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Text Editors Roundup

These reviews and comments were formely posted on http://www.ztw3.com(external link).

Aurora

Aurora Text Editor is an excellent DOS-based text editor. Useful for modifying text, program source, and binary files, it can also be used for word processing and file management. (Victor Garcia, March 26, 2000)

Blair Thompson

Very good, long history, macro driven, programmers editor. Binary, ascii, language context highlighting etc. (Andy Low, May 20, 2000)

boxer

Best text editor I've used in a long time! Supports file saves in DOS, Unix, Mac format. Text selection can be switched to column format, great for tables and lists of data. Highlights language syntax, finds language structure boundaries. Good file compare features, multiple simultaneous file edits, saves open file edits with line location and automatically restores. Detects file changes and allows window refresh, great for shared access to files. Lots more, check it out. (Doug Lloyd, May 30, 2001)

ConTEXT

ConTEXT is small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers. 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. (Victor Garcia, August 03, 2003 - 04:22 PM)

ED for Windows

(Kvetoslav Bolek, January 25, 2001)

Editeur

Choice of fonts, backgroud colours. Search /Replace, multi undo/redo, block selection mode, spell-checking for multiple languages, macros, unlimited file size, no line length limitation. And on top of it the best available syntax highlighting (customizable) of any editor (built in for everything common such as HTML, C++, Perl, etc, but not only good for programmers: makes als your autoexec.bat and .ini foles more legible). By all means most worthy of consideration! (Oliver Alexander, November 05, 2000)

EditPad Classic

Freeware.
EditPad is a replacement for the standard Windows NotePad. It runs under Windows 95/98/NT4/2000. No additional DLLs or whatever are required.
(Victor Garcia, August 03, 2003 - 04:20 PM)

EditPad Lite and EditPad Pro

Have tried many of the editors listed on this page, but love EditPad Lite (a freebee) for quick editing, and EditPad Pro when I need more features. FROM THEIR WEBSITE: What You Can Do with EditPad Pro But Not with EditPad Lite Syntax coloring for many popular file types: HTML, Object Pascal (Delphi), Java, C++, Eiffel, Python and SQL, etc... (info (Tom Foote, November 22, 2001)

EditPlus

EditPlus is a text editor with a powerful set of features for Web authors and programmers. EditPlus offers a wide range of features, including: customizable syntax highlighting (with support for HTML, CSS, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, PERL, PHP, Java, C/C++, and many other languages). (Victor Garcia, March 26, 2000) Excellent editor for FTP transactions. (Victor Garcia, August 11, 2001)

EMEDIT

While I still use certain features of EditPad (which I've described below on this page), my latest favorite editor is now EMEDIT, from Emurasoft. FROM THEIR WEBSITE: KEYWORD HIGHLIGHTING The Bat, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, Ini, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Pascal (Del (Tom Foote, June 12, 2003)

Epsilon Programmer's Editor

Completely customizable using C routines. Syntax coloring for all popular languages and file types. Can be integrated with Developer Studio. (Roger Arnett, April 24, 2000)

File Editor for Win

File Editor for Windows 95/NT is a small utility that allows you to view and modify binary files. You can search for specified hexadecimal and ASCII strings. Most commonly used menu commands are available on the application's toolbar ribbon. (Victor Garcia, April 01, 2000)

FTPEdit

Superb editor that has built-in FTP support, so you can load and edit files directly on an FTP-server, as easy as if the files were located on your own local system. Supports syntax highlightning (incl. custom syntax highlight) and it's Freeware! (PeeWee, January 23, 2003)

Gnu Emacs

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Not simple, but as powerful as they get. Launch from Ztree with : ""gnuclientw LFN"" (You need gnuclientw — see the page above for more info) (Kornelis Sietsma, June 29, 2000)

JEdit

Some of jEdit's features include: Built-in macro language (BeanShell). Extensible plugin architecture, with more than 60 plugins available. Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the ""plugin manager"" feature. Syntax highlighting for 70 languages. Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode. Auto-indenting of source code. Folding (indent and 'marker' based). Word wrap. Unlimited undo/redo. Highly configurable and customizable. Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor. (Helge Tesgaard, October 17, 2002)

JFE (Jens file editor)

English and German versions. Free, intuitive, stable. Easy to use, and provides all the features needed by programmers, including some not found on many expensive editors. Support C/C++, Java particularly well. (Hideuse brute, September 25, 2002)

KEDIT

I have been using KEDIT for many years. It is extremely powerful but needs getting used to. It is a PC version of IBM's old XEDIT editor which ran on VM/CMS systems. There are both DOS and Windows versions of KEDIT. (Peter Kelen, August 23, 2002)

