Free Text and File Editors
Programmers Notepad
Programmers Notepad is a Windows (Win32) text editor featuring syntax highlighting, project management, and so on.
QJot
QJot is a relatively small, completely USB compatible, alternative rich text editor that saves .doc files, inserts images and more. It is basically meant to serve as a good WordPad replacement
TED Notepad
TED Notepad for Windows is a freeware text editor, looking and behaving mostly like the original Windows Notepad with a lot of extra features and functions for text editing.
PSPad freeware editor
PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor. It features syntax highlighting and contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl. It also has a built in hex editor, macro recorder and other features.
Notepad2
The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.
NEdit
NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. As of version 5.1, NEdit may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
metapad
metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more
jEdit
Written in Java, so it runs on MacOS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows, jEdit features a built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture; dozens of macros and plugins available; auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 80 languages.
HAPedit
HAPedit is an acronym for Html Asp Php editor; a text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages.
NoteTab Light 4.82
Free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor.
GNU Emacs
Editor and development environment that can be downloaded with Java Development Environment(JDE v 2.2.1) preconfigured in one .zip file.
syn Text Editor
syn is an Open Source Text- and Programming Editor with Syntaxhighlight for many Languages, and some IDE Features, like starting a program (e.g. Compiler) and capture the output, support for Projects etc.
Crimson Editor
While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java.
Araneae
Araneae is a text editor for html files with syntax highlighting, unlimited document length, drag-and-drop image support, instant browser preview, multiple documents open at once via a tabbed interface, and support for multiple languages. Freeware for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
EDXOR
"EDXOR is a versatile, convenient and optimal text editor and file processor that far surpasses the capabilities of other Notepad-like applications. It offers innovative clipboard handling, cryptographic options and logic text conversions, great for education, fun, or privacy. It provides over 90 menu items, including many unique functions and options, for diverse applications." Freeware for Windows.
Notepad And 1/2
A Notepad replacement for Windows with many features including RTF support.
SuperEdi
SuperEdi is a simple text editor that supports multiple edit windows. It comes with an integrated file and directory browser, a launch bar for frequently accessed programs. Requires Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
AEdiX Suite
AEdiX an advanced editor for website developers with multiple file support, fast search toolbar, syntax hightlighting for 13 differnet languages, advanced template scripting system based on object pascal. Unlimited file size, HTML Tidy integration etc
UniRed
UniRed is a unicode plain text editor for Windows that supports many program languages, including HTML, C/C++, Delphi, Java and others.
ConTEXT
ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers
Program Text Editor v.1.00
Program Text Editor v.1.00 is a simple text editor to edit text parts of program files or other binary files. It's also possible to edit wide character text - resource part of a program (text in Menu items, Buttons etc.).
J for Windows
J is a programmer's editor written entirely in Java and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Assembler Edit
A better notepad than NotePad (when dealing with assembler programming)
jEdit
Open Source programmers text editor.
FTE Text Editor
FTE is a free (licensed under the GNU GPL) text editor for developers. It is really powerful, yet very easy and intuitive to use.
SC UniPad
SC UniPad is a Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows ME and Windows XP operating systems.
vim
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Yudit
Yudit is a free (Y)unicode text editor for Linux.