Top 5 text editors for windows

sometime we need to write something more than simple sentences , for e.g.. we want to  write a whole new web page in html then windows default notepad isn’t good enough to enhanced our productivity. so that time we need a advance text editor with some extra features

TEXT EDIT

 

key features we look for in advance text editor

• Code coloring , syntax highlighting  ( it means it understand the language you are trying to write e.g.. html, css, python etc. )
• Easley navigate whole project  ( Tabs , open as project functions etc. )
• Good search and replace features
• Auto-pairing of brackets, parentheses , and quotes
• code completion
• customizable document and code coloring

we picked up 5 text editors and tested them  for above features
and here is the list

1 : Etext editors (commercial $50 , 30 day free trial  )

e text editor is based on textmate  , which is most popular text editor  for mac.it has nice features such as bracket complete and  function highlighting etc. 
Homepage : http://www.e-texteditor.com/
download page : http://www.e-texteditor.com/download

2 : Notepad ++ (Open Source / Free )

this is second most advance text editor very famous in windows . it has really good community and its also has really nice plugins 
Homepage :http://notepad-plus-plus.org
download page : http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/
             

3: vim (open source / free )

enhanced version of unix inbuilt text editor “VI” , mostly every unix user prefer vim  and its available for windows also
Homepage : http://www.vim.org
Download Page :      http://www.vim.org/download.php
         

4 : ConTEXT (open source / free )

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, and its also has a portable version . so its really handy to use from one to another system just install it on a portable drive (e.g usb pen drive , portable hdd).
Homepage :http://www.contexteditor.org/
Download page :     http://www.contexteditor.org/downloads/      
           

5 : jEdit  (open source / free)

Last in our top 5 . jEdit has many good plugins support highly configurable open source text editors. .
Homepage : http://www.jedit.org
Download Page :   http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download
               


There are many other text editor which are also available but these stand better in competition. explore them use them and if you found something interesting and you want to share with us do send us a message.