In many cases we use a plain text editor, and Windows has a very simple notepad, so we chose the top five best text editors (actually six) from our friends ' voting nominations. These editors are actually designed for programmers to use, and their listings are as follows.
notepad++ (Windows)
A text editor superior to Windows Notepad, completely free and open source, for different programming languages can be implemented syntax highlighting, code folding and macros, customizable very strong.
Emacs (all platforms)
The Emacs text editor is popular with senior programmers, with built-in macro capabilities and powerful keyboard commands, this is a great way to edit code, which is almost ported to every platform and has multiple distributions, the most popular of which are GNU Emacs and XEmacs, which are cross-platform, Completely free and open source.
UltraEdit (Windows)
UltraEdit is a 49.95 dollar shareware, also provides a friendly interface to the programming editor, support syntax highlighting, code folding and macros, as well as a lot of other features, built-in for HTML, PHP and JavaScript and other syntax support, A similar shareware editplus is also good.
TextMate (Mac OS X)
The 63-dollar textmate is powerful and attractive, with an attractive interface that has gained a large number of enthusiasts in just a few short years. Windows users can try to use a similar textmate e-Text Editor if they like textmate.
Vim (all platforms)
Like Emacs, Vim is popular as a keyboard macro, and as a descendant of the famous old Editor VI, VIM is well-suited for keyboard-operated programmers. Vim is highly customizable, and Windows users can try Gvim or Gvim portable , while Mac users have macvim. If you just need a lightweight editor for Vim's most distinctive part, try Cream .
TextPad (Windows)
TextPad, a Windows-based shareware, offers a variety of features for programmers, syntax highlighting, code blocking, and macros, TextPad with good search capabilities and ease of use.