2008 Trend: Best Ultraedit Alternative Free Text Editor You Recommend [closed]

Question

2008 has passed and there are new free software or updates for text editors that can take the place of Ultraedit-32, which is arguably the killer app of commercial text editors.

We all have searched for that perfect editor, tested them, compared them, and eventually stuck with the one we love the most.

Ultraedit-32 features that are powerful that we also look for in alternative text editors are:

• Stable and fast, and the ability to open GB-size files without sacrificing system resources (AKA Direct File Access)
• Find and Replace, supports Regular Expressions. Can Find/Replace among files.
• Column Editing, including the ability to select an empty column and type on all the lines on those columns (Holy Grail of Column Editing).
• IDE Features like Syntax Highlighting, Auto-Completion, Auto-Indent, Templates, and source code navigation.
• Tabbed interface for text files.
• Customizable fonts and colors

To make this Q&A very useful, please indicate:

• Name of Text Editor
• OS Platform of Text Editor
• Website URL
• Your comments

Answer 1

I use Notepad++, which has most of the UltraEdit features (Windows platform).

But the main reason is a deployment one: I know I can just copy it one the desktop of my colleagues, and they can start using it. No setup or registry tweaking involved. It is actually one of the portable applications.

The integration of Scintilla component is quite stable now.