I'm looking for an editor to replace notepad ? Thank you..?

Question

Hello everyone..

I'm using WindowsXP and I'm planning to replace notepad as my default text editor. I'm looking for a nice, full-featured text editor; maybe with spell checker and syntax highlighting capability (in case I write something C++).

Also, since I'm planning to replace the original "notepad.exe", I hope this editor come in a small, self-contained *.exe file (or at least without too many support files). I'm just looking for a small text editor, not a Microsoft Word replacement :D

A freeware would be a HUGE plus.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.. :D

Best regards,
-septerra-

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors



What you want is a "plain text editor". Vim and Emacs are commonly cited (they do have Windows versions available). But there is a learning curve to using them.



You might like Notepad++, PSPad, SciTE, and jEdit. They are very solid editors with a mind towards programmers.

Answer 2

Back when I was first playing around with programming I also wanted this too. Except when I was doing it I wanted transparent and color effects so I turned to one called CrankPad which is very lightweight and has no system requirements. If you want you can go here which has a list of alternatives to NotePad.

Answer 3

I know Excel and MSWord have a "record macro" option, which basically just copies your keystrokes and does them as much as you want. It's arguably better than the VBA, as you then know your doing what you want. If you don't want to pay for MSWord, StarOffice and OpenOffice (both freely available) will do the same thing.

Answer 4

I have enjoyed 'Bloodshed' for a while now.



www.bloodshed.net



I believe it will have everything you need as long as you're really just looking for a text editor anyway...I couldn't tell you much about its compilers.



It also has a whole site dedicated to better programming and the software is free.

Answer 5

http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/



Here it is. As I know, notepad++ knows syntax hilighting for several programming languages. And of course it is freeware, even open source.

Answer 6

why not just switch to wordpad, it comes with windows and is just slightly more featured than notepad

Answer 7

Try TextPad it has great color schemes and several functions and the best part is that its free.



www.textpad.com

Answer 8

editpad http://www.editpadpro.com/

notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Answer 9

Have you tried openoffice.org which is a good non-Microsoft office application