Ask HN: What's your favorite Windows Text Editor?

4 points·chaosprophet··10 comments

Hi guys, I've been developing on Windows for quite some time now. I am using Textpad for all my coding needs, but I find it lacking in some respects (like regex search). So to all you Windows based developers, what text editor do you use and why???

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I use SciTE ( http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html ) at home and UltraEdit ( http://www.ultraedit.com/ ) at work.

My needs are simple: I just need an editor that can handle LF-delimited or CRLF-delimited text and one that has some syntax-assistance ( highlighting, brace-matching, ...etc. )

UltraEdit was chosen by someone else at work. It has a lot of features that I admire, but don't really use. I do enjoy the ability to perform column-oriented copy/paste operations and hex viewing with it, though.

E-TextEditor is pretty nice (http://www.e-texteditor.com/). As a longtime Textmate user on my Mac, I was looking for something to mimic that functionality on my Windows netbook. E also integrates with Cygwin and can be fully customized to your liking.

Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/)

All other editors are dead to me now. Sublime Text is amazing.

$60 for a text editor? Wow!

TextPad has worked fine for me for years. It does have a bit of oddness but, between TextPad, Visual Studio, and SQL Server Management Studio, I've been able to do what I need.

Editplus. Syntax highlighting, Search/Replace with regex on multiple files, Project management, right click integration, and more.

notepad++

Notepad2

emacs

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