What's a good text editor for typing C++ code on Windows?

I've been using notepad but I really don't like it. It's too basic. I know that when I program on campus, on Linux machines, I use a program called GEdit I think. But I'm just wondering if anyone here knows of anything good to use, like GEdit, but for Windows.





Some nice features of GEdit are tabbed windows, and when you save files with a .cpp extension, it turns certain words a different color, such as constructors, methods, and variables.

What's a good text editor for typing C++ code on Windows?
%26gt; I've been using notepad but I really don't like it. It's too basic.





Congratulations. You have discovered why no programmer uses Notepad.





%26gt; I know that when I program on campus, on Linux machines, I use a program called GEdit I think.





http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ and for KDE desktops Kwrite and Kate.





%26gt; But I'm just wondering if anyone here knows of anything good to use, like GEdit, but for Windows.





The Google term is “plain text editor”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tex...


On Windows, there's Notepad++, Vim (or Cream for Vim), PSPad, UltraEdit (costs money), SciTe, and more.





%26gt; when you save files with a .cpp extension, it turns certain words a different color





This is called syntax highlighting. Any half-decent editor has it. Also, consider using an IDE like Code::Blocks or wxDev-C++.
Reply:There used to be somehting called programmers IDE that was pretty good go to download.com and try to find it if not there are other programs similar to it that will work
Reply:Try notepad2


It is a handy little editor.


You can find it at


www.flos-freeware.ch/
Reply:I don't like notepad either I like to go forward and backwards more than one step





a free one


http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/


it validates html too
Reply:dude, notepad! WOW! anyways, download this it's free:





http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html





it's a c/c++ editor and compiler.