Text Editor to Replace Notepad (1 Viewer)

[Darren Lewis]

I'm looking for a good text editor to replace notepad for editing HTML and scripts. I've heard about UltraEdit and TextPad. Any others to look at? What do other people use?

 

[Andre F]

I've always liked NoteTab Light, plus it's freeware! Check out the link here.
-Andre F

 

[MichaelPe]

EditPlus is also a great text editor.

 

[Greg_Y]

I use EditPlus too.

 

[Rob Speicher]

GWD Text Editor: http://www.gwdsoft.com/
ConTEXT (good, and free): http://fixedsys.com/context/
I currently use ConTEXT, used to use GWD.

 

[BillSherbon]

Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
I don't know how it compares to the ones the other folks mentioned.

 

[DaveF]

Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

I second Metapad. For me, it's the perfect replacement for Notepad.

 

[Rob_J]

I use editpad religiously.
The Editpad Classic version is freeware I believe.
www.jgsoft.com

 

[Brett_H]

I'll second the vote for EditPad. I believe the freeware version is now called EditPad Lite.
-Brett.

 

[Christian Behrens]

Great thread!
While it's no match for most of the programs mentioned here, I'd like to add for completeness sake Notepad+. It's also free, very small, unlimited file size support on Win9x, and opens more than one file (what a pain the original notepad is in this regard).
ConTEXT looks very interesting, I will have a look at that, though.
-Christian

 

[Jay H]

I've used TextPad (www.textpad.com) before and it's pretty decent, especially for the Java environment included, if you're a programmer.
It is shareware with a time-based demo you can download.
Jay