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EDITORS - NOTEPAD REPLACEMENTS - PROGRAMMER/DEVELOPER EDITORS
========================================================PSPad - Jan Fiala - editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems
http://www.pspad.com/"freeware product (both for personal and commercial use)"
Freeware Genius - PSPad: a small, powerful, and versatile freeware text editor
http://www.freewareg...reeware-text-editor/Freeware Junkie
http://thefreewareju...xt-editor-pspad.htmlNotepad2 - Florian Balmer - Open Source (based on Scintilla)
http://www.flos-free...are.ch/notepad2.htmlNotepad2 Modifications - Kai Liu
http://code.kliu.org/misc/notepad2/TED Notepadhttp://www.jsimlo.sk/notepad/"TED Notepad is targeted particularly to users with non-trivial demands and tasks: Those that need to quickly extract info from the text, find duplicate lines or sort them, convert case, replace or reverse something non-trivial, and so on."
Metapad - newly Open Source
http://liquidninja.com/metapad/"metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more."
RJ TextEd - A Unicode source and text editor.
http://www.rj-texted.se/"RJ TextEd is released as FREEWARE. However, if you find the program useful I would appreciate a small donation."
Forum
http://www.rjsoftware.se/Forum/index.phpConTEXT Text Editor - Eden Kirin
http://www.contexteditor.org/Forum
http://forum.contexteditor.org/Win32Pad - Gena01 - Gennady Feldman
http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/Forum
http://www.gena01.com/forum/"It's FREEWARE. Which means that you are allowed to use it for personal or commercial purposes (without selling it of course). You are also allowed to give the program to your friends"
"Win32Pad is a feature filled text editor that is written with a programmer in mind. Its main purpose is to provide enough functionality that is missing from notepad without sacrificing file size and performance."
NoteTab Lite - Fookes Software
http://www.notetab.com/versions.php3 versions .. Pro is $29
Additional tools, most are free
http://www.notetab.com/tools.phpLopeEdit Lite - (Author of FileMenu Tools)
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/index.html QJot - xtort
http://xtort.net/xtort-software/qjot/"Freeware. For the masses. ... QJot is a small USB portable alternative rich text editor that reads and writes .doc files, inserts images and more. It is basically meant to serve as a good WordPad replacement."
Xint - xtort
http://xtort.net/xtort-software/xint/SubPad - xtort
http://xtort.net/xtort-software/subpad/"no-install USB compatible lightweight notepad clone .. faster find/replace, MRU documents, and syntax highlighting ... find/replace routine is perhaps one of the fastest out there."
TabPad - Michael Dickens
http://www.lfi.net/LFI/prjTP.htm"LFI.net (Opensource and/or freeware) Applications .. Donations are appreciated, but the programs, tutorials and services provided by LFI.net will always remain free."
"TabPad is yet another Notepad clone - except with tabs."
PlainEdithttp://www.gaijin.at/en/dlplainedit.php"PlainEdit is a text editor for ANSI and ASCII files. Syntax highlighting is supported for the most common Web, script and programming languages. Many functions for text conversion, formatting, decoding and encoding are included."
License: Royalty free (Donate button)
NotePad++ - Open Source (based on Scintilla)
http://notepad-plus....orge.net/uk/site.htmForum (a bit of a mess, indicating project may be fully ended)
http://sourceforge.n...orum/?group_id=95717============
JAVA
Eclipsehttp://www.eclipse.org/IDE - Various projects and plugins and extensions
Jedit - Java
http://www.jedit.org/"free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0."
Forums
http://community.jedit.org/?q=forumJhttp://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/Mailling lists
http://sourceforge.n...mail/?group_id=55057"J is a text editor written in Java and distributed under the GNU General Public License."
