Freeware Text Editor Windows

Notepad and Wordpad that comes with default Windows OS is not good enough. It is very basic and lacks some serious functionality. However there are tons of free text editors available in the market, which has more functionality than some of the commercial text editors.

In this article, let us review the Top 5 Free Text Editors for Windows OS.

Sublime Text allows for all sorts of customization to help users change almost everything in the editor: Key Bindings, Menus, Snippets, Macros, Completions, and many more. Essentially, just about everything in Sublime Text is customizable with simple JSON files. TextMorph is an ASCII text editor (similar to Notepad) except it also does so much more.

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1. Notepad++

Notepad++ is an open source text editor that does excellent job — both as notepad replacement and as full blown source code editor. Following are some key highlights.

AEdit SX- Ultra-fast Text Editor, With Spell Checker, Print Preview And Setup.

• Multi-Tab and Multi-View
• Drag and Drop support to open and move documents
• Syntax highlighting for several languages
• Auto completion of functions and code blocks
• Bookmark a location within the document
• Macro – Record and play repeated operations.
• Search and replace using regular expressions
• Lot more additional features using plugins

• Our Rating:
• Fast and stable with tons of features. Excellent for both notepad replacement and full source code editor
• OS: All flavors of Windows including Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Open Source. GPL License

2. NoteTab Lite

NoteTab lite is a good free text editor that offers all the standard features that you might expect in a text editor. Using NoteTab, you can create a paste board file which will save all your clipboard copy automatically. Buy new microsoft office. This helps in retrieving the clipboard copy other than the last one.

• Our Rating:
• Offers all standard text editor features for daily use
• single-level undo only
• OS: All flavors of Windows including Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows 2000, Windows XP

3. Notepad2

If you hate default windows Notepad, you'll love this Notepad2. Dowload windows 10. This has all the features you wish Microsoft had in their default notepad. It is very light-weight with just a single executable.

• Our Rating:
• Light-weight with just one executable. Excellent replacement for default notepad
• No tabbed interface
• OS: Windows NT, XP, Vista, 2003

4. Editpad Lite

This is an excellent textpad editor, which would've easily taken our #2 spot. Since it is only for personal use and not for commercial purpose, this has come down to #4 spot. This has the tabbed interface and has multi-level undo facility.

• Our Rating:
• Multi-level undo feature
• Only for personal use. Not for professional use
• OS: Windows NT, XP, Vista, 2003

5. Jedit

Windows 10 dashboard widgets. Jedit offers a wide selection of features with it's plugins. This is an awesome source code editor that has tabbed interface, syntax highlighting, diff, macro recording and everything a programmer would ever need. If I consider only the features, this would've easily taken the #1 spot. However, this is heavy-weight and it takes some time to startup.

• Our Rating:
• The best editor for programmers with loads of features
• Heavy-weight and take a while to launch
• OS: Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows
• Open Source

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If you use any of the editor from our top 5 list, vote for your favorite editor. If your favorite editor is not in the list, choose other from this poll and leave a comment and let us know what is your favorite editor.

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E is a lightweight and robust text editor for Windows with support for tabbed editing, syntax highlighting (html, xml, php, etc), unicode support, undo and redo history and search and replace.

E Text Editor is also a collaborative text editor and comes with full support for file editing among groups with change history recorded. E also includes many unique abilities and features not standard among its rivals.

The E Text Editor also leverages the full power of a unix scripting environment and its integration with cygwin allows you to access many UNIX tools.

e Text Editor can edit PHP files, edit HTML documents and highlight syntax.

Compatibility and license

This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from text editors and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after 30 days). The e 2.0.1 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software.

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Since the publisher or product no longer exists, the download of e Text Editor is from the archive and therefore outdated; updates to this software should not be expected.

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