Notepad++

One of my favorite scripting tools in Windows is the freeware application Notepad++. It's a fantastic little application at a fantastic price. Some people might prefer SlickEdit, Textpad or EditPlus, but after using Notepad++ for a few days, I'm sure few people will miss the commercial alternatives.



One of the few things I don't like on the Mac is that the text editors are commercial, and highly overrated (um, BBEdit, anyone?). I managed to get TextMate via MacHeist, and it's a solid editor, but it's one of those areas where I just prefer the software on Windows. I do admit that I have been a sucker in terms of trying to find a decent text editing surrogate on the Mac, and yes, I did fork out the big bucks for Coda, but Coda's appeal is really in the integration of text editor, ftp, terminal and coding documentation. In Coda's case, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.

Tags: freeware, text, editor, textmate, bbedit, coda, slickedit, textpad, editplus, windows