Updated: 12/29/2005
Editors
!!Editors
Table of editor features
Namesyntax
highlight?
clip
library?
sort text? encryp-
tion?
spell check? Compiler
integration?
Abiword n n n n Y
AnyeditYYYnnY
Backedit Y Y n n n
Bhaum n Y n n n
Context YYYY
Credit n n n n Y
Crimson Y Y Y
CrypteditYnYYY
DevpadYY
Editpad Classic n n n n n
Essay Y Y n n n
Multipad n n n Y n
Notespad n Y Y n Y
Notetab Lite n Y Y n n (pro only)
Odaat Y
PFE Y Y n n n
PolyeditnYYYYn
ProtonY
Quickedit n n Y n n
RedbackYY
SciTE Y n n n n
Smalltex6Y
Stratus pad Y
Sushi Y n n n n Y
Synth 17 Y n n n n
TeraeditYY
Textpad YYY
VIM Y
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Abiword , 3,400kb , Rating: 4
The Open Source, Cross-Platform Word Processor. AbiWord is a lean and fast full-featured word processor. It works on Windows and most Unix Systems. It is safe and easy to download and install. Features include: Basic character formatting (bold, underline, italics, etc.), Paragraph alignment, Spell-check, Import of Word97 and RTF documents, Export to RTF, Text, HTML, and LaTeX formats, Interactive rulers and tabs, Styles, Unlimited undo/redo, Multiple column control, Widow/orphan control, Find/Replace, Images. (This looks very good.) [Report a dead link]
http://www.abisource.com/

AnyEdit
Free IDE editor for Windows.

Syntax Highlighting
AnyEdit supports powerful and customizable syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, JSP, VBScript by default. Also, you can create your own syntax file to support other programming languages. More language syntaxes are available on File Listing.

Workspace - Projects
AnyEdit supports creation of workspaces and users can add projects to workspaces. Projects can contain files and folders which makes it very easy to manage multiple files, projects and folders at a time.

Plugin Support
AnyEdit's plugin support makes it easier to add on new components and extend the functionality of AnyEdit. The user can customise AnyEdit according to his needs by adding plugins that exist and by developing new plugins.

Code Completion - Intellisense like technology
AnyEdit supports code completion - Intellisense like technology which can be found in Microsoft VC++ or VB. Users can define their own syntax files for Code completion. Make code completion technology to complete the keyword that you want to type... by pressing ctrl+space. It also has code tips which give details about the parameters to be passed to a particular method.

Auto Completion
Auto-completion is a time-saving feature which changes a short abbreviation into a complete string. You can create your own auto-completion file to support any programming language. Checkout the files section for user contributions for Auto Completion and Code Completion.

Templates - Projects & Documents
Template feature for projects and documents offers a quick start when you create a new project or document. You can easily create your own template and add on to AnyEdit.

Clip Text Window
The cliptext window is collection of text clips for quick and easy access. You can easily customize them, and you can also create your own cliptext file. Clip text also allows parameters to be used within the syntax making it simpler and easier to generate repetative steps with different parameters.

User Defined Tools
AnyEdit supports user-defined tools, help files. The output of tool execution can be captured in the Output Window, so that you can double-click the error line to automatically load the file and locate the cursor to that line.

Other Features
Line number, column selection, powerful search and replace, multiple undo/redo, customizable keyboard shortcuts,Visible display of tabs and spaces, Auto-indent, Bookmarking capabilities, Advanced edit commands, format commands,cool WinXP like menus and much much more. [Report a dead link]
http://www.anyedit.org/

Atlantis Nova
Freeware version of WP. Supports Word documents, RTF, and more. Spell checker. [Report a dead link]
http://www.rssol.com/en/html/export/main.htm

Backedit
With syntax highlighting for any language. Requires MS IE 4+, MS XML 3.0, MS VBScript 5+ and the MS script control. Integrated IE browser, scriptable editor, integrated XML editor, quick code fragments, favourite directories, favourite help files. Open up to 10 documents. Comes with predefined highlighters (html, pascal, asp etc.); auto-completion, (dropdown) completion-proposal; Directory wide tools for: file flags, find, replace, thumbnails, etc. NEW: Script debugger, Quick Edit, User menu, Retain Multi Document settings, improved completion proposal. Document templates. Tabbed interface.