Max Editor

This is a great editor (Victor Garcia, July 27, 2001)

MED

MED is in its features pretty close to UltraEdit, but I like it better. It is intended for programmers, has syntax highlighting, of course, and is very configurable with the corresponding compiler and help file you need and much more. - It is a pitty that it is that unknown. (Thomas S., February 24, 2007)

Metapad 3.0, 3.5beta

This is a great replacement for Notepad. It is just slightly larger, handles Dos, Unix, and Unicode. I've tried NoteTab, and some others, usually going back to Notepad but not this time. It's like notepad on steroids. (Richard, November 02, 2001)

Multi-Edit

Not only the best editor choice since the best C Editor, JavaScript Editor, NotePad Editor, etc. etc. (Carlos Alberto Marasco, August 24, 2000)

NeatPad

Very flexible and powerful text editor. Why would you need another text editor? Because NeatPad has everything you could possibly want at your fingertips to design a web page! (Victor Garcia, April 01, 2000)

Notespad

NotesPad (32-bit) is an excellent replacement for the Windows Notepad application. NotesPad improves upon Notepad in a number of ways. The interface uses a toolbar resembles Internet Explorer's toolbar, providing access to favorites, font sizes, printing, word wrapping, spell checking, and more. A ""Text clips"" button gives you access to handy text strings that you create that can be easily pasted into any document. For switching between open documents, NotesPad uses a handy tabbed toolbar. (Victor Garcia, March 26, 2000)

Notetab

Best text editor around. Free and registered version. No size limit, multitabs, programmation, clip languages, HTML support (can be used as Web editor), fast, color-coding, etc. Best shareware/freeware in its category. I'm suprised it is not in your list :-) (Laurent Duchastel de Montrouge, July 15, 2001)

PEdit

Great Editor (Peter Nortt, March 25, 2000)

Personal Editor 32

Personal Editor 32 is a powerful ASCII file editor with a console interface, then its integration with ZTreeWin is very high.
It is the only real 32 bit upgrade of the Dos IBM Personal Editor and all its revisions called PE2 and PE3.

Personal Editor 32 (also called PE32) maintains the same user interface, the same profile file syntax and it executes all the original commands to update the old editor at no cost.
It, however, uses a complete 32 bit core thus removing all DOS limitations, it adds many new powerful features like the multi language support, the syntax coloring and a lot of setting commands.

Personal Editor 32 is the best editor for editing large amount of data, for professional programmers and to simplify complex editing tasks.
(Paolo Chiartano, January 06, 2004 - 05:57 AM) This full 32 bit console editor is perfectly integrated with the Ztree interface. It has interface and profile file compatible with the IBM DOS personal editor, but no DOS restrictions and many new features. It is possible configure syntax coloring in order to create a perfect C++ editor. (Paolo Chiartano, April 17, 2000) Release 1.1 New Feature! .Visual Basic Script commands and files execution inside PE32! .Get and set PE32 attributes from Visual Basic Script commands! .PE32.VBS file to load Visual Basic Script procedures! .Encryption/Decryption password for each file! .Cursor moves to the last position on already opened files! (Paolo Chiartano, October 10, 2000) This full 32 bit console editor is perfectly integrated with the Ztree interface. It has interface and profile file compatible with the IBM DOS personal editor, but no DOS restrictions and many new features. It is possible configure syntax coloring in order to create a perfect C++ editor. Verify the rel. 1.1.26 features! (Paolo Chiartano, October 31, 2001) This full 32 bit console based editor is perfectly integrated with the Ztree interface. It has interface and profile file compatible with the IBM DOS personal editor, but no DOS restrictions and many new features. It is possible configure syntax coloring and keys macro in order to create a perfect programmer editor. Verify the rel. 1.1.27 features! (Chiartano, April 05, 2002)

Program Editor (Pedit)

PEDIT 4.00short for Program Editor, is similar to the DOS EDIT program, but more powerful, and with many additional features for programmers. It includes pop-up tables, column support, macro key, undo, copy (Greg Akers, July 18, 2000)

Programmer's File Editor

Programmer's File Editor is a 32-bit text editor primarily oriented toward program developers. Though it contains features such as the ability to run compilers and development applications, it also makes a good general-purpose editor for any other function. Features include multilevel undo, active buttons on a tear-off toolbar, automatic C-aware indenting, Unix file support, remappable keys, keyboard macros, and more. It is no longer under development but is still available. (Victor Garcia, August 03, 2003 - 04:21 PM, updated WaltP)

PSPad

Freeware. PSPad is a solid and flexible multipurpose editor. Among its features: macro recorder, full keyboard assignment, color syntaxing for any languages (configurable), user-define clips and templates, integrated help for various programming language, (Laurent Duchastel, July 18, 2004 - 12:43 PM)

