12款免费的文本编辑器

You can make writing code as complicated as you want, but at  the end of the day, all you really need isyour  favorite, trusty text editor. You can use a simple one like Microsoft’sNotepad, but oftentimes it’s  helpful to have a text editor that has syntax highlighting/coloring, support for  multiple languages,  a robust find and replace feature, and other  features and options that make writing code just a tad bit easier.

If you’re in search of a good, free text editor – you’ve come to the right place. Below  you’ll find12 first-class free text  editors that are designed with coders’ needs in mind. Whether you use a  Windows, Mac, or Linux machine – you’ll find a few options here that will  satisfy your code-authoring needs.

NOTEPAD++

(Windows)

NOTEPAD++ is the  premier replacement for Microsoft’s Notepad. It has an auto-completion feature  (for most supported languages) that guesses what you’re trying to write, a  tabbed interface which is great for working with multiple files without  cluttering your task bar, a powerful RegEx find-and-replace feature, code  folding, support for a large array of languages (even Assembler!) and much  more. These are just some of the features that make NOTEPAD++ my personal default  text editor.

Bluefish Editor

(Mac, Linux)

Bluefish Editor is  a robust, open source text editor geared towards programmers and web designers.  It’s known as being a fast, lightweight text editor that can open 500+  documents with ease. It has a built-in function reference browser (for PHP,  Python, CSS, and HTML) so you can quickly learn about with particular syntaxes.   Check out theScreenshots section to find movies/screencasts (such as learning about working with remote files)  and screen shots of Bluefish Editor.

TextWrangler

(Mac)

TextWrangler is a  multi-purpose text editor for the Mac OS. It is a programmer-friendly  text editor andUnix/Server  Admin text editor. It has a useful "plugin" system allowing  developers a way for extending TextWrangler’s built-in features. It also has a function browser so that you can quickly find and jump to the function you’re looking  for (very helpful for those really long files). 

Smultron

(Mac)

Smultron is an  easy-to-use text editor. Its simple interface makes it perfect for the  minimalist coder. It has the basic features you’d expect from a text editor  such as syntax highlighting/coloring but also has cool, helpful features such  as the ability to split the viewing pane in two so that you can view files  side-by-side, a code snipplet library to allow you to store your often-used  code blocks, and a full-screen mode that’s intended to make you focus on the  task at hand.

Caditor

(Windows)

Caditor is an open  source portable text editor written in the .NET framework (C#) that puts speed  and performance at the forefront of its design. It has a convenient search box  built into the tool bar of the text editor’s interface so that you don’t have  to open another dialog box to perform a search. It has other handy features common to  developer-oriented text editors such as line numbering, a compiler feature to  allow you to hook it up with your compiler, and FTP feature.

gedit

(Linux)

gedit is the  official text editor of the GNOME desktop.  Unlike Microsoft’s built-in text editor (Notepad), gedit is a more  feature-packed text editor geared towards usage for programming and mark-up. With  its syntax highlighting, tabbed interface for editing multiple files, and  spell-checking feature – gedit is an excellent, free text editor for coders.

GNU Emacs

(Windows, Mac, Linux)

GNU Emacs (more  commonly referred to simply as Emacs) is a cross-platform, extendible text  editor geared towards programmers. One of its defining features is Emacs’s ability  to be extended – offering you the ability to use it as yourproject planner anddebugger,  among other things. It has a file-comparison feature (M-x ediff) that  highlights differences between two files (useful for figuring out changes in a  file made by coders who don’t document/comment their revisions).

Crimson Editor

(Windows)

Crimson Editor is a light-weight text  editor for Windows that supports many languages. It has a "Macros"  features which lets you record a sequence of tasks so that you can reuse the  sequence with a click of a button. It has a built-in FTP feature, allowing you  to upload/download files from your FTP server. Crimson Editor is a solid option  for Windows users.

ConTEXT

(Windows)

ConTEXT is another  excellent, light-weight, freeware (meaning it’s free – but close-sourced) text  editor for Windows. It has countless of handy features such as text sorting  (helpful when you need to sort things in alphabetical order, for example),  ability to export configuration options so that you can share your  configuration or import it into several machines, and a macro recorder for  repeating a sequence of tasks. In 2007, ConTEXT development was turned over to  David Hadley but continues to be freeware.

SciTE

(Windows, Linux)

SciTE, written on  top of the open source Scintilla code-editing component, is a speedy text editor aimed for use in source code  editing. It has a standalone .exe version which you can use for portable  storage drives (i.e. USB flash drives) so that you can conveniently carry it  around and use it on any computer without having to install it. SciTE is a  compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems and has been tested by the  developer on Windows XP and on Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 7.10.

Komodo  Edit

(Windows, Mac, Linux)

Komodo Edit is a  freeware, cross-platform text editor created by ActiveState. It is a  simple text editor based on the popular integrated development environment – Komodo IDE.  It has a convenient and flexible Project Manager feature to help you organize  and keep track of your project files.

jEdit

(Windows, Mac, Linux)

jEdit is a text  editor that specifically caters to programmers. It’s written in Java and runs  on any operating system that supports You can download a ton of plugins (check  out thePlugins Central on  jEdit’s website) to extend its built-in features. jEdit was designed to combine  the best features of Windows, Mac, and Unix text editors.

Additional Resources

• Comparison of  text editors (Wikipedia)
• Hive  Five: Best Text Editors (Lifehacker)

What do you think?

There’s a ton of text editors out there so be sure to share  your experiences and opinions on the text editors above, andif your favorite  isn’t on the list – please tell us about it in the comments.