Notepad and WordPad Replacements Are you looking for more capabilities than the default Notepad in Windows? Would you rather use a graphical text editor in Linux, rather than the built-in vi? There are many options for useful text editors out there. Some employ a tabbed interface, such as Jarte (which is based on the WordPad word processing engine and integrates easily with ), (which also has the automatic backup), and (which can also calculate the value of mathematical expressions entered in the program). Jarte, EditPad Lite, and Notetab Light are all only available for Windows. Jarte is also available as a portable program.

Typically, and it’s a keyboard intensive program with no graphical user interface (GUI). A good text editor for Windows that has hotkeys available for its 312 text-processing functions, innovative features, and timesaving tools is, which is also available as a portable program. Is also available for both Windows and Linux, and is customizable. It also includes a file compare utility and a file manager.

You can also add to Emacs, which is a personal information management and outlining tool. If you prefer text editors with GUIs, and are both good options and are available. Vim is essentially the graphical version of Vi. For help editing text files in Vi or Vim, see our. Is a Notepad replacement for Windows that allows you to edit many text files quickly from within Windows Explorer and has enhanced functionality for dealing with DIZ and NFO files.

It can also display ASCII art correctly. Another ASCII text formatter for Windows is, which can also convert text to and from HTML and clean up emails (remove all the “” symbols, etc.), and search and replace by words or multiple paragraphs.

Programmer’s Text Editors There are many text editors that provide useful functionality for programmers. Most support syntax highlighting for many programming languages, multiple document editing, and are extendable with plugins. Some also allow editing of remote files through FTP. Not only supports syntax highlighting, but also matching bracket highlighting for most popular programming languages.

It also has a hex editor, macro recorder, and a differencing tool. PSPad also easily integrates with the free version of the. Also supports bracket highlighting and macro recording. It also supports syntax folding and is highly customizable through plugins using the included plugin manager.

Both PSPad and Notepad are only available for Windows. The cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X) editor, supports syntax highlighting for over 200 programming languages and auto indent, as well as a differencing utility, an FTP browser, and block selecting.

It is also extendable using plugins and macros, and there are hundreds of plugins and macros available through the built-in plugin manager feature. For Windows supports syntax highlighting using schemes, both built-in and user-defined, code folding and outlining, a tabbed interface with multi-level split views, and the ability to export to HTML (using CSS) and RTF. If you like the Vi editor in Linux, but prefer a graphical editor that also serves well as a programmer’s text editor, and are good options. They both provide Vi emulation, as well as support for syntax highlighting in many programming languages and code folding.

Editra has a tabbed interface, allows block (un)commenting and (un)indenting, and is extendable using the built-in plugin downloader/installer. Komodo Edit supports background syntax checking and contains a toolbox with shell command integration, macros, and code snippets. Both Editra and Komodo Edit are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Other options include the following:.

– A very small editor for Windows containing a directory tree view window. – A small and fast IDE for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that supports code folding, code navigation, a build system, and a plugin interface. – A fast, light-weight text editor like Notepad for Windows with syntax highlighting and runs as a portable program Microsoft Word Replacements There are also free programs that act as replacements for Microsoft Word.

They can be used as text editors, but they have more formatting features than simple text editors. You can add images and tables, change fonts and color, and insert hyperlinks. Runs on Windows and Linux and can read and write OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, and HTML web pages. It has advanced document layout options such as tables, bullets, numbered lists, images, styles, footnotes, and endnotes. It even has a Mail Merge utility like Microsoft Word. You can extend AbiWord with a variety of plugins, which can be selected when you install AbiWord.

A is also available that you can run from a USB flash drive. Is a small rich text editor for Windows with a high performance rate that allows you to easily create impressive documents. Minimalist Text Editors If you get distracted when you write by the plethora of features in text editors and word processors, you might want to try one of the so-called “minimalist” text editors out there.

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They are “no-frills” editors that either don’t offer any formatting features or many of the other features of modern word processors, and even third-party text editors, or the features are hidden until you want them. Without all the fancy features staring you in the face, you can concentrate on the task of writing. Below is a list of some of the minimalist text editors we found. – Available for Windows, requires.NET Framework 2.0, and is available as a portable program. – Available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. – Available for Windows and as a portable program.

– Available for Windows and as a portable program. – Available for Windows and as a portable program. – Available for Windows and Linux. – Available for Linux. – Available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and as a for Windows You can even download for free and run it under in Windows.

If you want a simple text editor with the ability to count down from a set word count, try for Windows. If you have to write a certain number of words, yEdit2 can make it easier.

Secure Text Editors You can also use a text editor as secure place to store private information. There are several text editors that either include encryption as a feature or are specially designed for securely storing text., mentioned in the Programmer’s Text Editors section above, allows you to add encryption functionality using the plugin, which is available through the. SecurePad will encrypt selected text in the current document or the whole document. Is a small, simple method for securely storing chunks of information in files. For example, if you purchase a download-only program, you can use LockNote to store the product key or serial number that goes with that program in the same folder, so you always know where to find it. – Available for Windows and as a portable program.

CryptoTE– Available for Windows and Linux, and as a portable program for Windows. – Available for Windows as a portable program. – Available for Windows. – Available for Windows and as a portable program LaTeX Editors Do you write a lot of scientific papers, documents, or books? If so, there are several text editors that allow you to easily use TeX/LaTeX (document markup language and document preparation system) through a graphical interface to create mathematical content and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. – Available for Windows and as a portable program.

– Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. – Available for Windows. – Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X and as a portable program on Windows and Mac OS X. – Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X Novel Writing Editor There’s even an editor that’s meant for writing novels, called, available for Windows. It breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you to keep track of your work. However, yWriter5 does not suggest plot ideas, character names, or write any part of your novel for you.

The creative task of writing is still up to you, yWriter5 just makes it easier. One more text editor to mention is, which is an easy-to-use text editor you run directly on the command line. Nano is installed by default in Ubuntu and many other Linux distros, and is easier to learn than Vi or emacs.

OK, I'm sorry if I have been stuck on the theme of website creation lately, but the TUAW inboxes have been inundated with emails from readers who are concerned about the. One of our readers, Mickey, wrote to say that 'I'm a former Mac user who was forced to switch to PC and has since come back to the Mac. In the interim, however, I have created a personal webpage (mostly for family).

I've got hosting and a domain and all that, and I have coded it in. The way I see it, I have two options 1) use Boot Camp or VMWare Fusion to continue writing the webpage in FrontPage or 2) find a Mac program that might be at least relatively amenable to importing the HTML code from FrontPage.'

Mickey wanted to redesign his website in iWeb, but had concerns about the future viability of the app. For that reason, and the fact that being able to edit his existing website on the Mac would keep him from having to do a complete reboot of the site, I figured he needed a Mac replacement for FrontPage - a Windows application that has been abandoned by Microsoft. I've compiled a list of ten possible candidates to replace FrontPage with lovely Mac goodness.

FrontPage was one of the first (What You See Is What You Get) website tools that allowed you to design a page by moving elements around while it handled writing the HTML code behind the scenes. If you're looking into a way to move to Mac but still need to keep up a website that you originally created in the dreaded Land of Windows, then you'll find this list of Mac HTML editors to be very useful. 1) Panic Coda.

Coda probably has a lot more sophistication than most casual website designers need, but it will read existing HTML files and let you also add CSS style sheets. There's a free trial download available on the Panic website. Update: Several astute commenters pointed out that Coda is not a WYSIWYG editor. Instead, it's a full-powered text and code editor with the ability to display a preview of your edited work. 2) Kompozer.

This is a branch of the abandoned Nvu Open Source HTML editor that has been updated fairly regularly and is free. Never used it, so I can't vouch for it. The screenshot below is for the Windows version, but the user interface for the Mac edition is similar. Flux (£69.95) is a fairly powerful CSS / Javascript / HTML editor, with a free trial download. Once again, I've never used it - but if you want to update your site into HTML5 goodness for the future, it's probably a good way to go.

Potential Flux users shouldn't be worried if they don't know much about CSS, as the application is a wonderful way to get your feet wet in terms of style sheets. There's a very thorough available for download as well. 4) W3C Amaya If you want a tool that will let you both browse and author web pages, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has a freebie editor available for download. For former FrontPage users, this app seems appropriately low-key and quite simple to use. 5) Mozilla SeaMonkey Made by the folks who created Firefox, SeaMonkey is not only an HTML editor, but has a lot of built-in Internet tools including a web feed reader, IRC chat client, etc.

Update: The most recent version of SeaMonkey was delivered only five days ago. 6) Adobe Contribute Back in the early 2000s, I had several sites that had been developed in FrontPage and needed to be maintained. Macromedia Contribute was a powerful tool, although sometimes frustrating. It's $199, and might be a bit of overkill for many casual users in terms of price and capability. 7) Freeway Express Freeway Express is a wonderful Mac HTML editor with a surprisingly complete feature set.

It's $69 for this low-end version, or you can upgrade to the even more powerful Freeway Pro ($229) if you need more capabilty. Trial versions of each are available for download. 8) Adobe Dreamweaver This is the design tool for professionals. It has a steep learning curve and an equally steep price tag ($399), but for a top-of-the-line web design package, Dreamweaver is the choice. 9) Quanta Gold Considering that the web page for this app shows that it is now 'Mac OS X ready', it looks like it hasn't been updated for a long, long time. There is a free demo version available for download, and the price if you decide to buy it is $39.95. 10) BlueGriffon A free WYSIWYG content editor based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.

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Free is always good! Update: Before anyone asks where RapidWeaver and Sandvox are, note that although they do have the capability to edit RAW HTML, they're both predominantly used to design new websites from scratch using built-in templates and then maintain those sites. Those two solutions were covered in my previous post, '.' Also, you may wish to look at several other editors, some of which aren't really WYSIWYG, but are favorites of some of the bloggers here at TUAW: sells for $29.99 in the and is an amazing HTML5 WYSIWYG editor., it's gaining rave reviews and can be used to. ($9.99) is another package from the Hype developers. It's a code and text editor in the same vein as Coda.

Very similar to HyperEdit is ($24.99), which has a component library that can add amazing features to an HTML document. Was a huge miss on my part. It's also a code editor more than a true WYSIWYG tool, and it's available from the MacRabbit website for $79.99. As usual, if you have a favorite Mac WYSIWYG HTML editor and wish to let other readers in on your personal choice, leave a comment below. Good luck, Mickey!