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Recommended Text Editors for Win32?

Posted by Cliff on from the vi-emacs-and-notepad.exe-are-not-valid-choices dept.

Dave asks: "I must us a Windows machine at work where I do web development and system administration. I have been looking for a "decent" editor to use on Windows, but thus far have come up short. GVim doesn't do it for me, on linux it's fine, but on Windows it isn't the most stable thing around. I've also tried Windows versions of MicroEmacs and Vile. What do other Slashdot users develop in when they must use a Windows machine?"

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  1. TextPad 32 by km790816 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love this editor.

    Adds itself to the context menu in explorer so you can open anything in it.
    Supports huge files.
    Color codes C++, Java, etc.
    Handles indenting and word-wrap well.
    Has an 'always on top' feature.
    Easy to asign file associations from the UI.

    http://www.textpad.com

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  2. Text editors... by pb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My absolute favorite programming IDE ever was Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0; therefore, I'm a sucker for any editor written in TurboVision, like RHIDE or SetEdit.

    DOS Edit is still pretty decent in the console; on the GUI side, NoteTab is a notepad replacement on steroids (the "Light" version is free).

    If you download Cygwin, you can compile almost any UNIX-y text editor you want, including my favorite--nano.

    And if all else fails, Ask Google!

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