Thursday, March 10, 2011

Free Portable Text Editors

 EditPadLite is really a light editor with tabs. It can convert case (upper to lower and lower to upper), convert as initial caps and invert case. It can also convert the carriage return codes for Windows, Unix and Mac. It can also manually or automatically indent the text.
PSPad has its own file explorer and is more sophisticated than Edit Pad Lite.
Notepad++ is a fully featured editor with many fantastic features. It supports almost all major programming languages/scripts. There is also an official tutorial for it. Features I like include search among all the opened files, block editing, highlighting all appearances when a word is selected etc.
Kudaz is an editor for programmers and supports highlighting/auto-indentation for most major languages/scripts.
Extreme Editor is also for programmer, with neat user interface.
Note Tab Lite is a replacement of notepad and capable of HTML editing.
Firstobject XML editor, as it's title suggests, is for XML or HTML editing.
vi, on the other hand, is an almost obsolete, but very handy editor, for those who are used to its compact interface. vim.org has resources for all platforms, including Unix, PC (MS-DOS and MS-Windows), Amiga, OS/2, Macintosh and some other operating systems. All necessary executable files or related documents can be downloaded from this site.
Freesoft 100 (in Japanese) gives a list of free text editors.
Wikipedia gives a list of text editors, both commercial and free ones, also covering operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS-X, BeOS. Java based on editors should run on any platforms with Java virtual machine support.

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