ConTEXT
Publisher's description: "ConTEXT is small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers. Unlimited open files, unlimited editing file size and line length, syntax highlighting for C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, 80x86 assembler, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, user defineable syntax highlighter, project workspaces, compiler integration, and multilanguage support."
Get the program:Crimson Editor
Publisher's description: "Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk). 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."
Get the program:Cygnus FREE EDITION
Publisher's description: "Cygnus Hex Editor is a powerful file editor for Microsoft Windows. Unlike text editors, which are designed to edit files that contain text data, hex editors allow you to edit files that contain any type of data."
Get the program: http://www.softcircuits.com/cygnus/
EditPad Lite
Publisher's description: "EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze: Large file and long line support. Full Unicode support, including complex scripts and right-to-left scripts. Direct editing of text files using Windows, UNIX, and mac Mac text encodings (code pages) and line breaks. Tabbed interface for working with many files. Unlimited undo and redo for all open files, even after saving. Automatic backup and working copies prevent data loss. Powerful search-and-replace with literal search terms and regular expressions that can span multiple lines."
Get the program:http://www.editpadlite.com/
Emacs
Publisher's description: "GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include: Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available separately."
Get the program:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Free Hex Editor Neo
Publisher's description: "Free Hex EditorNeo is award-winning large files optimized freeware editor for everyone who works with ASCII, hex, decimal, float, double and binary data. Freeware Hex Editor Neo allows you to view, modify, analyze your hexadecimal data and binary files, edit, exchange data with other applications through the clipboard, insert new data and delete existing data, as well as perform other editing actions. Make patches with just two mouse clicks; manipulate your EXE, DLL, DAT, AVI, MP3, JPG files with unlimited undo/redo. Taste the visual operation history with branching. This hex and binary code data editing software utility for Windows includes the following basic functionality: Unlimited Undo/Redo; Find; Replace; Visual History Save and Load; Patch Creation; Clipboard Operations; Bytes, Words, Double Words, Quad Words, Floats and Doubles Edit Mode."
Get the program:http://www.hhdsoftware.com/free-hex-editor
Hexplorer
Publisher's description: "Hexplorer is an editor for viewing/editing files in hexadecimal format. Its unique feature is the ability to interpret and visualize binary data in various ways eg. view as BMP header or FAT32 boot sector. It comes with a built-in pixel viewer to show binaries as bitmaps. It also doubles up as a disk sector editor since it is able to access logical disks under WinNT/2K/XP."
Get the program:http://hexplorer.sourceforge.net/
HxD
Publisher's description: "HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size. The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more. Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.For example, drives and memory are presented similar to a file and are shown as a whole, in contrast to a sector/region-limited view that cuts off data which potentially belongs together. Drives and memory can be edited the same way as a regular file including support for undo. In addition memory-sections define a foldable region and inaccessible sections are hidden by default. Furthermore a lot of effort was put into making operations fast and efficient, instead of forcing you to use specialized functions for technical reasons or arbitrarily limiting file sizes. This includes a responsive interface and progress indicators for lengthy operations."
Get the program:http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Komodo
Publisher's description: "Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it'll be worth your while. Windows, Mac, Linux? Yes. PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML 5, CSS 3? Yes, with (customizable) syntax coloring, folding, background syntax checking, and excellent auto-complete and calltips (we call it "code intelligence"). What else? Fast open (no more slow poking around for files); remote file editing; Vi keybindings (good ones); and a toolbox with shell command integration, macros and code snippets... all wrapped around a tricked-out editor and an extension mechanism the same as Firefox's."
Get the program:http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
Notepad++
Developer's description: "Notepad++ is a free (under the GPL license) source code editor which supports several programming languages under Windows environment. It's also a lightweight replacement of Notepad. The supported languages by Notepad++ are: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC file, makefile, nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, Unix Shell Script, Fortran, NSIS and Flash action script. Notepad++ main features are: Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, User Language Define System, Regular Expression Search, WYSIWYG (If you have a color printer, print your source code in color), Unicode support, Full drag-and-drop supported, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, 2 edits and synchronized view of the same document, User Language Define System."
Get the program:NoteTab Light
Publisher's description: "NoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor."
Get the program:www.notetab.com/
PDF-XChange Viewer
Publisher's description: "Those wishing to View/Modify or perform simple editing of PDF files on their Windows PC's now have a FREE pdf reader alternative to the Adobe Reader! The PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than any other FREE PDF Reader/ PDF Viewer/ PDF Editor available."
Get the program: http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
PSPad Editor
Publisher's description: "PSPad - editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems. The universal freeware editor, useful for people who: work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker, create web pages - as a web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools that save your time, want to use a good IDE for their compiler - PSPad catches and parses compiler output, integrates external help files, compares versions and much more... There is no complex installation process, PSPad is ready to work immediately without requiring customization. The editor supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion... these are just some of the many features that PSPad offers."
Get the program:http://www.pspad.com/
TextMaker Viewer
Publisher's description: "Opens, views, and prints these document types: .docx, .docm Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010, .dotx, .dotm Microsoft Word 2007/2010 templates, .doc Microsoft Word 6.0 up to Word 2010, .dot Microsoft Word templates 6.0 up to 2010, .tmd TextMaker 6.0 up to 2010, .tmv TextMaker templates 6.0 up to 2010, .odt OpenDocument Text, .ott OpenDocument Text templates, .sxw OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Text, .rtf Rich Text Format, .psw Pocket Word (Pocket PC), .pwd Pocket Word (Handheld PC), .htm, .html HTML documents, .txt Plain-text files (DOS, Windows, Unicode, UTF-8, many more)."
Get the program: http://www.officeviewers.com/
TotalEdit
Publisher's description: "TotalEdit is a powerful notepad replacement and text editor. Packed full of features to help everyone from office workers, journalists through to programmers and web site editors. It is perfect for editing web sites (including PHP, HTML, Javascript, Ruby, JSP), file and hex editing, programming and AutoCad development with support for AutoLISP and DCL. It can help you work faster with features including Auto-Completion, Code-Folding, Language specific Syntax-Coloring, Plug-in External Compilers like Javac, Preview Web Pages, fully customizable environment, spell checker and much more. Best of all TotalEdit is free for commercial and non-commercial purposes (its freeware)."
Get the program:http://www.independencesoftware.co.uk/
WebDwarf
Publisher's description: "100% drag-and-drop editing, Templates, Built-in graphics, creation and editing, Spell checker, Built-in Publisher (publish to any webhost), No advertising, Completely Free. WebDwarf is our free web page builder for the creation and publishing of Web pages. With WebDwarf drag-and-drop page builder you do not need to know HTML, just layout your page by placing and moving your images and text wherever you want with the click of your mouse. Create backgrounds, rotate objects, spell-check your work. When you're done, use the built-in Publisher to upload your page to whatever webhost you choose to use."
Get the program:http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/