TextPad Alternative?

MagSafe · 21 Oct 2006 at 12:52

hey there

just about to pay the £16 for TextPad as I need a simple text editor with syntax highlighting and was wondering if there was any free alternatives?

Crimson looks ok but have used it before and wasen't to keen.

any suggestions?

thanks

edit: oops, meant to put this in the Windows forum, but i guess here will have to do!

JonC · 21 Oct 2006 at 13:21

Give notepad++ a try...

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/about.php

MTA99 · 21 Oct 2006 at 14:33

JonC said:
Give notepad++ a try...

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/about.php

Seconded!

MagSafe · 21 Oct 2006 at 16:40

thanks for that, just spent the money of TextPad though.

i used it throughout uni so may aswell stick to it.

Dark_Angel · 21 Oct 2006 at 16:45

Context is very good.

It does stuff with HTML, Php and various other bits and pieces.

meghatronic · 21 Oct 2006 at 17:25

I uninstalled textpad for notepad++....

riddlermarc · 21 Oct 2006 at 17:30

MTA99 said:
Seconded!

Thirded

Dj_Jestar · 21 Oct 2006 at 18:06

I uninstalled Notepad++ to make way for PSPad, then uninstalled that to make way for Eclipse.

LazyManc · 21 Oct 2006 at 18:10

I mainly use Eclipse, but if it's only a couple of files then notepad++ is the tool of choice.

Pulseammo · 21 Oct 2006 at 18:14

For most syntax highlighty stuff I just use C# express (well I use VS.NET 2k5 overkill edition because I got it free from my uni, but same thing really) for the languages that it supports.

Notepads with text highlighting are alright if its just for html, php, perl or what not but if you are coding something like java for uni then you really want to move to a decent IDE such as eclipse. Not only does it have syntax highlighting but theres also a lot of other useful stuff in there such as the debugging tools, code completion, task lists, interpretation as you type, package management, cvs if you ever need to do a group project etc etc etc.