Free text editor
August 28th, 2007
Looking for good, free text editor? Try Notepad++.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
As its name suggests, it's a Notepad replacement aimed at programmers. I recommended JEdit a while back, but I find JEdit is slow to load and memory hungry. Its interface is also very Java-ish, which seems like a nice change to begin with but after a while it starts to feel clunky and unresponsive and you want to get back to native Windows apps. I still use JEdit for Search/Replace, but Notepad++ is good if you want a decent text editor but don't want to pay for UltraEdit.
Potentially similar posts
- Archived post summaries – June 2011
- Rails Chronicles – Part 1 – June 2011
- Adding your choice of text editor to Flare’s Open With menu – December 2010
- 5 cool Notepad++ tricks – October 2010
- Preventing BBC iPlayer running all the time – November 2008
