Previously, we have gone over text editors the likes of Editra, a cross platform editor, and InType, an editor with a tabbed interface. Today we shall review and compare another advanced text and programming editor called SynWrite. It supports source code programming in over 70 languages (which include JAVA, C++, C, Cobol, Pascal, Perl, HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, etc.) and writing in over 80 file extensions (TXT and extensions allocated to the languages it supports). Like InType, it is a TDI-based interface and thus can open multiple files in new tabs. It supports a tree panel that keeps track of all code groups and provides links to them as well as a clipboard panel that stores all instances of copied text which can then be selected and used as you wish. It can also expand and collapse (i.e. show and hide) portions of the written code as you wish.
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WebEdit: Use Text Expansion & Integrate Code Snippets Into Notepad++
Notepad++ is a light-weight, yet powerful application development IDE that supports a great number of native and third-party plugins to speed up the application development process. If you are a web developer, and looking for a way to create text expansion functions and code templates in order to quickly use them in code files, WebEdit is just what you probably need. It’s small Notepad++ extension that includes all commonly used code templates with an option to create new code templates and edit existing ones. The extension is highly customizable in terms of configuring the code completion and template settings; it saves the settings and code templates in a ‘WebEdit.ini’ file, allowing you to share it with other Notepad++ users. Unlike other code completion and template collection managers, it has the ability to send the code templates to Notepad++ toolbar, so that you can write specified code template with a click.
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InType: Advanced Text & Programming Editor With Built-In Code Sample Library
We have previously covered a lot of text editors like Editra, a cross platform text editor, EditPad, a customizable tabbed text editor, and medit, a configurable programming text editor with multiple panes. Today, we bring to your another text editor, Intype, that allows you to perform advanced text editing. It includes a host of sample code modules of several programming languages including HTML, CSS, C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, XHTML and more. Using these sample code structures, you can easily start working on your application development projects, as you won't have to define and set the structure of the document. Moreover, it comes with a theme library and language grammars, project manager to quickly access finished work and work in progress. More about Intype after the break.
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Highlight: Convert Source Code Into Formatted, Syntax Highlighted Text
Highlight is a powerful source code formatter and highlighter that supports more than 150 programming languages, and provides multiple color themes to export code modules into HTML, RTF, XML, LaTeX and TeX format. Since software IDE and development platforms offer support for only a few programming languages, you can use this application to highlight and understand the syntax of any language, and share the code files with highlighted syntax with others to help them understand the programming language code structure. Apart from applying syntax highlighting, it has the ability to convert the source code into formatted text with proper & clear indentation. Highlight is an extensible application, and allows adding plugins, written in LUA framework, to extend the built-in functions, as well as add new features.
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MarkdownPad: Fully Customizable Markdown Editor With Live Preview
Markdown is a text-to-HTML filter which translates an easy-to-read and easy-to-write structured text format into HTML. MarkdownPad is a feature-rich Markdown editor for Windows which is fully customizable and shows live preview of the changes as you make them. With keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons, you get quick access to Markdown syntax and formatting. Fonts, sizes, color schemes, and HTML style sheets provide complete customization of your document.
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Create, Debug, And Run C# Scripts With CSDirect
It can be quite a hassle to test, debug, and run C # scripts in Visual Studio, as sometimes it takes too much time to open project and test individual scripts. To quickly compile C# scripts without having to open Visual Studio or define Import and references lists, you can use previously featured standalone application, called FastSharp which lets you compile and run C# code along with VB and F# as well. However, the downside of application is that it doesn’t support syntax highlighting and code auto-completion features, plus you can’t gain access to your custom libraries.
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Editra – Cross Platform Text Editor With Large Code Library & Plugins
Text editors with syntax highlighting support are developed to only perform some basic tasks related with coding, such as, viewing code structure, identify syntax errors, review starting and ending code tags, etc, and are not meant to replace the software development IDEs. If you’re looking for a text editor which provides some extra text editing features compared to the native OS text editor, Editra is a text editor you might’ve been looking for. It’s a freshly baked cross platform text editor, supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux OS platform.
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pdfy Converts Source Code To PDF File On The Go
Need to share programming language source code with your fellow team members? The best and quick method would be to simply copy the source code from IDE to plain text file, and then send it to others. However, this is unproductive and your team members will not be able to view syntax highlighted text. pdfy is a small online source code conversion app which can seamlessly convert source code into PDF file while keeping the syntax highlighting intact, so you can share the PDF file with others without having to worry about the required IDE is installed at recipient’s end or not. This online service apparently supports all major programming languages, including C++, PHP, HTML, Java, etc. The conversion process takes no more than a few seconds to convert code files to PDF format. Once converted, it will create a PDF file with download link to save the converted code file on any local directory.
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CodeCompare Quickly Finds Changes Between Source Code Files
During SDLC, many a times developers need to check different versions of application being developed for changes to write a detailed revision report. Comparing two large code files is relatively difficult, as you need to dry run the code line-by-line to point out any missing statements, syntax error, and other code modules. We’ve featured many text file comparison tools in the past, such as, kDiff3, WinMerge, and Diffuse, but they all lack those hard core features which a software developer may require while doing code comparisons.
If you’re having a hard time comparing two code files manually and need a simple tool that can seamlessly automate the comparison process, try CodeCompare. It’s a dedicated application for performing in-depth comparisons between two code files. Be it ASP, PHP, Java or simple HTML code files, just drop them over and it will point out all the missing snippets within a few seconds. To make the comparison process more quick, it integrates with Windows shell right-click menu, so you can instantly open code files which are to be analyzed for changes. Despite being a powerful code comparison tool, it also allows you to merge two code files, compare two folders, perform lexical comparison, view code inline changes, and bookmark most significant parts of code file.
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Format, Optimize And Clean Up Source Code With Code Chameleon
It is obviously very hectic task to manually clean up source code, scripts, and web pages, according to set programming language definitions and to properly align each type of class, structure and construct contained in your code. One problem which software developers face a lot is removing superfluous tags and characters from code file manually. Since many IDEs generally don't have an in-built cleaning tool to remove such un-necessary characters/tags and to find out logical errors, it becomes indispensable to run the code in development environment to verify it for any type of anomalies that may become a huge problem in forthcoming development stages.
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