PROS: Supports regexp in find and replace. Define your own menu items. You can preview HTML files in the browser tab.

CONS: Still a little buggy. You can't set the default open file directory. Using code clips not documented. No way to sort code sections or code snippets. No shortcut keys for many menu items (underlined ALT keys). Right clicking on a code snippet and choosing update does not do anything. Clicking Add also does nothing. No extensions listed in the Save As dialog box. It should default to TXT. Export to RTF does not do anything. Nor does Export to HTML. [Report a dead link]
http://www.jansfreeware.com/jfeditors.htm

Bhaum , 839kb
Bhaum is a 32-bit text/HTML editor and simple RTF viewer (text-only). It is scheduled to be the eventual text-based HTML editor for professionals. Its major features are as follows : Loads files larger than 64KB in size. Loads not only plain text (.txt) but rich text (.rtf) documents. ( RTF auto-detection and conversion : text-only ). Enhanced MRU Files List. Flexible toolbars. Auto-indent. Prefix, Suffix. Cliptext Window for quick access to text snippets (pre-defined HTML 3.2/4.0 elements and attributes, CSS Level 1 and 2, font faces, special chatacters, quotes and brackets). Line-trimming (leading and/or trailing spaces). Auto copy. Auto paste. Current file path/name copy. Multi-line indent, -unindent. External file content insertion. HTML tag-stripping. New Page Generator, Anchor Generator, Font Customizer, Form Generator, Frameset Generator, List Generator, Table Diagram (on-the-spot table creation), Table Generator, Input Custmizer. Character case manipulation (upper-case, lower-case, Capitalization, Inversion), On-the-spot file deletion. Date/time insertion (from 6 formats). Reload (Quick open) available. Automatic HTML line-breaker (<BR>) insertion. External java script, style sheet insertion. Smart image, location insertion. It can send currently editing HTML document to the user's default external web browser or an external one chosen by the user. Can save a portion of text as a new file. Can move and/or rename current file. And more...
Nickie Keem nkeem@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/nkeem
http://www.geocities.com/nkeem/download/bhm122.zip [Report a dead link]
http://www.geocities.com/nkeem

CDEdit
Tabbed text editor with sidebar list of directories and files. [Report a dead link]
http://www.govst.edu/users/gsmpati/delphi/
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Cnotepad
Cetus CNotePad is an enhanced implementation of Windows 95 Notepad. CNotePad provides the basic functionality of Notepad, as well as a MULTIPLE DOCUMENT interface (MDI), a SPELL CHECKING function, and a more complete Help file. PLEASE NOTE: THIS FREEWARE PROGRAM IS NO LONGER BEING FORMALLY DISTRIBUTED, AND NO SUPPORT FOR IT WILL BE PROVIDED. [Report a dead link]
http://www.cetussoft.com/freeware.htm

Context , 1,020kb , Rating: 5, Editor's Pick
Freeware editor. Unlimited open files, unlimited editing file size length, 4kB line length, powerful syntax highlighting for C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, 80x86 assembler, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, user defineable syntax highlighter, project workspaces, compiler integration, multilanguage support and many many more features. Text sort, can make multiple columns on a page, macros, bookmarks, code templates. [Report a dead link]
http://www.fixedsys.com/context/

