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Freeware - Editors - Text

The WebTide text editor is a new free text editor designed to help web developers in creating fast and professional websites. It is also a programmer code text editor. The code navigation is a tool to count on when you seem lost in the code. For the web developers the error checking may turn out to be a key tool. Html is a complex scripting language, and this free text editor is the key to easily creating a website.

KCRtfCreator Component for developers is designed to serve a fast RTF file writer including images, it creates RTF documents with formatted text & graphics and you can save the window image in a file.

PSPad - text and code editor allows you to work on several documents at the same time (MDI) save your session and later reopen all previously opened files. Also features text difference with color-coded differences highlighted, templates (installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,) syntax highlighting auto set by file type and user-defined highlighters for exotic environments. FTP client - you can edit files directly from the web; macro recorder to record, save and load macros; search and replace in files; auto correction; intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla; full HEX editor and lots more.

Fedit is a file editor that can edit many file types and is a great notepad replacement, it has almost all of Notepad's features, and to make up for the ones it doesn't it has extra features.

SafEEditor is a free, barebones plain text editor for use on Windows computers to edit perl and other CGI scripts. SafEEditor saves files in plain text only with Unix line termination and UTF-8 character encoding, making it possible for non-ASCII compatible text to be safely contained within an ASCII compatible format. SafEEditor saves files in plain text only with Unix line termination, keeping them safe for use with various interpreters and compilers that are prone to complaining and halting when they encounter other types of line termination or styled text in scripts or other source code. We originally developed SafEEditor for those of our web hosting customers who were constantly trashing their cgi scripts with Windows Notepad!

TextEdit is a multipurpose text editor with built in wizards, functions, and other features to help web developers create web pages easier, quicker and more effectively. The basic idea of TextEdit was to replace Windows Notepad, which doesn't offer much function-wise. TextEdit's aim was to also provide the user with features to make web development easier and more productive.

Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows that is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied to one floppy disk). While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java. Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.

Text editor with syntax highlighting for Html, XML, C++, CSS, Delphi, Java, Fortran, Foxpro, Java, Javascript, KIX32, Perl, PHP, XQL, Pascal, Visual Basic, Assembly and Initial files. Can read Rich Text Format rtf files. Generates a highlighting effect to make outstanding and readable words with powerful "engine" and "highlighters".

This program makes it easy to browse through text and html/xml files, syntax highlighting for serveral programming languages is available (C++, Pascal, PHP, Perl etc.).

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. Features unlimited open files; unlimited editing file size, 4kB line length; custom defined syntax highlighter; powerful syntax highlighting for 13 programming languages; multilanguage support & much more. Full details on homepage.

TextMorph is a full text editor (like Notepad) except it also does so much more. It can quickly clean up forwarded emails (removing all those ">" signs and so forth), convert text to/from HTML, search/replace text (including mult. paragraphs!), and much much more. It can also repetitively do these tasks across large numbers of files. This makes TextMorph an ideal program for people who work with large numbers of text/HTML files.

SuperEdi is a text editor with syntax coloring and built-in FTP client. The built-in directory tree helps you locate files quickly without opening the Windows Explorer. Context sensitive information is available via keyword lookup in any Windows help file. The editor is extendable using executable programs, text clips and automation scripts. SuperEdi supports Unicode UTF-8, UTF-16 as well as many locale- specific encodings. It is absolutely free of charge for private as well as for commercial users. There are no advertisements, nags or any other limitations.

ProtoPad is a fully customisable front-end to the content management system of your choice. The source code is availible and it can be used with any server scripting language system. ProtoPad is essentially a what-you-see-is-what-you-get rich text editor, designed primarily for webmasters, and anyone who needs to generate content where a lot of the other online editors and text boxes just won't do. This application lets you both generate content and the HTML output in a word processor-styled interface. This is also the perfect application for someone who is interested in Internet Explorer as a development platform. It is basically configured to send its content to an ASP page.However a PHP page, CGI or Perl script could be integrated with the editor, in much the same way a form would. Included then with ProtoPad is a pre-configured ASP page with instructions to use the editor on your website to update your content.

Txpad Plus is a text editor a bit like notepad but it does more than just edit text. it also is a batch editor and is a html editor. You can even edit all different types of script files. There is a preview mode for testing your HTML and Batch files.

EasyEdit is a programmers editor, it offers color coded editing that allows you to expand the supported file types by creating your language with the Language Editor and specifying color properties for the filetype. Full support for advanced search and replace, Bookmark support for jumping through code. Split pane viewing for different views of the same file. Advanced syntax highlighting that is fully customizable and much more!

Use Developer's Notepad in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Studio 97 in the course of your development. Create notes with embedded hot links to your source code. Later, when reviewing the notes, just double click on such a link and MS Visual Studio 97 will open up the source file and position the cursor at the link target. Ideal for planning code changes and communicating within other project members