QEdit

This is one of the oldest and best editors of all time. This wonderful editor let me do incredible things like macros and translations. (Peter Kelly, March 25, 2000)

TextPad

It's an excellent plain text editor because it can be configured with syntax definition files, so itcan be used to edit files in several langauges (C++, HTML, javascript, java, etc.) ant it can be used to manage files for Windows, DOS or UNIX files. It can be confured to work as an IDE. (Marco A. Cruz Quevedo, March 10, 2004 - 07:58 PM) The block selection tool is great for (re)moving columns within text files and works fast, reliable and intuitive even on large files. TextPad (32-bit) is a powerful, award-winning text editor for programmers. (Victor Garcia, March 26, 2000)

The SemWare® Editor Professional/32

With over 22 years in the text-editor business starting with QEdit, TSEPro32 v4.4 is the latest masterpiece from Semware. This console based professional editor includes a vast array of powerful features, including an extensive macro programming ability with 500+ commands, and comes with 30,000+ lines of source code and a debugger! Well suited for program development with smart indenting, color syntax highlighting etc, as well as very useful word-processing features. Highly recommended. (Kim Henkel, March 6, 2007)

Thomson-Davis Editor

TDE the Thomson-Davis Editor

TDE is a simple, public domain, multi-file/multi-window binary and text file editor written for IBM PCs and close compatibles running MSDOS, Win32 (console) or Linux. TDE is suitable for editing batch files, binary files, text files, and various computer language source code files (with configurable syntax highlighting). The only limit on the number and size of files that TDE can handle is the amount of memory. Likewise, the only limit on the number of windows is the amount of memory. There is no preset maximum number of files or windows that may be open at any one time. (Ben Kent, April 01, 2004 - 03:35 PM)

Ultra Edit

Great editor for all kinds of editing requirements. Shareware (US$30 or so to buy). Syntac hilite for lots of file types. Great multi file search functions. Macros, column mode, file compare, multilevel undo etc. A bit thin on advanced macro features (I spoiled from BRIEF). (Andreas Hagele, November 15, 2000)

VDE

VDE has a very long pedigree and now very stable. Wordstar keystrokes (but configurable to what you want), very fast insterface, support for Windows Long Filenames, support for large files, support for windows clipboard. Will read (extract text) from various word processor formats. Lots of configuration options. Integrates nicely with ZTeeWin and can ""feel"" like 1-word if that's what you're used to. (David Brown, May 30, 2001) This is the URL of my VDE site, which always has the latest version of VDE (direct from its author, Eric Meyer), plus info, add-ons, links to other interesting DOS software sites. Other: I regularly use VDE under ZTree, and they are a great match. (Steve Adelewitz, May 13, 2003)

Vedit

Edit absolutely any file - text, data, binary (hex) or EBCDIC; even 100+ Gigabyte files. It has every advanced feature you need, is easy to use, can quickly edit any file, has keystroke AND command macros and is fully customizable. The command macro language is fully programmable. The Windows and DOS versions operate almost exactly the same, and work the same on macros. Support is excellent and it has its own Forum (Steve Rawling, April 02, 2000, updated WaltP)

VIM

Free, fast, small, open-source, with many incredible features: configurable syntax-highlighting (already configured for almost any existing programming language), macros, key mapping, multiple undo levels, multiple file buffers, GUI version, OLE, integrated with Visual Studio, etc, etc, etc. (Fernando Sánchez C., April 05, 2000)

Visual SlickEdit

Cross-platform Multi-language Powerful features (Elizabeth Shubra, March 02, 2001)

WinVi

WinVi is a free editor for MS Windows. The executable file is available in two variations: a 32-bit version for Windows 95 and Windows NT, a 16-bit version for Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11. This editor is especially useful for friends of the Vi editor, who do not want to give up the little conveniences offered by Windows. Imho, the advantages of WinVi suggest a turn to this editor. (Victor Garcia, March 26, 2000)

X2 Programmers Editor

It's moved to a new location. Very good no messing about editor. Andy (Andy Low, February 13, 2003)

xemacs

XEmacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Very difficult to learn and master, yet this the most powerfull editor ever. It has very strong tools for writing programs in C, lisp, and many other languages. It has syntax highliting based on regular expressions — called font-lock It has a built-in calculator that can sum up a few numbers grabbed from the text, as well as compute the prime number that is higher than 300figure number. It can also solve series of non-linear equotations in symbolic format, .... And MANY, MANY more features. (Stanislav Sitar, May 10, 2001)
These reviews and comments were formely posted on http://www.ztw3.com(external link).

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