What's your favorite Windows text editor?

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What are the good free programming text editors for Windows?

I'm looking for a good Windows programming text editor. I want something clean and simple, but that offers flexible syntax highlighting, line numbering, a right-margin indicator, and other creature comforts.

My favorites:

NotePad++
Vim

Answer 1

cPad is a very good one, supports about 50 different languages. I've been using it for quite a while when I'm out of VS2008. Give it a try, it's Freeware.

Answer 2

I use Notepad2. It's free, and has all of the creature comforts you'd expect.

Answer 3

Hi

Have you tried Crimson (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/) ? I used this even for Java Programming - Is so fast and stable. Has some custom commands that you can set up compile command which will compile the code is written in the editor.

But moreover, I would stick to Notepad++.

Answer 4

EMACS. Free, and the One True Editor.

Answer 5

jEdit or UltraEdit

Answer 6

Notepad++ for sure, which is based on scintilla and has support for a myriad of languages.

Answer 7

I often use TextPad.

It supports huge files, multiple files and formatting.

Answer 8

jEdit or Eclipse for me, and the nice thing about those is that if you don't work on windows later you can take them with you to Linux or MacOSX...although you really can't beat the macros in gVim!

Answer 9

Well I would first second Notepad++, generally it has all you want from generic text editor. If you want something more, KomodoEdit is just awesome in that regard. It supports certain languages and it does quite a bit on top of just nice editing. So I would recommend KomodoEdit on top of Notepad++. I personally use them both. I would also like to add that I feel that Mac users, however good TextMate is (and it is), really miss out a lot because they don't really have much choice there. Also, for years I loved to use HTMLEdit.