Best Text Editors for Windows of 2024

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    Dev-C++ Reviews

    Dev-C++

    Embarcadero

    27 Ratings
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    Embarcadero Dev C++ is a new and improved fork sponsored by Embarcadero. It's a combination of Orwell Dev C++ and Bloodshed Dev C++. It is a fully-featured Integrated Development Environment, (IDE), and code editor for C/C++ programming languages. It uses Mingw port GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), as its compiler. Embarcadero DevC++ can be used with Cygwin and any other GCC-based compiler. Embarcadero DevC++ is built with the latest Embarcadero Delphi. Embarcadero DevC++ is native Windows and has a small memory footprint. It does not use Electron. Optimized to parallel compile on modern multi-core processors.
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    Overleaf Reviews

    Overleaf

    Overleaf (Writelatex Limited)

    2 Ratings
    You don't need to do anything complicated. LaTeX is easy to use, even if it's your first time using it. Overleaf includes a fully-functional, ready-to-go LaTeX environment that runs on our servers. Overleaf gives you the same LaTeX setup wherever you are. You can trust that Overleaf will not cause any package conflicts or version inconsistencies by working with your peers and students.
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    Komodo IDE Reviews

    Komodo IDE

    ActiveState Software

    1 Rating
    The IDE for today's web language - Python, PHP and Perl - allows you to code faster.
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    SlickEdit Reviews
    Multi-platform cross-platform code editor that supports over 60 languages across 9 platforms.
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    SeaMonkey Reviews
    The SeaMonkey Project is a community effort to create the SeaMonkey Internet Application Suite (see further). This software suite was popularized by Netscape and Mozilla. The SeaMonkey project continues to improve and deliver high-quality updates. SeaMonkey includes an Internet browser, email and newsgroup client, as well as a web feed reader, HTML editor and IRC chat. It is sure to be a hit with advanced users, corporate users, and web developers. SeaMonkey is based on the same Mozilla Firefox source code that powers Thunderbird. SeaMonkey Association (SeaMonkey e.V.) provides legal backing. .
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    UltraEdit Reviews

    UltraEdit

    IDM Computer Solutions

    1 Rating
    UltraEdit has been the preferred text editor for over 2 million users and many Fortune 100/500/1000 customers for almost three decades. UltraEdit is a powerful and fast data processor that can handle large files. It also supports almost any syntax or source language. UltraEdit is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife" of text editors. It's a powerful tool that can be used by users across many industries and responsibilities. UltraEdit is able to solve almost any problem in text editing, including project management and programming. It can also handle large file manipulations, remote (FTP/SFTP), data sorting, column/block editing, advanced file searching, and text data reformatting. UltraEdit is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is supported by a professional team of developers and customer service personnel located in the USA.
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    Code Browser Reviews
    Code Browser is a Linux and Windows folding text editor. It can hierarchically organize any type of text file, and especially source code. It makes it easier to navigate through source code. Code Browser is a tool that allows you to quickly navigate through the source code of large projects. It can also be used to view a simple CSS file. It is ideal if you don't want to scroll through thousands upon thousands of lines of code. It supports syntax highlighting in all major languages. Custom syntax highlighting is also possible. Code Browser was originally designed to be used to edit programs. However, it can also serve other purposes such as plain text outlining and helping to understand the source code. I have added a page that offers suggestions on how to fold.
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    Visual Studio Code Reviews
    Top Pick
    Code editing. Redefined Free. Open source. It runs everywhere. IntelliSense provides smart completions that go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete. It uses variable types, function definitions and imported modules to provide intelligent completions. You can debug code directly from the editor. You can attach or launch your apps, and debug with breakpoints, call stacks and an interactive console. It's never been easier to work with Git or other SCM providers. The editor allows you to review diffs and stage files, as well as make commits. Pull and push from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? To add languages, themes, debuggers and connect to other services, install extensions. Extensions are separate processes that don't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. Microsoft Azure allows you to deploy and host your React (Angular), Vue, Node (and many more!) applications. Sites can store and query relational or document-based data and scale with serverless computing.
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    Notepad++ Reviews
    Top Pick
    Notepad++ is a Notepad replacement and source code editor that is free and supports multiple languages. It runs in MS Windows and is subject to the GNU General Public License. Notepad++, which is based on Scintilla's powerful editing component, is written in C++. It uses pure Win32 APIs and STL to ensure a faster execution speed and smaller programs. Notepad++ strives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by optimizing as many routines and as user-friendly as possible. The PC can use less CPU power to throttle down and reduce power consumption. This results in a greener environment.
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    IntelliJ IDEA Reviews
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    IntelliJ IDEA