Credit , credit_1009.zip, 610kb
FREE. Win 9x. Text editor with spell checker. Only saves as txt file.
* Multi-document (MDI) tabbed window interface.
* Active scripting support.
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
* Output Pane window displaying the captured results of tools execution.
* Configurable editor options (tab size, cursor shape, backup file creating, visible right margin etc).
* Configurable user tools with output capturing and error parsing.
* Configurable syntax colorization for user-defined languages.
* Configurable editing and printing fonts, colors etc.
* Configurable file filters for the file open dialog.
* Notification/reload of documents changed by external programs.
* Several sets of bookmarks and brace matching.
* Line numbers.
* Column selections.
* Windows tab bar and Windows manager.
* Printing and print preview.
* Online, context-sensitive help.
* Drag-and-drop editing.
* Regular expressions search and replace.
* Many other features, like auto-sensing of the document file type (DOS, Mac or Unix), opening of multiple files at once, … [Report a dead link]
http://www.praven3.com/credit/

Crimson Editor , 875kb , Rating: 5
Freeware professional editor with syntax highlighting (and define your own), Other features include undo/redo, user tools, macros (record and play), spell checker, directory tree window, find and replace, print and print preview with defineable footers and headers, highlight matching pairs (parens, brackets, etc), multi-file tabbed interface, and more. 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. Also join and split lines, macros, change case, add comment line. This now supports regex in search and replace, evaluate expression on line (calculator). [Report a dead link]
http://crimsoneditor.com/

CryptEdit
Crypt Edit is one of the most powerful freeware word processors. It is a nice replacement for the standard Windows NotePad and WordPad. Crypt Edit requires Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98/2000 or Windows NT 4.0 or later to run. No additional DLLs or whatever are required. It can easily create, protect, modify, post and print your documents:
* Enhanced cryptography features: 3 security levels (RC4, MD5)
* Binary files encrypting with compression
* Full OLE Objects support
* Several configurable toolbars
* Spell Checking
* Multi-Language Interface
* Html/Unix/Mac export
* Templates and bookmarks
* Integrated e-mail client with an address book
* Built-in Clipboard Viewer
* Advanced editing
* Fast start and small program size
* Print Preview
* Find in Files
* Various converters (Uppercase, Lowercase, ROT-13, KOI-8 etc.)
* Drag'n'Drop Interface
* Microsoft Word Compatible (Export/Import/Ole Automation)
* Installation/Uninstallation
* Multiple documents in one instance of the program
* AutoFormat
* Y2K Compliant
* Html Highlighting
* Unlimited file size
* Zoom In/Out
* Lines sorting operations. WARNING: ONLY SORTS WHOLE FILE, NOT SELECTED TEXT.
* Plug-ins support
* Character map
* Several numbering and underline styles
* Microsoft Mouse Wheel Compatible

Alt site: http://my.genie.co.uk/alnet/crypt.htma [Report a dead link]
http://polyedit.com/

Cwordpad
Like Windows Wordpad but with a spell checker, thesaurus, and more complete help file. [Report a dead link]
http://www.cetussoft.com/freeware.htm

Devpad
Syntax highlighting, indent, outdent, comment, uncomment, unlimited language support for syntax highlighting, code library, project view, find and replace, print preview, templates, add-in support. Standard add ins: Icon editor, class spy, COM explorer (find all classes and functions of any COM component), Find code (on codehound.com), DLL base address generator, doc info. [Report a dead link]
http://www.developerspad.com/devpad/

Digita Wordworth
The World's most popular Amiga word processor is now available for Windows. Wordworth is a graphical word processor that lets you create imaginative and inspiring documents. Auto Librarian(TM) corrects errors as you type and lets you store text from documents and easily recall it at any time. Draw lines, boxes, circles, ovals, arcs, freehand lines, polygons, regular polygons, floating text frames and picture frames directly on the page. Reg Number: 4759034 [Report a dead link]
http://rbt.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/freeware/wordproc/ww1a.zip

Editpad classic
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http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadclassic.html

