Best Text Editor for Windows

[Fabienne]

I have been using TopStyle 3 for years, before that Homesite (now defunct) which I loved. It's 2010 and I feel the need for a new text editor which can handle things like HTML5, PHP and the usual software which you use (Photoshop, FTP {which I would love to have built in}, and the browsers you need, etc.). I am using a Windows set up and can't change that. What do you like, what do you suggest?

I have tried Dreamweaver and I am a lot better with the text editor sort of thing than I am with WYSIWYG set ups.

I would like a few luxuries with it like tag finishing, snippets, FTP, the ability to preview your work before putting it up.

 

[X1Lightning]

Eclipse does what you are looking for

and its free

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Notepad++ is an absolute cracker as far as text editors go, lacks FTP and other frills though.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

 

[angelwatt]

Notepad++ is my main Windows text editor. Sublime is another decent one as well. Then I also recommend getting the Zen Coding plugin for either editor. It makes writing HTML much faster.

 

[Agurri]

I third Notepad++. Not only it's free, but it's also very lightweight.

 

[X1Lightning]

notepad ++ is great, but the OP was asking for code completion and notepad++ does not do that

 

[Fabienne]

How about Komposer? Has anyone tried that one? It was the one I started with long ago and it has an HTML section along with a wysiwyg section. Just curious.

 

[angelwatt]

How about Komposer? Has anyone tried that one? It was the one I started with long ago and it has an HTML section along with a wysiwyg section. Just curious.

As a text editor, it's very limited. As a WYSIWYG HTML editor, it's not bad for free. I have it, but only rarely use it, and not for web pages I publish online, just for local docs that I happen to want into HTML format. Komposer has a habit of reformatting code in ways you don't want to, which gets on my nerve.

 

[elppa]

Not saying they are best, but here are a couple for consideration:

E Text Editor
Sublime Text

Both available with demos, although you will eventually need to pay.

 

[Fabienne]

I did use Evrsoft First Page for a while but it seems that it collapsed. Too bad but it was a bit too good to be true.

 

[elppa]

I've got another one for you: Intype.