    JetBrains

    $14.90 per user per month
    23 Ratings
    IntelliJ IDEA analyzes the code and finds connections between symbols in all files and languages. This information provides in-depth coding guidance, quick navigation, clever errors analysis, and, ofcourse, refactorings. Space gives you a list of the most relevant symbols applicable in the current context. This and other completions are continuously learning from you and move the members of the most commonly used classes and packages to top of the suggestions list so you can choose them faster. This is a deeper version of Smart Completion. It lists all applicable symbols that are accessible through methods or getters within the current context. Let's say you are looking for Project but only have the Module module declaration. Space twice to get module.getProject() without any additional effort. Complete static members Allows you to use constants or static methods easily. It displays a list of symbols that match your input and automatically adds the required import statements.
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    Apache NetBeans Reviews

    Apache NetBeans

    Apache Software Foundation

    Free
    4 Ratings
    Development Environment, Tooling Platform, and Application Framework. Apache NetBeans is more than a text editor. It highlights source code semantically and syntactically, and allows you to refactor code with a variety of powerful and handy tools. Apache NetBeans offers editors, wizards, templates, and other tools to help you create Java, PHP, and other languages applications. Apache NetBeans is compatible with all Java-supporting operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD. NetBeans is also supported by Write Once, Run Anywhere.
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    Atom Reviews
    Atom is a hackable text editor built on Electron and inspired by our favorite editors. It is customizable but still easy to use the default configuration. Although a text editor is the heart of a developer’s toolbox, it doesn’t always work by itself. With the GitHub package, you can access Git and GitHub from Atom. You can create new branches, stage and commit, push, pull, resolve merge conflicts and view pull requests all from your editor. Atom already includes the GitHub package, so you are ready to go. Atom is compatible with all operating systems. It can be used on OS X, Windows or Linux. You can search for and install new packages, or create your own right within Atom. Atom makes it easier to write code faster thanks to its intelligent and flexible autocomplete. Browse and open files, whole projects, or multiple projects from one window.
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    EditPlus Reviews

    EditPlus

    Sangil Kim (ES-Computing)

    $35
    3 Ratings
    EditPlus is a text editor that works on Windows. It has built-in FTP, FTPPS and sftp capabilities. It can be used as a replacement for Notepad, but it also has powerful features that can be used by programmers and web page authors.
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    Obsidian Reviews

    Obsidian

    Obsidian

    $25 one-time payment
    3 Ratings
    Obsidian, a powerful knowledge database, works on top a local folder of plaintext Markdown files. Human brains are non-linear. We move from one idea to the next all the time. Your second brain should function in the same way. Obsidian makes it easy to make and follow "connections". You can take your notes like a gardener and then, at the end of each day, you can sit back and admire your knowledge graph. Note-taking can be very personal. You've tried every app and there's always something wrong. You deserve better. Obsidian was built to be extensible. You can quickly set up your own toolkit with 22 core plugins or 149 community plugins. Once Obsidian reaches version 1.0, you'll be able install third-party plugins and build your own. The sky is the limit. Cloud services can be shut down, bought or changed privacy policies at any time. The last thing you want are proprietary formats and data lock in. Obsidian stores your data in a local folder.
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    Sublime Text Reviews
    Top Pick

    Sublime Text

    Sublime HQ

    $80 one-time fee
    21 Ratings
    Advanced text editor for code and markup. Goto Anything allows you to quickly jump to symbols, lines, or words by opening files using just a few keystrokes. You can make ten changes at once, and not just one change ten times. Multiple selections allow for interactively changing multiple lines at once, renaming variables quickly, and modifying files faster than ever before. The Command Palette contains infrequently used functionality such as sorting, changing syntax, and changing indentation settings. You can search for exactly what you need with just a few keystrokes. Sublime Text's Python API allows plugins to enhance the built-in functionality. Package Control can be installed using the command palette. This allows for easy access to thousands upon thousands of packages created by the community.
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    CodeLobster IDE Reviews
    You will need to decide which IDE you want to use when you begin programming with PHP. Many companies sell their IDEs at high prices (100-$500). We, on the other hand, offer a multifunctional portable IDE absolutely FREE with all these standard features: PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting; advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete; a powerful PHP debugger; context and dynamic Help; a code validator; a SQL manager and much more. The CodeLobster IDE simplifies and streamlines the PHP development process. We've made it easy for you to forget the names of arguments, arguments, tags, and their attributes. You can also use the Help control or press F1 to get any help information. You can validate your code locally with an internal PHP Debugger.
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    Brackets Reviews
    Brackets, a modern text editor with preprocessor support and focused visual tools, makes it easy to design in a browser. It was designed from the ground up to be used by web designers and front-end programmers. Brackets is a modern, lightweight text editor. The editor incorporates visual tools so that you can get the help you need without affecting your creativity. Brackets is a great place to write code. Brackets is an open source project that is supported by a passionate community. It was created by web developers like yourself! Brackets allows you to open a window that shows you the code you are most interested in, rather than jumping between file tabs. You want to see the CSS that applies only to a particular ID? You can use the Command / Ctrl+E button to display all CSS selectors for that ID in an inline browser.
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    CoffeeCup HTML Editor Reviews

