Best Free Text Editor

by Johnny Karp 14 August 2008 9 Comments

Hello friends, welcome to the Freeware Mission. I have only a few freeware programs left to install and my computer will be working just fine with no commercial software in it. Today I’m going to choose a free text editor. I’m using Notepad too, everybody does, but there are some freeware programs that offer a lot more.

And I think that the best of them is… Notepad++. It’s a text editor but it can be a very useful tool for a programmer. It supports a large number of programming languages offering syntax highlighting and folding.

And there’s better news: the program can be enriched with the dozens of plugins that are available as we speak.

You can download Notepad++ from here, it’s open source!

My Evaluation	9
Operating System	Windows All
Size	2.04 MB
Author	Don HO
Version Tested	5.0.3

Five more episodes to go and the Freeware Mission will reach the peak! On Monday I will publish the list with the programs I installed in my computer to have it working with only freeware programs in it!
I wouldn’t miss that!

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9 Comments »

Dave said:

Right Johnny,the link has been changed to your new one and the blog is looking good

# 14 August 2008 at 8:55 am

Johnny Karp said:

Thanks Dave!

# 14 August 2008 at 10:55 am

Anonymous said:

Never heard of EDXOR ??

# 8 September 2008 at 10:50 am

Anonymous said:

What I’m really missing in notepad++ is a column editor.
CrimsonEditor has that, so I’d recommend CrimsonEditor (now also opensouce project called emeraldEditor) (http://www.emeraldeditor.com / http://www.crimsoneditor.com/)

# 13 September 2008 at 12:20 pm

Wim said:

pspad (http://www.pspad.com/en/) is also a really good one, although closed source, it is updated frequently and the author will listen to good suggestions

# 14 September 2008 at 5:31 am

Jim said:

You can post what you think is the
best text editor at whatUrunning.com

# 15 September 2008 at 11:17 am