Notepad++

Original Name: Notepad++
Webpage: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
Latest Version: 5.4.5
Available for MAC?: No.
Available for GNU/Linux?: Under Wine. Check here.

Notepad++ is one of those best text editors out there. It's open-source (as well as everything we like to share and use), and having that in mind, it happens like always, it has a cool community behind that makes plugins, translations and many other stuff that are available for the original binaries.

However, it's designed just for Windows, but it will run without any problem under Wine for GNU/Linux, and probably also for Mac, but i've not personally tested. Based on Scintilla and written in C++, it allows you to write your code and/or edit whatever text file you want, without any problem.

Because it's mainly for that, programming-oriented with colored sintaxis, with zoom, a great searching&replace feature, multi-document view (so you can check for duplicates), and you can even use macros with it.

But of course, having in mind that community, you can find tons, tons of translations of it so you can use Notepad++ on your own language. Pretty funny to find even Català language between them. Also, there is a tool that's pretty interesting, if you want to replace the actual Windows notepad with this Notepad++, following some easy guide.

Anyway, one of the things that I like most of Notepad++ is the Wiki community, with great additions that you can use directly on your binaries, and between them we have CCompletion, the one that uses the Exuberant Ctags that we were explaining yesterday (On Notepad++, it's just Ctrl+Space and you will get the completion). I encourage you to check all the other plugins, and you'll see how cool can this be.

But well, this is it, and by far is my best text editor at the moment. Want to download it and give it a shot?
- Download: Here. (MD5)
- Sources: Here.

This reminds me of a conversation i had some months ago, with an old-school programmer that, when i told him about this program, he just said: "Real programmers don't need highlighting. I've been programming on a Paper or under Vi for ages". But well, even though he's right on his argument, it's cool anyway :-P