| Best Free Text Editor (Source Code Editor) |
 It is not always enough to have a good word processor. Sometimes, depending on your skills, you need a so called “text editor”, or “plain text editor”. That is a tool allowing you to edit plain text files, files that contain no additional information, the so called “meta data”, or text formatting of any kind, such as bold face, italics, font type, and page margins. You can think of a “plain text file” as a simple sheet of paper without the additional information, much as that sheet of paper you got out of an old typewriter. Text editors – plain text editors - are needed when you want to write a file without any formatting or strip a document from all formatting, say if you maintain a blog, and you want to publish a text written in MS Word. You will find it very cumbersome to simply copypaste the word document into a website’s editor – though many provide this option – as all the “meta data” are also inserted, superfluously, because not used. More often than not they will wreck the display of that page. So if you use a word processor to write the text, first copy the text into a plain text editor and then coypaste from the plain text editor into the web editor and do the formatting with your online editor. (Many web editors have a bottom “Paste as Plain Text”, so you will save one step) Also when you open the hood of your machine to look at certain files on your system drive, or if you edit or write php-, html-, css-files, and the like, you will need a text editor. One of the key features of those editors is, they can give you a better display of the content of those file types mentioned above by highlighting the structure and keywords associated with that specific file type. This is called syntax highlighting, an option you don’t want to miss once you’ve got to know it. There are more: auto indentation, auto complete, bracket matching and even syntax check, all of which will greatly facilitate the composition of the mentioned files. If this doesn’t sound familiar to you – that’s OK! The capability of these text editors to serve for programming purposes has gained them another name also: programmers’ editor. For several years now there are quite a few editors available, and we will present you here our choice of the best free text editors. Notepad++
Without doubt, our favourite. It is “Free Software”, meaning you can use it, change it, and distribute it legally and completely free, free as in “free beer” and “free speech” – as they say. |
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Homepage Download |
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/files/ |
System Language |
Windows English, German |
PSPad
PSPad has also been around for years now and is another excellent choice. Its features are greatly comparable to the ones of Notepad++, but there are some remarkable differences which might induce you to have a look.► internal preview of html-documents
► a hex editor
► an inbuilt ftp-client for editing files on the net
► an inbuilt file manager allowing you to browse your drive from within the editor
It may well be your prefer PSPad over Notepad++, and we have no objection. But there’s a solution if you can’t make up your mind: install them both and find out, which one suits your purpose better!
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Homepage Download |
http://www.pspad.com/en/ http://www.pspad.com/en/download.php |
System Sprache |
Windows Deutsch, English |
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