EGPad , 279kb
Text editor. Unlimited Undo, Find, Replace. Tab view is optional, split view, edit same file in different windows, file size limit is 16mb, save blocks of text to disk, insert file at cursor, up to 10 bookmarks per file, print whole doc or just a block, strip HTML tags, change case, invert case, proper case, easy insertion of accented characters, insert date/time stamps, self contained generation of full user's manual. [Report a dead link]
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eitang/myinfo.htm

Empire WP
TXT and RTF editor. Doc size up to 10MB, search and replace, full font support, macros. [Report a dead link]
http://users.skynet.be/hellfire/wordprocessor.htm

Essay
Essay is a TXT, RTF and HTML Editor .Features: two editor panes; quick insert HTML (or any other) tags; Drop-down-select HTML tag attributes; favourite directories; Integral HTML 3.2 off-line browser and previewer; drag-and-drop files,links; one-click HTML help file creation including auto-marking of new topics. Database mode. Site Wizard: one-button-click creation of a 100+ documents website from a SiteScript, with complete site navigation and user defineable header. Extract Links and Targets from multiple documents. ReOpen recent files. Highlight HTML. Translate words. Includes syntax highlighter. Password: 127am. [Report a dead link]
http://www.jansfreeware.com/jfeditors.htm

Extreme Pad
ExtremePad v2.01 is a free, powerful text editor with many useful features and tools including: Much more... SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 95,98,NT,ME & possibly 2000 (I haven't tested ExtremePad on Win2000 yet.), 1 MB of free disk space
Blake Birkenfeld ktbbirk@hiplains.net
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~epgames/extremepad.html http://tucows.whc.net/files4/xtremepad.exe [Report a dead link]
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~epgames/
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Ez Edit , 136kb
Edit multiple files at once. [Report a dead link]
http://under1mb.tripod.com/cgi-bin/template.cgi?utilenha.txt

FED
DOS, Win32, Linux. Folding editor. [Report a dead link]
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/fed/

Frhed , 250kb
Free hex editor. Very good. [Report a dead link]
http://www.kibria.de/

FTE
Folding Text Editor. DOS, Win32, and others. Hide sections of text/code to make your file easier to navigate. Actual file contents is unaffected. [Report a dead link]
http://fte.sourceforge.net

Gognols
Gognols Editor is an enhanced replacement for the Windows 95 Notepad. It provides the basic functionality of a simple editor, plus it features a multiple document interface (MDI), HTML functions, French and Spanish accents management, easy shortcuts (like those in Borland's programming editors), and a host of HTML wizards. Gognols Editor is "postcardware," meaning that it requests a postcard and/or feedback but no money. This is an international version. [Report a dead link]
http://www.webattack.com/

Hexcellent
Hex, rtf, text editor. [Report a dead link]
http://www.torry.net/othereditors.htm

INI Edit
Displays an INI file as a tree. [Report a dead link]
http://www.torry.net/othereditors.htm

Jarte
An RTF editor with print preview, spell checker, tabbed interface, supports Word 95 DOC files, and more. [Report a dead link]
http://www.jarte.com/features.html

jGrasp
Folding text editor with syntax highlighting. Also at http://www.eng.auburn.edu/grasp/. [Report a dead link]
http://www.esperan.com/jgrasp.html

Leo
Leo is an outlining editor and supports literate programming and works with noweb and WEB.

# A data organizer for web sites and other complex data. Leo outlines can generate complex data spanning many different files.
# A project manager. Leo provides multiple views of a project within a single outline. Leo naturally represents tasks that remain up-to-date.
# Portable. Leo runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X Jaguar.
# 100% pure Python. Leo uses Tk/tcl to draw the screen.
# Fully scriptable using Python. Leo's outline files are XML format. [Report a dead link]
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html

Metapad 3.5
Auto indent, recent files list, block indent/unindent, supports multiple languages. [Report a dead link]
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

