Free Text Editors

A list of text editors for programming.
This document instanciated 1-Dec-2000. Updated 6-Mar-2007.

for Linux

Kate (for KDE desktop environment)
Kate syntax file
Kate syntax readme

for Windows

CREdit
SynEdit
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 (older; rebol syntax file is built in now)
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
Works on Win32 and Linux. How to enable Rebol syntax highlighting
Emacs

for OSX

SubEthaEdit

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
EmEditor Rebol syntax generator
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):

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)