Reputation: 1929

Sweet & simple source code editor

Can you advise a simple light source code editor for Windows and Mac?

I do not want it to have to take the whole project the file came from into context or provide any project management or integrated debugging features. I just want to take a quick but informative view at a single source code file with some syntax highlighting and i am sick of having to wait for VS or Xcode to start every time. For example, under Linux i would use Kate or Vim so something similar is preferred.

Upvotes: 1

Answers (9)

JPS

Reputation: 526

Also for windows, I would recommend ConTEXT. It's free, simple, lightweight, and you can plug-in many different highlighters for different languages. You can even make your own, or tune existing ones.

Cheers.

Upvotes: 1

mahboudz

Reputation: 39376

BBEdit for Mac. TextWrangler is a free subset of BBEdit.

Upvotes: 0

Bingy

Reputation: 644

GVIM is also an option. it has a few options that suit a mouse environment over regular vim.

SCITE is excellent for the windows environment, but I have not used it in a mac environment.

Upvotes: 0

Ekin Koc

Reputation: 2997

Mac: TextWrangler Win: Notepad++

Upvotes: 0

jeroenh

Reputation: 26772

notepad2 is what I use for this. Ideal for quick peek in source files, I also use it from time to time to make quick changes without opening a full-blown IDE.

It's a lightweight notepad replacement with syntax highlighting (based on scintilla, the same component as Notepad++).

Upvotes: 0