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Text Editors - Notepad Replacements

SuperEdi Supports Syntax Highlighting and a Scripting Language

SUMMARY: The SuperEdi text editor supports programmer-centric features plus a scripting language allowing for XML validation, document speaking, and a visual HTML color picker.

SuperEdi is a freeware Windows text editor with multi-document support and multi-level undo and redo. Geared toward programmers, the application includes syntax highlighting for a variety of languages including C#, HTML, PHP, and SQL.

Other features include an integrated FTP browser and uploader, text sorting, find and replace with regular expression support, and bookmarks. Frequently-accessed text clips can be added to the "Tools" - "Clips" menu. Plus, HTML documents can be previewed.

Editing an HTML document with SuperEdi

The software also supports a scripting interface with built-in scripts including a visual web color picker, XML validation, and a document text-to-speech reader.

SuperEdi runs on Windows 2000 and above, and a 64-bit version is available. Earlier available versions run on Windows 98, ME, and NT. All are available at the following address:

SuperEdi: http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/

This tip was written regarding SuperEdi v4.2.2 running on a Windows XP system. Features, information, and screenshots for other versions / operating systems may vary.