development goes. Over the years I've used editors like:
MicroEmacs (back when you couldn't get real GNU Emacs for PCs)
ME2 - Mutt Editor - Emacs-y customizable by a lispish language called Mutt.
GNU Emacs (of course)
Vi/vim (because of its ubiquity on Linux and Unix)
ConText
Programmers Notepad 2
Notepad++
Scite (and other Scintilla based editors - such as TextAdept)
If you have an interest in text editors like me - check out texteditors.org. It attempts to be a fairly comprehensive collection of text editor information including grouping editors into families like platform, operating system, implementation language, content edited, ancestor and type. TECO anyone?
One of my new favorite "fast and dirty" text editors is SynWrite. SynWrite starts fast, has the basics that you want in a text editor (syntax highlighting, code folding, search and replace, etc). Plus it has a sidebar with 'tree structure view' of your code or HTML, which is a nice feature for a free, lightweight editor. My only complaint so far about SynWrite is its search and replace - it is dog slow on larger files.
There are a TON of free editors floating around. They can come and go as far as support and new development goes. Over the years I've used editors like:
MicroEmacs (back when you couldn't get real GNU Emacs for PCs)
ME2 - Mutt Editor - Emacs-y customizable by a lispish language called Mutt.
GNU Emacs (of course)
Vi/vim (because of its ubiquity on Linux and Unix)
ConText
Programmers Notepad 2
Notepad++
Scite (and other Scintilla based editors - such as TextAdept)
If you have an interest in text editors like me - check out texteditors.org. It attempts to be a fairly comprehensive collection of text editor information including grouping editors into families like platform, operating system, implementation language, content edited, ancestor and type. TECO anyone?
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