Arachnophilia- Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid...chnophilia/index.php"In CareWare ... "Anything except money" ... So here is my deal: stop whining for an hour, a day, a week, your choice, and you will have earned your copy of Arachnophilia. Say encouraging words to young people, make them feel welcome on the planet Earth (many do not). Show by example that we don't need all we have in order to be happy and productive "
Arachnophilia 4.0 - legacy pre-Java version
http://www.arachnoid...hilia/index_old.html============
MORE PROGRAMMER-EDITOR ORIENTED THAN NOTEPAD REPLACEMENT
(this division is very rough, any division-tweaking help is appreciated)
SourceEdit SourceEdit - Brixoft
http://www.brixoft.net/default.aspForums (light activit)
http://www.brixoft.net/forum.asp"Brixoft Source Edit is a FREE award winning editor especially made for developers. It has syntax highlighters for all the most common computer languages and if you miss one you easily create your own with the built-in Language Editor."
Lifehacker - SourceEdit is a Beefy Text Editor for Programmers
http://lifehacker.co...itor-for-programmers"Brixoft File Courier is a FTP client application distributed together with Source Edit ... HexSource is a free hex editor that is distributed together with Source Edit. The source code is available and distributed according to the GNU license agreement."
Programmer's Notepad - Echo Software - Simon Steele - Open Source - (based on Scintilla, as are some above)
http://www.pnotepad.org/Licensing -
http://www.pnotepad.org/licensing/Forums
http://pnotepad.org/forums/Open Komodo Open Source GNU, and IDE component
http://www.openkomodo.com/Mailman Archive Forum (2008) Inactive -
http://lists.openkom...m/pipermail/mailman/ - Check others
"very impressive professional editor for dynamic languages" - Smashing Magazine 35 Useful Source Code Editors
Komodo Edit (developers of Komodo IDE)
http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/Mailing Lists (komodo-discuss)
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Crimson Editorhttp://www.crimsoneditor.com/ (shows nice list of nine other editors with short description)
Email forum
http://tech.groups.y...rimson_editor_users/Emerald Editorhttp://www.emeraldeditor.com/Forum
http://forum.emeraldeditor.com/"Emerald Editor is (being) designed to be an open-source multi-purpose, functional text editor, inspired heavily by Crimson Editor. It is available under the GNU General Public License."
Developers direction after Crimson Editor source code was releases
http://forum.emerald...ndex.php?topic=235.0Scriptlyhttp://scriptly.webo...art/englishpage.html"Webocton - Scriptly is an extensive freeware code editor for writing HTML and programming with PHP."
Forum - German
http://community.web...on.de/main/index.phpTotalEdit http://www.codertools.com/totaledit.aspx"TotalEdit is free for commercial and non-commercial purposes (its freeware)." Pro is $10
Html-Kit http://www.chami.com/html-kit/Forum
http://www.html-kit..../hkforum.cgi?g=hbeta"HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it .. "
Bluefish Editorhttp://bluefish.open....nl/development.html"Bluefish is an open source project, released under the GNU GPL licence."
New releases, mailing lists, not sure which are active.
AlleyCodehttp://www.alleycode.com/"Alleycode is a fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML editor with unique features ... Alleycode is FREE! (we do accept donations if you find it useful)."
Visual Web Developer Express 2008 (above)will has an HTML editor integrated in the package. The free Visual Studio edition also contains an editor.
HateML Prohttp://www.migajek.com/?c=hatemlForums
http://migajek.com/myBB/"HateML Pro is freeware product and a powerful PHP IDE with support for XHTML and CSS for both professional and novice users alike. Designed to help accelerate the process of editing,debugging web applications, php scripts and simple XHTML sites as well."
Dev-PHPhttp://devphp.sourceforge.net/Forum
http://sourceforge.n...orum/?group_id=54728"Dev-PHP is a well-featured integrated development environment (IDE). You'll be able to create scripts and applications using the PHP scripting language and the PHP-GTK library (both included in the "PHP Package").
Dev-PHP is free software under the GNU General Public License"
Editor is one part of the project.
CodePad (2006)
http://shicola.wz.cz...codepad/features.php"CodePad may be used free of charge, but if you wish to express your appreciation for the time and resources the author have expended developing and supporting it over the years, I do accept and appreciate donations."
FlashDevelop - Open Source
http://www.flashdeve....php?title=Main_PageForum
http://www.flashdeve.../community/index.php"FlashDevelop is a free and open source (MIT license) source code editor."
Geany - Linux heritage
http://www.geany.org/Main/HomePage "Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment... To run Geany under Windows you may need to install the GTK+ runtime libraries"
InType (Alpha)
http://intype.info/home/index.phpForum
http://intype.info/forums/"Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins."