Multipad
A password-protected, encrypted notepad. Allows multiple notes organised in a cascaded tree list, double-clicking of URLs and selectable fonts and word-wrap for each note. Notes can also be linked to an external file when you create them, allowing you to use MultiPad to group and edit external text files. External HTML files are displayed as web pages in the MultiPad edit window. FREE. http://www.freewarearena.com/text.html [Report a dead link]
http://www.downlinx.com/proghtml/64/6451.htm

Notebark
Tree-type notepad. [Report a dead link]
http://bark.hypermart.net

Notespad , 1,000kb
Another freeware editor. Note: sometimes clips are deleted from the clips toolbar button. [Report a dead link]
http://www.newbie.net/NotesPad/notespad_32.html

Notetab lite , 1,506kb
Text macros, dictionaries, tabbed interface, more. Lite version does not print line numbers to printer. [Report a dead link]
http://www.notetab.ch/ntl.htm

Penpal , 39kb
Simple text editor with search and replace, wrapping, variable margins, and special features like centering text on a line. [Report a dead link]
http://www.mountain-software.com/freeware.htm

PFE , Editor's Pick
PFE is one of the best editors around. It has versions for Win 3.1 and Win 9x. It supports macros, templates, split and join lines (rewrap), syntax highlighting (not programmable), and prints 2 pages on one with no add-on programs! click here to search for PFE. Also at: http://www.webattack.com/get/pfe.shtml, http://www.zbottech.com/c/ed/22.htm. [Report a dead link]
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/

Polyedit
Supports TXT, RTF and encrypted RTF files (ETF). You do not have to type in password every time you save an encrypted document, like Cryptedit. RTF supports the standard features, also strikeout, indent/unindent, highlight, color of text, bullets, line spacing, insert page break. Measurements in metric only. Supports Ultimashell, which contains autocompletion, multiple languages, snippets, text sorting, spell checking, plug-ins, ROT13, tabs to spaces, spaces to tabs, change background color of editor, insert pictures and objects. English dictionary is very good. [Report a dead link]
http://www.polyedit.com

Proton
Source code editor, highlights 30 different languages. [Report a dead link]
http://www.meybohm.de/proton.html

PSPad , Editor's Pick
(Looks very good. ed)
# work with projects
# unlimited length of edited text files
# work on several documents at the same time (MDI)
# Save desktop session to later reopen all open files
# FTP client - you can edit files directly from the web
# macro recorder to record, save and load macros
# search and replace in files
# text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
# templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...)
# installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,...
# syntax highlighting auto set by file type
# user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
# auto correction
# full HEX editor
# call external programs, different for each environment
# external compiler with catch command output, log window, log parser for each environment for "IDE" effect
# color syntax highlight printing and print preview
# integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
# integrated free version of top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
# export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format into file or clipboard
# column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ...
# reformat and compress HTML code, tags char case change
# line sorting with ability to sort on defined column, with option to drop duplicates
# ASCII chart with HTML entities
# Code explorer for Pascal, INI, HTML, XML, PHP, and more in future
# spell checker
# internal web browser with APACHE support
# matching bracket highlighting [Report a dead link]
http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html

Quick Edit
Edit files of unlimited size, quick access to accented characters, auto indent, word wrap, also sorting, search and replace, undo/redo. [Report a dead link]
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/qe.htm

Red
Another text editor: prepend/append text to every line, list of commonly used folders, create tab-delimited files with lists of filenames, find feature, transparent mode (Win 2000/XP only), always on top mode. [Report a dead link]
http://freebask.homestead.com/red.html

Redback editor
The Redback text Editor is a freeware utitlty for everyone, features syntax highlighting for OOP programming, HTML text. It has templates for HTML and Pas files, use as an editor for ini and batch files or any text based file. It has a simple file manager which can be toggled on/off, simple spell checker courtesy of Jan Verhoeven at http://www.jansfreeware.com, find/replace function, text highlight, alternate font, print preview, generate RTF and HTML files (it becomes a simple WSIWYG editor without images etc.), several levels of undo/redo and basic help file included. [Report a dead link]
http://www.torry.net/texteditors.htm

