DesyEdit: Free Source Code and Plain Text Editor

DesyEdit is a free source code editor and plain text editor Windows. It also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as C/C++, Java, SQL, HTML, with syntax highlighting, macro recording, FTP support, project support, etc.

DesyEdit is written in C++ and it not only uses less system resources but also loads very fast. You can say it is a good replacement for Notepad.

Lets look at some of the many features of DesyEdit:

• Fast loading time
• HEX edit: You can edit binary file using DesyEdit’s HEX mode. Also supports Undo/Redo in binary mode.
• FTP client: You can edit and save files directly from FTP.
• Column mode editing: switch between column mode and line mode.
• Macro recording and playback: You can save several macros and edit their keyboard shorcuts for next use.
• Print & Print preview
• Find & Replace: You can replace specified text one by one, or as a whole.
• Bookmarks
• Syntax highlighting
• Document Fomat conversion: You can easy convert to upper case, to lower case, invert case, tab to space, space to tab.
• Internal File Browser
• read only mode
• insert date
• full screen mode
• always on top

You can also edit multiple documents using DesyEdit. For example, you can switch between documents using file selection tab. When you press ctrl+Tab it will bring the last accessed document to the top.

Also Desyedit has Auto-detection file format. For example, if you open a file written in a different Operating system like Windows, Unix, or Mac, DesyEdit will easily be able to detect the operating system. Not only detect but DesyEdit can also convert the file format from one to the other.

You can also check out other similar articles like TED Notepad, Metapad and PSPad.

Overall DesyEdit is a very useful program and is very easy to use. I would suggest it is worth giving a try to.