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Return of the Son of the best *free* Windows Text Editor
mrainey:
Has anybody worked with SciTE? It looks to be an open-source text editor with syntax highlighting, regex, column mode, code folding, and lots of other stuff for programmers.
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Tuxman:
SciTE is quite the same as Notepad++, right?
f0dder:
SciTE is quite the same as Notepad++, right?-Tuxman (November 06, 2010, 04:31 PM)
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No.
They both used the Scintilla edit control (SciTE can be thought of as the "demo text editor around Scintilla"), whereas np++ is a completely different editor "shell". Haven't checked up on SciTE for a while, but last time I checked np++ definitely had the better feature set.
Jibz:
There are a few decent editors out there based on Scintilla. Atm I am using Notepad++ for more heavy editing and Notepad2 (thanks app) as my "press F4 to quickly edit a single file from TC" editor. I even have it set up to close when I press Esc :-*.
Since it doesn't support tabs it is not for heavy editing, but as a fast text editor I think it has almost the perfect feature set .. only two things I miss are smart highlighting and an option to make backspace unindent.
Tuxman:
f0dder: Ah, thanks. I thought the engine would make the machine. :)
(Haven't tried SciTE for a while either.)
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