SciTE , 340kb
Scintilla text editor designed for editing source code. 100% free, available for Windows and Linux (under Gnome, I think). It supports syntax coloring for C, C++. C#, VB, Resouce, VBScript, JavaScript, Java, SQL, XML, HTML, Python, Perl, batch files, Makefile, diff, Apache conf, LaTeX, PHP and others. Regexp search and replace. Code completion, [Report a dead link]
www.scintilla.org

Slayer's Editor
Slayer's Editor is a file editor that has syntax highlighters for over 30 different programming languages and has also on the fly highlighting for all of them. In addition in can manage different types of files at the same time. Also it has built in support for RTF files and has a toolbar with formating operations regarding them. The support for RTF files is build around RICHED20.DLL making the editor able to even add objects to the file. [Report a dead link]
http://www.torry.net/texteditors.htm

Smalltex6
SmallTex 6 is for writing, viewing and printing your Plain Text files. Documents can be up to 2Mb characters long. Basic Font and background colour are user defineable. Command line files are automatically loaded. Intended as Notepad replacement for long files. Quick Loading. Favourite: directories, files and Tipfiles; Quick insert Tips combobox; Tips can have caret position and seltext embracing, allowing use as HTML editor. Help file included. Insert Date and Time. Quick preview of HTML document in your standard browser; directory wide text replacement, User menu. NEW: Find and Replace text with Regular Expressions using meta-characters. [Report a dead link]
http://jansfreeware.com/jfeditors.htm

Spine Edit , spntxt16.zip, 2,229kb
FREE text editor for Win 95/98 with spell checker. [Report a dead link]
http://www.c-spine.com/classicSpine/software/spineText.html

Stratus pad editor , stratus21.zip, Rating: 5
Win 9x. FREE text editor with RTF support, spell checker, more. Easy to use, good set of features, and free. V2.1 is shareware with a 30 day limit. V1.1 is freeware. Get 1.1 here: http://www.ealoha.com/eafree.htm. [Report a dead link]
http://www.cybrens.com/sttp/

SuperEdi
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.

SuperEdi offers many unique features such as * HTML document creation, HTML preview * Configurable syntax coloring * Pre-configured color schemes for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. * User defined tools and console output window * User defined file types * Transparent FTP upload and download * Powerful scripting capabilities * Extensible clip libraries with macro support * Professional text processing through TextPipe filters * Multiple codepage support and codepage conversion * Unicode UTF-8 support (requires Windows NT, 2000 or XP) * Newline conversion for Unix, DOS and Macintosh files * Document tabs * Address bar to display the current file name or URL * Fully-functional Explorer tree allowing multiple file selection * List of open windows with useful context menu * Bookmarks * Goto Line dialog * Document Properties dialog * Multi-Language support (currently English, German, Spanish and Chinese) [Report a dead link]
http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/

Sushi
Text editor with highlighting for any language, plus define your own highlighter. Now has: tabbed interface, document templates, convert text to HTML, run compiler from the editor, todo list, search across files, [Report a dead link]
http://www.hushpage.com/

Syn
syn is an Open Source Text- and Programming Editor with Syntaxhighlight for many Languages, and some IDE Features, like starting a program (e.g. Compiler) and capture the output, support for Projects etc. syn is written in Delphi (Version 5, Updatepack 1) for maximum performance, stability and filesize ;-), hence it doesn't require any bulky VC++/VB Runtime or MFC libraries!

syn supports Active Scripting, this means you can extend the functionallity with writing a Script.

