Free Windows GUI text editor supporting Regular Expressions, for programmers?

Question

Looking for a free Windows GUI text editor that supports solid¹ regular expressions for its Find/Replace features, for programmers to use.

Familiar with Vim, Ed, Emcas, etc. Not looking for a command-based editor. Will give chosen editor to team members already familiar with Regular Expressions, but don't want learning curve incurred to use the editor itself.

1: "solid" meaning: the newest syntax or features implemented.

Answer 1

Take a look at notepad++, which is free and supports all kinds of regexy goodness.

Get the PortableApps version and you can keep it on a keydrive all the time -- handy for a mobile dev platform.

Answer 2

EditPad Pro seems to have it all. Although commercial, you can try for free.

As a free alternative, I use ConTEXT from time to time when I'm on Windows. Although it does not support look-arounds, almost all other PCRE features are supported. It's a nice lightweight text editor with tons of syntax highlighters available.

Answer 3

The Zeus Lite editor implements a Perl style of regular expression and it is free.

Answer 4

Another good one that I use - I like it better than notepad++ and ConTEXT - is PSPad It has a great set of features and can load larger files than notepad++.

A REALLY fully featured light-weight editor that I use to replace notepad - but has many of the features of PSPad including regular expression search is Notepad2