Some worthy links:
And some worthy apps:
Some criterion to choose a tool:
- Free or open source
- Storing/exporting to open formats like xml to reuse your work
- State of the art
- One perfect example is yEd for diagrams
Along to the editors bundled with
Eclipse Borland C++ Builder NetBeans Aptana
Almost every programmer
The search for the perfect text editor for a programmer is like
the holy graal quest
In my experience I used
ConTEXT,
Notepad++,
PSPad and now
Sublime text.
and so on
Typically my needs are encoding/line ending,
- PSPad
- Very good scripting support (WSH), I used javascript,
you can do everything with it, very powerful!
- Code explorer, very useful to navigate source (also XML files)
- Code highlighting rules too simple (just keywords list)
- Dark theme applies just on editor area, the rest is up to Windows
- A lot of things I do not use
- Very basic editing features, there is column selection but
no column editing nor smart token highlighting
- Notepad++
- Column editing
- Multiline search and replace
- Smart token highlighting
- Good plugin system, but not so immediate obtain what you want with LUA
- Code highlighting rules does not support regular expressions