I'm looking for an editor to replace notepad ? Thank you..?

Hello everyone..





I'm using WindowsXP and I'm planning to replace notepad as my default text editor. I'm looking for a nice, full-featured text editor; maybe with spell checker and syntax highlighting capability (in case I write something C++).





Also, since I'm planning to replace the original "notepad.exe", I hope this editor come in a small, self-contained *.exe file (or at least without too many support files). I'm just looking for a small text editor, not a Microsoft Word replacement :D





A freeware would be a HUGE plus.





Any suggestions would be appreciated.





Thank you in advance.. :D





Best regards,


-septerra-

I'm looking for an editor to replace notepad ? Thank you..?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tex...





What you want is a "plain text editor". Vim and Emacs are commonly cited (they do have Windows versions available). But there is a learning curve to using them.





You might like Notepad++, PSPad, SciTE, and jEdit. They are very solid editors with a mind towards programmers.
Reply:I have enjoyed 'Bloodshed' for a while now.





www.bloodshed.net





I believe it will have everything you need as long as you're really just looking for a text editor anyway...I couldn't tell you much about its compilers.





It also has a whole site dedicated to better programming and the software is free.
Reply:editpad http://www.editpadpro.com/


notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/


notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.htm...
Reply:why not just switch to wordpad, it comes with windows and is just slightly more featured than notepad
Reply:Try TextPad it has great color schemes and several functions and the best part is that its free.





www.textpad.com
Reply:Back when I was first playing around with programming I also wanted this too. Except when I was doing it I wanted transparent and color effects so I turned to one called CrankPad which is very lightweight and has no system requirements. If you want you can go here which has a list of alternatives to NotePad.
Reply:Have you tried openoffice.org which is a good non-Microsoft office application
Reply:http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-...





Here it is. As I know, notepad++ knows syntax hilighting for several programming languages. And of course it is freeware, even open source.