E Text Editor – Best Text Editor on Windows for Your Money
If you’re using a text editor on Windows and it’s not E ($35), do yourself a favor and head over to the product’s web site, watch the screencast, and then download and use the trial version. I’ve been using UltraEdit for a long time, and while it’s a solid solution, E is heading in a direction that UltraEdit isn’t. E has some advanced features that are indespensible (once you realize how useful they are). A fantastic undo (I’ve never seen anything like it – think CVS in your text editor), time saving bundles (like the ability to insert HTML doctypes with a few key presses), and the fact that it “understands” the semantics of the text you write (watch the screencast to see what I mean) are just a few of the reasons it’s such a joy to use. And the bottom line: it saves me time.
Of course, UltraEdit has a file comparison utility too (UltraCompare), but I tend to use Araxis for that purpose, as it has a much cleaner interface and the diff’s are so much easier to understand.
So what are you waiting for? Go check out E (and Araxis, while you’re at it)!
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I liked a lot E – editor when I tried last time. It is very similar to Textmate, which is a really good text editor on OS X. It even reuses textmate’s bundles – brilliant idea. At the end I decided to purchase textmate, but I guess I will go ahead and purchase e for windows editing, because sometimes launching VS.NET for editing small files is just an overkill.
I actually should post a follow up to this, but after using E longer, I’ve decided it’s not the greatest thing since sliced bread (although it is still pretty good). It’s kind of a memory hog and can slow down sometimes, and I wish there were more shortcut keys by default (I hate having to create all the mappings myself). Now that I’ve come to understand E’s strengths and weaknesses more, I find myself splitting text editing between E and UltraEdit.