EditPlus is indeed a nifty
text editor. The
syntax highlighting is configurable and can cope with
script code embedded in
HTML, highlighting everything correctly.
MSVC doesn't do that, ha! It also has a
groovy "User Tool" feature which will capture
standard output and put it in an "output" window. Everybody does that, but EditPlus is also willing to
pipe the contents of the edit
buffer through a "tool" and back into the
buffer. This is very cool: Two thirds of the features users request on the developers' little message board can be implemented that way if you've got
awk and
sed for
Win32 (
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/download.html).
It's not perfect: The
regular expression thing has a couple of issues (e.g.
/^$/ doesn't match empty lines), but if you can wire
sed into it that's not life'n'death. It also needs an embedded
JavaScript or
Scheme interpreter; there are some limits on what you can do by piping text through
awk.
It's the only
shareware windows
text editor I've yet seen that's professionally done, solid, and generally worth using; hell, I even paid the thirty bucks to register it. There's still nothing
GPL'd, though, so I'm still puttering away on mine whenever I have the time.