* Syntaxhighlight for about 40 different languages.
* Autocomplete like in Delphi with Popup List.
* Autocorrect.
* Bookmarks.
* Customizable Shortcuts.
* Drag and Drop editing.
* Powerful Search and Replace with Regular Expressions + Incremental Search.
* Unlimited Undo and Redo.
* Highlight matching Brackets.
* Highlight current line.
* Macro Recorder
# Start Commandline Programs (Compiler, Interpreter or whatever) and capture the Output.
# Scripting using your favorite Script Language (VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, Python or any other supported language) with custom Forms (modal Dialogs only) + execute Scripts on certain events.
# Configureable Tools (Start a Program, Insert a String into the Editor or execute an Editcommand).
# Spell Checker + check spelling while you're typing.
# Export to HTML, RTF and LaTeX.
# Autodetect Linebreakstyles (DOS, UNIX or Mac), and convert them.
# Convert between different codepages (KOI8-R, ISO 8859, DOS, Mac).
# Print and Printpreview with Syntaxhighlight in color.
# Support for projectfiles.
# Drag and Drop support.
# Ability to read and write Delphi/C++Builder binary Form files.
# Assign to any Syntax Scheme a custom Helpfile and call it via a Hotkey.
# Edit documents directly on a FTP server + Proxy support.
# File Explorer.
# Saves Bookmarks and Caret Pos for each file, if you wish.
# Optional Tray Icon interface.
# Find and Replace in Files + Regular Expressions (Grep) with support for binary files.
# Document Templates. [Report a dead link]
http://syn.sourceforge.net/

Synth 17
Synth 17 is a programmers editor; FEATURES: edit huge files, bookmarks, regular expression find/replace, user defineable syntax highlighters (many included). New: Pascal Script to create simple routines or visual wizards. [Report a dead link]
http://www.jansfreeware.com/jfeditors.htm

Teraedit
Free text editor, supports compiling via many compilers, syntax highlighting, select and cut columns. [Report a dead link]
http://www.terasoft.ru

Text Ed
TextEd 3.1 is multifile text editor DLL with major formatting features, ability to send e-mails and perform fast search and text replace tasks. Interface is user friendly, XP-style look, has customizable file open/save dialogs, remembers the most recently used files, find & replace phrases, making everydays work easy and more pleasent. DLL can be used with any Windows programming language. Also Quick Keys, Todo list, Quick notes.

TextEd was made by 'The Friendly Team' group of volunteers and is completely free to use for unlimited time. [Report a dead link]
http://www.greenhousemm.com
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Textpad v4
You can correct the most common typing errors with commands to change case, and transpose words, characters and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, split or join lines, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redone, right back to the first one made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines, and edit commands can be applied to lines with bookmarks.

Frequently used combinations of commands can be saved as keystroke macros, and the spelling checker has dictionaries for 10 languages. It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file compare and search commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers).

Spybot SD says this tracks app usage and sends the info back somewhere. [Report a dead link]
http://www.textpad.com

Textshield , 1,550kb
TextShield is a free, compact word processor with a wealth of features. Beside of those features available in most word processors, it has also more advanced, but easy-to-use, features. It can for example compress files automatically using the popular ZIP compression, which can make them up to 95% smaller. It saves files in the universal RTF format, which every decent word processor supports, or in plain text: it was made to act as both a word processor and a plain text editor. For maximum interchangeability, TextShield has a build-in HTML converter and the ability to save to the Microsoft Word and other formats using Microsoft converters. TextShield supports advanced formatting features, like hyperlinks, advanced underlining styles, Rainbow Colors and even 3D Text. And it is this compact that it fits easily on one single 1.44Mb floppy disk (try installing Word on a floppy...). All of these features would be worthless without a good help system, so TextShield has a help file which contains about 6000 words, explaining everything that could be difficult for the beginning user. Also at http://www.bykeyword.com/pages/detail11/download-11617.html [Report a dead link]
http://www.torry.net/texteditors.htm
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tfm Editor , 487kb
Wow!!! This is a fabulous replacement for NotePad for those who are looking more for a word processor than a programmer's editor. It handles both ASCII text as well as RTF (rich text format) and has an unlimited filesize (well, technically it has a limit of 100MB but I think for all intents and purposes we can call that unlimited!), an e-mail capability, many text attributes beyond 'bold, italics and underline', a built-in calendar, date and time display, etc, etc, etc.

