ConTEXT

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. ConTEXT was awarded with Pricelessware 2006 award. Pricelessware award list is the best of the best in Freeware as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware.

Main ConTEXT features include:

• unlimited number of open files
• unlimited editing file size, 4kB line length
• powerful syntax highlighting for:
  • 80x86 assembler
  • C/C++
  • CSS
  • Delphi/Pascal
  • Euphoria
  • Fortran
  • FoxPro
  • HTML
  • InnoSetup scripts
  • Java
  • Java Script
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Perl/CGI
  • SQL
  • Tcl/Tk
  • Visual Basic
  • XML
  • powerful custom defined syntax highlighter
• multilanguage support
• project workspaces support
• unicode UTF-8 support
• code templates
• customizable help files for each file type
• file explorer with favorites list
• file compare
• export to HTML/RTF
• conversion DOS->UNIX->Macintosh file formats
• editing position remembering across files
• macro recorder
• commenting/uncommenting code
• text sort
• normal and columnar text selection
• bookmarks
• search and replace with regular expressions
• search and replace text in all open files
• incremental search with text emphasizing
• C/Java-style block auto indent/unindent
• customizable color printing with print preview
• exporting configuration stored in registry
• customizable syntax highlighting colors, cursor shapes, right margin, gutter, line spacing...
• user definable execution keys, depending on file type
• capturing console applications standard output
• compiler output parser for positioning on error line
• powerful command line handler
• minimize to system tray
• install and uninstall

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