Friday, July 1, 2011

The best Text Editor ?

...once was UltraEdit, no doubt. But you had to pay it sixty bucks.
Then PSPad came. And it was (is) freeware and very good.
But the excellence was reach when a GPL, open source product saw the light: Notepad ++.
Today, lots of people are using N++, considering it the best free text editor for Windows out now, and i guess they're right.

This comparison will show you why:

Notepad++ has code folding, automatic multiple highlighting, column mode, a very rich choice of languages for code-coloring, can compare files in an elegant way, and so on... in addition, it uses a very low amount of memory to work, and it's fast like hell.

Downloading the hex plugin (just copy it into your "Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins" folder), it can hex-edit too (Article on Hex Editor Plugin: )

Let's give it a try, i don't think you will ever come back ;)

Official Notepad++ site:

P.S: It lacks of FTP / SSH connectivity, but do you really need such kind of things on a text editor ? Filezilla is there for that ;)

2 comments:

  1. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

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  2. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

    ReplyDelete