The toolbar is sensational ­ other programmers should look to see how a little extra work makes the whole project look professional ­ and the editor hums along nicely. Excellent. We were impressed with the thought gone into little aspects of this program which are often missed by other programmers. The e-mail client, for example, needs to be setup to handle SMTP mail but you can either retain the settings just for that session or you can have them saved (in the Registry) for posterity. Neat. The editor isn't designed to be a stand-alone e-mail client, rather it offers e-mail facilities for that letter you wanted to write.

The author has promised that future versions will have things like spell checkers but we have a feeling that by then it will be shareware. tfmSoftware/JD Wells jd@tfmsoftware.com [Report a dead link]
http://www.pacifier.com/~tfm/tfmEd.html

Tomahawk
An RTF editor which makes PDF files. Tomahawk PDF+ gives you a complete PDF file creation suite right on your computer. Tomahawk can also be used as an advanced editor for rtf, txt, tmd (our own format) and other file formats. Features include: 1. Tables - Tomahawk supports tables and tables nested inside of other tables. You can set the border style, background color (in both tables and cells), border style, embed images, cell alignment, etc. Insert or delete rows and columns into existing tables. Merge and split cells. 2. Table Headers - Table header row(s) can be set to repeat on subsequent pages during print-outs or exporting to PDF for large tables. 3. Background images - Set a background image for your document. Images can be displayed as tiled, normal, or stretched. Tables can have their own background image. 4. Bullets - Tomahawk supports several levels of bullets, including the ability to use images as bullets. 5. Colors - Tomahawk supports text colors, text background colors, paragraph colors, table and cell colors. 6. Export and Import - Import files in rtf, text, html, MS Word®, WordPerfect®, etc. depending on what file convertors are loaded on your computer. 7. Spell check - Spell check and Thesaurus are available for download! 8. Search and Replace text. 9. Embedded Hyperlink support. 10. Page setup with headers and footers. 11. Embed images inside your text with resizing capability. 12. Drag & drop inserting for supported files and images. 13. Superscript and subscript support. 14. Underline, Overline and strikeout support. 15. Paragraph spacing. 16. Full text search enabled in the PDF file. 17. Print and Print Preview. 18. Native Richtext (RTF), tmd (our own special format) and txt file format editing. 19. Does NOT require any Acrobat software to be installed on your computer. 20. Insert special characters. 21. Extract and Import PDF text and images 22. Image Manager - Manipulate images on your hard drive: rotate, invert, flip, mirror, apply color and special effects, convert entire folder of images to a different format. 23. PDF output capability of: - Hiding the menu bar in Acrobat. - Hiding the tool bar in Acrobat. - Prevent printing. - Prevent copying. - Prevent changing the structure. - Set the margins. - Set the Title field. - Set the Author field. - Set the Subject field. - Set the Keywords. [Report a dead link]
http://nativewinds.montana.com/software/tomahawk.html

VIM
Text editor works on almost every OS you can think of including, but not limited to: many *nixes, Mac, Windows, Amiga, Atari, BeOS, OS2, VMS, etc. Unixes: A/UX, AIX, BSDI, Convex, DYNIX/ptx, DG/UX, DEC Unix, FreeBSD, HPUX, Irix, Linux [Debian, RedHat, Slackware, SuSE,...], MacOSX, NetBSD, NEXTSTEP, OpenBSD, OSF, QNX, SCO, Sinix, Solaris, SunOS, SUPER-UX, Ultrix, Unixware, Unisys.

Some features include:

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http://www.vim.org

Wordtabs
RTF and text editor with spell checker. [Report a dead link]
http://www.pricelessware.org/

WordWeb
Free dictionary and thesaurus plugin. [Report a dead link]
http://wordweb.co.uk/free