Free Text Editors

A list of text editors for programming.
This document instanciated 1-Dec-2000. Last updated 12-Jul-2010.

for Linux

Kate (for KDE desktop environment)
Kate syntax file (cached 27-Feb-2004) (Original link, noticed broken 24-Jul-2009: Kate syntax file)
Kate syntax readme (cached 22-Aug-2004) (Original link, noticed broken 24-Jul-2009: Kate syntax readme)
WISH Supernotepad 2009

for Windows

CREdit
SynEdit (cached 2002-06-11)
SynEdit (Old, original link noticed broken probably 2002)
ConTEXT
ConTEXT Rebol syntax highlighter file
NoteTab Light
Crimson Editor Crimson Editor is very similar to EditPlus and can be a more free replacement
How to set up Crimson Editor for REBOL
Crimson Editor Rebol syntax file (broken link noticed 24-Jul-2009) (older; rebol syntax file is built in <2007)
PSPad

cross-platform

Vim
Works on many flavours of Unix, AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, MachTen, OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000)
SciTE (I've been using this for a couple years; 24-Jul-2009)
Works on Win32 and Linux. How to enable Rebol syntax highlighting
Emacs
Programmer's Notepad

for OSX

misc.

EditPlus Rebol syntax file (EditPlus is not free, and syntax is core only at the moment.)
UltraEdit32 Rebol syntax file provided by Jason Cunliffe 19-Nov-2001 (not free) UltraEdit32 for Win32
EmEditor Rebol/View syntax file (broken link, noticed 24-Jul-2009)
EmEditor Rebol syntax generator. Also on rebol.org
SubEthaEdit Rebol syntax file

My rebol template file

How to enable Rebol syntax highlighting in SciTE

The following works with SciTE version 1.66 (but probably applies to other versions too).

By default REBOL support is not activated, so to enable that (for example on linux, similar on windows):

Edit /usr/share/scite/SciTEGlobal.properties file ( MenuBar Options > Open Global options File)
Search for the line "#import rebol.properties" and remove "#".
Save changes (SciTE must be launched from a root terminal.)
Edit /usr/src/rebol.properties file.
Go to the last line of this file and set the proper path to your preferred rebol VM version in the
command.go.($file.patterns.rebol)=....
Save the rebol.properties file
( this file can be located from Menubar Options>Edit properties>open rebol.properties).

Once you make all those changes you are able to see rebol color syntax for your beloved rebol scripts.

The scripts are launched into the rebol VM hitting F5 key in SciTE.

You will notice that the color syntax is very more advanced than the Crimson Editor one.

And you have the ability to hide the functions/objects inside code to make easier to read the script code.

For ppl that want even better syntaxe colorization for SCITE
http://shadwolf.free.fr/SciTEGlobal.properties
http://shadwolf.free.fr/rebol.properties

Thanks to Shadwolf for the SciTE information above (which I cleaned/rearranged a bit)