Open-source text editor Notepad++ is releasing a new milestone version for its 20th anniversary with multi-edit capabilities, multi-select background, and numerous bug fixes.
Compatible with all major programming languages, Microsoft offers the free Visual Studio Code editor that also lets you debug code, run tasks and do version control.
Notepad++ is an advanced text editor aimed at programmers, web designers, and IT professionals. It has basic IDE features but retains the familiarity of Windows' built-in text editor and very simple word processor.
Atom is a relatively new text editor that's quickly becoming a favorite. The latest version of this "hackable" editor includes GitHub package improvements, improved syntax highlighting and code folding, Python and HTML language improvements, among others. GitHub also released a new beta for Atom today.
Old school coders liked to say Notepad was the best text editor you could use. But truth is, lean text editors with very powerful features are superior and just as accessible and speedy. Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code or anything you want it to be. This latest 3.0 release has been a long time coming, and it's free to try for an indefinite amount of time.