    CoffeeCup HTML Editor

    CoffeeCup Software

    $19 per month
    3 Ratings
    The HTML Editor is your new best friend, if yes. You will feel empowered with handy tag references, intuitive tools such as code completion, website components which update instantly across all pages, live Previews, and many other amazing tools and features. End tag highlighting was implemented because we were tired of searching for the ending div tag. This new feature is also available for other tags, so have fun! We have created a lot of responsive templates that are 100% free. These templates can be imported into the HTML Editor by the new Template Installer in just two clicks. Learn CSS Grid. Play with the code by downloading a template. CoffeeCup makes web design fun! This new welcome screen will make web development easy. Do you need a quick static web page? Click on New HTML Page. You can choose to start with a responsive template, create a complex web project or just play around with PHP. This is the place to start your web adventure.
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    WordPad Reviews
    WordPad is a text-editing program that allows you to create and edit text files, insert pictures and add links to other files. WordPad can open and save text files, rich text files, Word documents (.docx), OpenDocument text file (.odt), and Word documents (.txt). Files in other formats may not open as plain text files. WordPad doesn't support certain features like annotations, headers, footers and footers. WordPad will not allow you to open files with these features. You can save the file with a new name if you need to make changes to such a file. This allows you to make changes to a copy of the file, but keeps the original content intact. To see more information about each button, press and hold it (or, if you're using the mouse, point at the button).
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    BlueGriffon Reviews

    BlueGriffon

    Disruptive Innovations

    $87.75 one-time payment
    3 Ratings
    Based on Firefox's rendering engine, the next-gen Web and EPUB editor are available. BlueGriffon®, a proud inheritor from all of its famous ancestors, has a long list: Netscape®, Mozilla® Composer, and Nvu. It is powered by Gecko (the same rendering engine that powers Firefox® Composer), and has tons of powerful features. BlueGriffon®, which is used by millions around the globe, includes Universities, Governments, and even the European Parliament, is powered by Gecko. The French Government officially recommends it as the Web Authoring Tools for the French Administration, in its efforts to rely on and encourage Free Software.
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    PimNote Reviews
    PimNote is a text editor that allows for faster document access. It also combines both the useful and unutilized features of all other text editors. This tool is designed for knowledge management. You can quickly access the recent file list with a single click. You can easily access an old file that has been opened long ago with the unlimited and searchable recent files list. You can type less with the one-click search and find history feature. This product is designed for remote work. No freezing from a remote file monitoring/opening/writing when disconnected. You can save files offline by closing the application and not closing the tabs. During file opening, auto-reconnect the network drive. Recurring file notifications are displayed politely on top bar, instead of a popup dialog box that requires frequent actions and tends not to be used.
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    Desech Studio Reviews

    Desech Studio

    Desech

    €9.99 per month
    No-Code visual html/css editor for web programmers and designers Import your Figma , Sketch or Adobe XD files into Desech Studio - Change the layout, responsiveness and attributes in Desech Studio - Connect with plugins like Material Design and React, Angular, Vue, etc - Desech Studio always stays in sync with your React, Angular, Vue, etc project
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    Bird Reviews
    Bird is a UNICODE-based text editor that allows you to create and edit any text you need. You will see more clearly the characters that you have entered. It can read ASCII text as well as UNICODE text. UNICODE up until LE (Little Enterdian) is also supported. The text saving format is UNICODE, not ASCII. It supports many languages. Data capacity: 1 GB. Supporting languages (138 more): Abkhazian, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Bengali, Bhutani, Bihari, Bislama, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Byelorussian, Cambodian, Catalan, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faeroese, Fiji, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Interlingue, Inupiak, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kinyarwanda, Kirghiz, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Russian and more..
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    Predator CNC Editor Reviews

    Predator CNC Editor

    Predator Software

    $250
    Predator CNC Editor is one of the most popular CNC editor on the market. It has hundreds of features that will improve the productivity of CNC operators, programmers, and machine tool operators. Yet, it is very easy to use. The Predator CNC Editor is a great choice for small shops or large manufacturers.
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    NoteTab Reviews

    NoteTab

    Fookes Software

    $39.95 one-time payment
    NoteTab is the best Notepad replacement available. It's the fastest HTML editor for webmasters. It's also the most versatile text editor. It's a powerful text-processing tool for power users. What's it like for you?
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