Best Text Editors for Windows (2018)

Notepad++

• Source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
• Lightweight, Custom Language Definitions, Auto-saving, Autocompletion.

 

Atom

• You can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file.
• Modern, approachable, and hackable to the core.

 

Sublime Text

• Sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose – any kind of text file.

 

Vim

• Vim (“Vi IMproved”) is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content.

 

GNU Emacs

• Extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
• At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions.

 

Notepad2

• Fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting.
• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Latest version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012.

 

Text Edit Plus

• Edit text files, generate word lists, quick stats and more.
• Designed as an alternative to Notepad, by offering a wider set of features.