Source Code Editors
BBEdit
BBEdit is a proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software. It was originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and is now available for Mac OS X.
BBEdit is marketed under the trademark slogan, “It doesn’t suck.”
History
The first version of the BBEdit was created as a “proof of concept” for a “bare bones” text editor to replace…
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Bluefish is a web development editor focused towards development of dynamic websites. Bluefish supports development in (among others) HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, Javascript, Java, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python, Ruby, and shell. Bluefish is available on most platforms, including Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, and Windows. Native Windows support, however, is only available for the development series.…
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PSPad editor is a freeware text editor and source editor intended for use by programmers. First released in 2001, this software is produced by the single developer Jan Fiala for the Windows platform.
PSPad has many software development-oriented features, such as syntax highlighting and hex editing, and is designed as a universal GUI for editing many languages including PHP, Perl,…
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Scintilla is an open source library that provides text-editing functions, with an emphasis on advanced features for source code editing. SciTE (cross-platform), Notepad++ (Windows) and Notepad2 (Windows) are standalone editors based on Scintilla.
Features
Scintilla supports many features to make code editing easier in addition to syntax highlighting. The highlighting method allows the use of different fonts, colors, styles and…
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HTML-Kit is an HTML editor for Microsoft Windows made by chami.com. The application is a full-featured HTML editor designed to edit, format, validate, preview and publish web pages in HTML, XHTML and XML -languages.
HTML-Kit is freeware, although extra features are available at a cost to registered users.
An Alpha version, HTML-Kit Tools (previously named build 300), is in development…
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Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for Windows, though it can run on Linux and Mac OS X, using software such as Wine. The primary advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, to easily work with multiple open files.
It is distributed as free software. The project is hosted on SourceForge.net, from…
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NoteTab is a freeware/commercial text editor for Windows. It was developed by Eric Fookes of Fookes Software, Switzerland. The program’s name refers to the fact that it was one of the earliest text-editors capable of editing several open documents on different tabs (tabbed document interface). The first version, known as Mini NoteTab, was released in 1995; version 5 was released…
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PHPEdit is a commercial IDE developed by the French company WaterProof SARL. It is written in Delphi and runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is designed mainly for the PHP language, but supports many other languages such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript, INI, PHPEditScript, PlainText, SQL, XML, and XSLT. PHPEdit currently costs € 89.00; A free license is still…
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skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X (Universal), aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly a software engineer working for Apple Inc.
The key features of skEdit include:
- Tabbed interface
- Project based site management
- Code hinting and completion
- Code folding
- Code snippets
- Syntax highlighting
- File uploading and remote editing (using FTP,
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TopStyle is an CSS/XHTML/HTML editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Nick Bradbury and owned by NewsGator Technologies and now by Stefan van As. The editor is code centric rather than WYSIWYG, with integrated support for previews using either the Mozilla Gecko or Internet Explorer Trident layout engines. The software is available as a commercial version with a trial period, or…
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