Notepad ++

[Jon855]

It's really great for programming and it's free...

Give it a try... Notepad ++

 

[duragezic]

:beer: for open source programs!

There really has been a very nice assortment of good as hell open-source software in the past few years that easily replaces commercial equivalents.

 

[statik213]

i've always used:
http://www.context.cx/

 

[statik213]

ok, i tried notepad++ looks nice

 

[phaxmohdem]

Yeah, thanks! I've actually been looking for an advanced text editor for some time. This is perfect :beer: for you!

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: duragezic
:beer: for open source programs!

There really has been a very nice assortment of good as hell open-source software in the past few years that easily replaces commercial equivalents.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[itachi]

used it for a while.. until it became apparent that it wasn't releasing the file-locks properly (this was with v3.1). might not be the case now.. but that was enough to make me go back to using emacs as a notepad replacement.

 

[igowerf]

Yep. I've been using it for a while. It has some weird issues with collapsing XML trees, but other than that, it's great.

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

It is one of the first programs I load after an install.

 

[SinNisTeR]

I love np++. A must have in any system!

 

[pkananen]

been using it for a while..only thing i don't like is when it takes context sensitive text (like java comments) and changes the size of the font

 

[Jon855]

Originally posted by: pkananen
been using it for a while..only thing i don't like is when it takes context sensitive text (like java comments) and changes the size of the font

I've npoticed this but I do like this. I guess this boils down to personal prefs.

 

[Nothinman]

<3 gvim

 

[CrackaLackaZe]

Only thing that I wish it had is the auto tabbing functionality that can be found with emacs. For example in this snippet of code:

1 while (!done) {
2 //do something
3 }

Regardless of how where the first non empty character on line 2 is, if you just hit tab in emacs, it will automatically move it exactly 2 (or otherwise specified) spaces to the right of the first non empty character on line 1. And when you add the } on line 3, it moves the } back 2 to match the opening {.

What's that called btw? There's gotta be a name for that functionality.