TextEdit is a freeware, but abandoned text editing application that can deal with a number of different programming languages. 800 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree TextEdit Review - Download
Atom is a text editor that's obviously designed for coders and programmers with its support for a number of languages and its well thought out layout. 139 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Atom Review - Download
A feature-rich text editor application that supports not only plaintext, but a number of programming languages which can act as a Notepad replacement for Windows: Notepad++ is an excellent text and code editor which is distributed completely free of charge both as freeware and as an open source product. 5.5 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree Notepad Plus Review - Download
An excellent text editor which supports all types of coding, syntax, spellcheck and more: Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. 5.5 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
A free programmers text editor with syntax recognition supporting web languages like PHP, HTML and CSS: Komodo Edit is an excellent, free source code and HTML editor which supports all of the most common programming languages of the web including PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript along with markup languages like HTML and CSS. 52.47 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Komodo Edit Review - Download
Feature-packed code editing suite and integrated development environment with built-in support for the most popular programming languages full with syntax highlighting and a high degree of customization: When it comes to coding, choosing between a text editor or an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is almost like a political statement. 18.4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPShareware Sublime Text Review - Download
Imitation of the UNIX text editor VI developed for Windows PCs with keyboard shortcuts: Vim stands for Vi IMproved. 6.4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
A simple but customizable Notepad replacement tool with a black -- instead of white -- theme and the convenience of multiple tabs for multitasking: Black NotePad is a plain text editor program. 738 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Excellent note-taking and general text editor with formatting powered by Markdown with export to HTML or PDF documents: Mark Text is a simple and elegant markdown editor. 149 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Software to convert between PDF, HTML and Text: Able2Extract (A2E) enables users to view and convert data from PDF, HTML, and Text formats into formatted Excel spreadsheets and Word, HTML, and Text documents. 11.88 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is text editing tool which is suited towards advanced users and programmers. 3.85 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree EditBone Review - Download
Minimalist text editing program relying on Markdown with an array of different themes, modes and support for coding and syntax highlight: With the practical text editor Typora you can concentrate on your work and write texts without unnecessary distractions. 72.6 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Text snippets made available to Windows applications for quickly using common phrases instead of typing them out every time: Beeftext: No more tedious typing. | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Powerful text editor with support for a number of programming languages with syntax highlighting, code folding and enough power for large files: If you spend hours programming with a text editor, UltraEdit is a replacement to Windows notepad. 15.44 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware UltraEdit Review - Download
TeX and LaTeX editor with a WYSIWYG with support for multiple document types including PDF, RTF, HTML and Postscript: LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). 208 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Featured-packed text and source code editor with support for syntax in several languages including HTML, PHP, C, C#, JavaScript and Perl: RJ TextEd is a comprehensive programming and text-based editor, offering Unicode support to facilitate comfortable work on HTML files, PHP, and other text-based formats. 33.4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree RJ TextEd Review - Download
Notepad might be the most famous piece of computer software that anyone's ever created. 14.1 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree CudaText Review - Download
This accessory enables users who do not have a computer running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition to view files that were created in Microsoft Windows Journal on a Tablet PC. 7.0 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Powerful text editing application that supports all of the mainstream programming languages along with a set of tools useful for developers: Kate is a powerful text editor that supports a long list of scripting and programming languages that can highlight code, recognize code and deal with multiple files in its complex user interface. 56 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Kate Review - Download
WriteMonkey is a text editor designed for writers who require little distraction, allowing them to focus solely on writing without other applications getting in the way. 1.8 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree WriteMonkey Review - Download
SciTE is a basic text editor which includes many functions oriented around scripting and programming. 1.4 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree SciTE Review - Download
A capable text editor aimed at programmers and coders, it offers a number of features to improve the efficiency in writing PHP, Python, CSS, HTML and many other markup and software languages: PSPad is a free and portable text editor which supports syntax highlighting for many language including PHP, SQL, ASP and Python, among a long list of others. 3.44 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree PSPad editor Review - Download
