Note: This site is currently "Under construction". I'm migrating to a new version of my site building software. Lots of things are in a state of disrepair as a result (for example, footnote links aren't working). It's all part of the process of building in public. Most things should still be readable though.

Notepad

Another fine piece of open source (read free) software: Notepad ++ I found this one via the afore mentioned osalt.com while looking for a replacement for UltraEdit. Both applications are plain text editors. In the past UltraEdit was the main program that I used to do my programming. Even though these programs only edit text files, they do a whole lot for programmers. Things like syntax highlighting and auto complete make it much easier to deal with the files. Notepad ++ like UltraEdit is windows only. If you are on windows and you need a good, free text editor, I'd give it a try.