Comments on: PC Text Editors – Which team do you follow?

By: Khaleel

Khaleel — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:16:55 +0000

So many NotePad++ fans.. I used to use it myself. I found it slow and less flexible in terms of switching between design/preview modes..

I use Dreamweaver CS3 and CS4 in Web Developer App Plus (Windows > Views > Panels > App Developer Plus) and I will never go back.. its brilliant! Even got loads of free reference dictionaries that come free and standard with Dreamweaver

By: Austinkir

Austinkir — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:51:19 +0000

I have never had PSpad crash on me… what were you doing?

By: Elle

Elle — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:15:58 +0000

Another one for Notepad++ as freebie app

I also used intype which reminded me of Textmate — but last I tried still needed more work.

Lastly, e-editor supposed to be TextMate on Windows.

But I guess all my suggestions have already been mentioned

By: David

David — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:23:41 +0000

I was in your position about 4 years ago and can identify with your frustration at all the half-built software on the PC. I’ve tried just about every free text editor on the PC and can tell you that ConText is the last editor you’re going to use.

ConText has no bloat or dumb-down helper features. It has a clean simple interface with language highlighting, behaviour options, custom hot-keyed templates and a command line interface for hotkeyed debug, compling and execution. What more could you want? Maybe and FTP but, FileZilla covers that exceptionally well.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:50:49 +0000

TextPad for me – actually paid the licence fee – now there’s committment!

Tried NotePad++ could never quite get the hang of it.

Tried Apana but seems OTT when all you want is a simple text editor.

By: michelangelo

michelangelo — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:32:14 +0000

My vote for Notepad ++. By the way, it also comes in a portable version.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:29:53 +0000

TextPad+ (that’s a vote for TextPad

By: xtfer

xtfer — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:33:50 +0000

+1 for Notepad++

Not as good as textmate, but nearly there…

By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:26:56 +0000

Have a look at NoteTab. I’m using the free (Light) version and it’s great.
Has a really powerful search & replace functionality (can also search & replace based on Regular Expressions). apparently has syntax highlighting but I’ve never bothered to use it… It’s fast and has multi document tabs.
http://www.notetab.com

By: Sugar

Sugar — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Amen. E is the absolute text editor for the Mac user that has gone the Textmate way, but must use Windows for a living.

It’s a bit uglier than Textmate, granted, but it’s very useful and handy to use, eventhough it’s still a bit buggy in some areas.

There are very often updates though, with many bugfixes. It quickly took the place of Dreamweaver in my heart, and I’ll never look back.