You probably have some powerful IDEs such as Visual Studio or Adobe Dreamweaver installed. But what happen when you just want to edit a single line of code, or maybe you don’t need those advanced features that provided by most IDEs? So, you probably need a simple text editor like Notepad, which is installed by default on a Windows machine.
But, Windows Notepad is too simple and may not enough to handle our daily programming tasks. So, if you are looking for some alternatives for Notepad, then you have come to the right place. Today, we are going to cover 10 free and powerful Windows based text editors pro developers.
1. Notepad++
Notepad++ is an excellent replacement for Notepad. It has a lot of features, such as Syntax Highlighting, Syntax Folding, Auto Completion, Multi Documents tab view, Full Drag and Drop supported, Zoom in and out, Bookmark, Macro Recoding and powerful search feature. Users can have their own custom defined syntax highlighting, and this is among my most favorite feature of Notepad++.