SciTE http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html===================
VIM & Emacs heritage (Unix)
Vim the Editor Bram Moolenaar - (Unix-legacy .. see DonationCoder comments)
http://www.vim.org/index.php forum, wiki
See gVim, the graphic interface.
"Vim is distributed free as charityware. If you find Vim a useful addition to your life please consider helping needy children in Uganda."
Cream - Open Source
http://cream.sourceforge.net/"A modern configuration of the powerful and famous Vim, Cream is now available for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD."
WinVi - Raphael Molle.
http://www.winvi.de/en/"WinVi is a free editor for MS Windows. ... This editor is especially useful for friends of the Vi editor, who do not want to give up the little conveniences offered by Windows."
XEmacshttp://www.xemacs.org/Usenet and mailing lists
http://www.xemacs.org/Lists/index.htmlGNU Emacs http://www.gnu.org/s...are/emacs/emacs.htmlGNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
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SPECIAL-USE
Ini-Beast - Funkytoad
http://www.funkytoad...c3ca2e53ad16cc549ad4" Long time Shareware turned Freeware (with the optional "donate so my cat has good food" button).
And what we have here is a very cool Ini File editor - enjoy."
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REGISTRY EDITORS
O&O Registry Editorhttp://oo-software.c...regeditor/index.html"Changing or creating system and program settings belongs to the daily routine of every Administrator. The O&O RegEditor makes working with the registration database significantly easier"
Regalyzer - Safer Networking (suthors of Spybot Search & Destroy)
"RegAlyzer is a tool to browse and change the registry. It was created because of a few features we missed in the original regedit tool...we would appreciate it if you would honor our efforts with a moderate donation"
Forum
http://forums.spybot...forumdisplay.php?f=6Registry Explorer - Vilma Software - Bulgaria
http://www.vsft.com/products.htm"Registry Explorer is a powerful tool that will give to you the easiest way to rule all aspects of your system. You can create new keys and values, add them to the registry, or delete the existing ones."
Eula, contact check would be be helpful, especially on the last two.
Registrar Lite from Resplendence is available in an earlier nag-free version from Major Geeks.
Regseeker from Hovercraft, is free for personal use only.
RegSafe - by ImagineLan, unclear if free or paid software.
Registry Commander is 2003 defunct.,
Best Free Registry Editor
http://www.techsuppo...-registry-editor.htmThese next softwares I think are all designed for use with RegEdit.
RegEditX - Tweaks for the Windows Registry Editor (REGEDIT)
http://www.dcsoft.com/products/regeditx/"RegEditX 2.0 is FREE. RegEditX Gold (not yet available) will be a reasonably priced superset of RegEditX 2.0."
RegScanner - NirSoft - find/search in the Registry of Windows
http://www.nirsoft.n...tils/regscanner.html(Be careful to skip the link to "Regtool")
Registry Jumper - Eolsoft
http://www.eolsoft.c...are/registry_jumper/"Registry Jumper is absolutely free - no nag screens, no ads, no spyware, no time limit."
"Registry Jumper is a small utility that makes system registry navigation easier."
Programmers/admins looking for a personal commercial registry editor - Registry Workbench from Torchsoft is a Wilder's favorite, and there is the Resplendence full version of Registrar Registry Manager. RegCOPA is another possibility.
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EditPad Lite - personal, non-commercial use. (by PowerGrep author Jan Goyvaerts)
PolyEdit Lite - professional version is for commecial purposes
Donationcoder Thread - Best Text Editor
https://www.donation...extEditor/index.htmlDiscussion threads
https://www.donation...index.php?board=30.0And UltraEdit can be considered the programmer's commercial package leader, with EditPlus having many fans as well. Since it is unlikely that everyone in your company will need a programmer's editor, the pricing situation may still be light. E-Editor is also well liked, and has at least a partial open source direction, so that part of the project may be added to this list.
Cybernetnews on UltraEdit
http://cybernetnews....dit-review-giveaway/35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed - Smashing Magazine - May 2008
http://www.smashingm...de-editors-reviewed/25 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed
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