Script & Text Editors

Focus on VBS is a Visual Basic Script Editor that includes lots of features like Syntax coloring, Find and Replace,Undo and Redo, Line and column numbering, running VBScripts from the editor (wscript) or in console mode (cscript), Drag-and-drop support, Printing, Shell integration, auto complete, displaying syntax help.

Source Edit is the tool to use if you develop in Java, C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, Pascal, Perl, ASP, XML, HTML, SQL, PHP. If you develop in another language, then Source Edit gives you the flexibility to add it. Source Edit is highly customizable. You can change or set keyboard shortcut to all commands available. You can change how code is colorized. Version 3.0 also comes with an hex editor. Code completion (IntelliSence) and the ability to add help files to get context sensitive help. You can also set the "file mapping". By file mapping you associate different file types to different languages.

ED for Windows is a smart language sensitive programmer's editor, with a breadth and depth of powerful editing capabilities you're unlikely to find elsewhere. ED goes beyond editing giving you instant access to every function and class with its Source Database Engine, unmatched Visual File Compare, integrated Compiler support, fast multi-threaded Regular Expression Search Engine, fully configurable UI, and quick access to files using Projects. ED includes support for 34 programming languages out of the box including PHP, Perl, Java, C/C++, HTML and many more.

Slayer's Editor is a file editor that has syntax highlighters for over 30 different programming languages and has also on the fly highlighting for all of them. In addition in can manage different types of files at the same time. Also it has built in support for RTF files and has a toolbar with formating opperations regarding them. The support for RTF files is build around RICHED20.DLL making the editor able to even add objects to the file. It was originally based uppon YourPasEdit but since the start the program now is completelly different and much more powerfull. This is the result of nearly two months of studying the original YPE source code and then coding most of the functions again from the bottom up to improve and make them work better together and also to make it easier to add new features to the program.

DzSoft WebPad is a simple and extensible HTML editor with PHP, JavaScript and ASP syntax highlighting. Features one-click preview in built-in browser, the HTML Tidy tool from the World Wide Web Consortium to format and cleanup your HTML code and much more. You can add your own features to DzSoft WebPad with the power of conventional HTML and JavaScript.

cEdit is a freeware opensource development tool supporting unlimited languages, plugins, FTP, macros, syntax highlighting, etc. cEdit has many of the features seen in high priced editors, including HEX editing, built in FTP, tags, snippets, plugins, and more.

TxE8 is a unique flexible word processor with a user-friendly interface. It's easy to use, powerful and 100% free. It loads extremely fast, can handle very large documents, can e-mail your documents (without using another program), and it has Drag and Drop support. It has many unique features, like the on-screen Find-bar to find things fast, and the Add text panel, which allows you to insert frequently used words quickly.

AceHTML is an advanced HTML editing software. It includes efficient and intuitive user interface, HTML checker and more.

UltraEdit is a great text editor for the Windows platform, with (editable) syntax highlighting for nearly any language. Small, fast, and rock-solid stable. It can edit files on the fly via ftp. Project files keep track of file groupings. Macros. Regular expression search/replace. All sorts of conversions and comparisons.

Evrsoft 1st Page 2000 helps you write, edit and improve your HTML, its powerful tools let you author websites faster, easier and better. Key features include: 3 primary development modes (easy/expert/hardcore), 450+ Javascripts/VBScripts, DHTML Zone with re-usable DHTML scripts, Full support for SSI, CGI, Perl, Cold Fusion, ASP, Javascript Rollover Images, Javascript/VBScript Object Tree, HTML Source Compressor - Reduce webpage file size, Flash 4/Shockwave/Java/ActiveX Support, 6 Common Javascript Wizards, Includes over 20+ cgi/perl/htmlscripts from Matt's Script, Open Document From the Web, Source Code Formatter, Complete Web Building Reference, and more.

EditPad is a general-purpose text editor, originally created to replace the Notepad applet that comes with Windows. It has all the features you want from a solid text editor, but no useless bells and whistles. Some notable features include: Open as many files at a time as you want, When you close an unsaved file, EditPad will either warn you, automatically save the file or do nothing, EditPad reads UNIX (LF only) and Mac (CR only) text files and can export files to both formats, ANSI <=> OEM (DOS ASCII) conversion, MAPI support for emailing texts, and more. Please refer to the homepage for non-english versions and 16-bit version.