Windows-based Text Editors [closed]

Answer 1

I personally like ConTEXT.

A lot of people gave their suggestions for favourite text editor here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10238/text-editor-or-ide#10391

Answer 2

Sublime Text is amazing.

Answer 3

I'm a massive fan of Notepad2 - it is so quick!

For quick simple editing of text for me it's close to perfect. It has syntax colouring for Xml and code and can be extended easily.

We use Dreamweaver and Visual Studio for larger coding efforts.

Answer 4

UltraEdit is my second home. It is a great general purpose text editor.

Answer 5

UltraEdit it my favorite text editor. Too bad I have to pay for it. You can't beat the ability to highlight vertically vs. horizontally.

Answer 6

Textpad replaces notepad for me. I couldn't live without it. Some key features that I use with Textpad are:

1. Find in files (along with open all, replace all, save all, close all).
2. Block Select (along with copy/paste of a column).
3. Clip Library
4. Syntax highlighting
5. Ability to attach externals tools (compilers, etc.) and capture the output to a window.

I use Eclipse for Java, Visual Studio for C++, C#, and VB.NET, JellyFish Pro for PowerBasic, I still use Visual Studio 6 for Classic VB, and I use TextPad for perl, python, Powershell, vbscript, SQL, HTML, and batch files.