Many of the files you download files from the Internet contain descriptive "DIZ" or "NFO" files inside which generally contain ASCII art and text-based logos. 1.1 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree GetDiz Review - Download
An awesome freeware text editor: If you're looking for a word processor that packs a punch, look no further than TED Notepad. 0.16 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree TED Notepad Review - Download
An open source editor for plain text and suitable replacement for Notepad: AkelPad Editor is an alternative Notepad to the one which comes preinstalled with Windows. 0.95 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree AkelPad Review - Download
Basic and general usage text editor application which supports plaintext and web programming languages: EditPad Lite acts as a freeware alternative to the built-in Windows ---- notepad. 9.54 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree EditPad Lite Review - Download
A programmers notepad support several languages with color coding like PHP, C++, Perl and HTML: With so many options for text editors and full-fledged programming development suites available these days for coders, it really just comes to the level of comfort and knowledge of a particular language when choosing which editor to use. 1.6 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree BowPad Review - Download
A programmers text editor with many great features including syntax highlighting for PHP, Perl, C, HTML and other languages: jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. 3.3 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Are you tired of manually searching for specific text strings or performing search and replace tasks on a daily basis? 9 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware RegexBuddy Review - Download
EmEditor is an excellent text editor with full support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 documents. 12.89 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware EmEditor Review - Download
PilotEdit is a powerful text editor geared more towards professionals who need a powerful application as opposed to people who usually use text editors for word processing. 4.77 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware PilotEdit Review - Download
A feature-packed alternative to Windows notepad: Xint is a cool little freeware utility that makes the lives of developers and normal users alike easier. 936 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree xint (notepad alternative) Review - Download
Minimalistic text editing with advanced search and replace feature powered by regex with many powerful filters and query modes: MuseTips Text Filter is a free, lightweight and portable Windows software that lets you read, search and filter text files with ease. 476 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Text and code editor designed for programmers with many features like code highlighting, customization and hotkey support: SynWrite is a handy, easy to use text editor designed to edit programs source codes with such features as syntax highlighting, code folding, tree structure, auto-completion and code templates. 3.2 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
SafePad is a simple free text editor that lets you encrypt your documents using the industry standard FIPS Compliant AES encryption algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard). 1.59 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
Most text editing program and word processing suites include a search-and-replace feature, but very few of them support advanced options for streamlining complicated tasks. 395.31 K | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree TextCrawler Review - Download
Compact NFO Viewer is a fast viewer for NFO files that can turn URLs inside of NFO files in to clickable links. 670 KB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XPFree
A note-taking application which saves everything to a master file: FreeText is a personal note-taking application which is similar in appearance to Windows' notepad. 0.98 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree FreeText Portable Review - Download
Time-saving utility with multiple configuration options that expands text and works with virtually any type of text editor or other application on Windows: espanso is a text expanding application that works as an autocomplete program for developers. 5 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
When looking for work, it is always important to have a good resumé, not only in content but also in presentation. 12.91 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 / Vista / XP / NTShareware Sarmsoft Resume Builder Review - Download
One may often find themselves fumbling around with Windows' notepad. 1.85 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree NoteTab Light Review - Download
A text editor specially designed for editing and viewing NFO information files: NFOPad is a lightweight combined nfo viewer and text editor. 1.18 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree
E is a lightweight and robust text editor for Windows with support for tabbed editing, syntax highlighting (html, xml, php, etc), unicode support, undo and redo history and search and replace. 1.98 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware e Review - Download
TxtEdit is a text editor developed by Swiss programmer Luzius Schneider. 0.84 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware TxtEdit Review - Download
Textor 7 is an advanced free text editor that lets you create documents with rich content. 15.1 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPFree Textor Review - Download
Easy PDF creation: PDF file format has become one of the most used formats when trying to send documents from one person to another. 1.36 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista / XPShareware PDF4U Pro Review - Download