Hello,
just was wondering, what is the best text editor to use?
I was using "notepad" but I want to be able to organize with color and such
so I tried "word pad" but for some reason, it doesn't display right..
Then I downloaded notepad++ but didn't like it, to complex, and it did the color scheme for me.
What is a simple text editor that I can use..?
Also, I've gotten bored with HTML!
I need ideas. If I can't think of anything, I think I'm going to resort to re-writing what I already have.
Thank-you again for your help.

The editor you are comfortable with is the best. Really. I joke you not. It's personal.

But if you want ideas...
http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EditorIndex

AHHH TO MANY OPTIONS
i just want something basic, like notepad, but something that also allows me to use color, and things like bold..
any thing come to mind?

This one then? It IS able to open more than one document at once. Hope you don't find that too disturbing.
http://www.tinyedit.com/

Go to freeware sites like for example http://snapfiles.com. Check what they have, look at the screen caps, read thge reviews. Download and try the ones you like.

but there's nothing that lets me change the colors!
any other ideas?
thanks for baring with me:)

A plain text editor can't change the colors of text, because plain text doesn't have colors.

Or are you looking for syntax highlighting, where different language syntax is colored differently to make it easy to distinguish between language keywords, variable names, comments, etc.?

i guess that would be it
like have the tags on color, the variable name another, variable value another, and so on
also be able to bold things like the doctype and so forth
do you know of any?

That's what I assumed.

But maybe you are looking for a word processor? Aren't you going to use the editor for writing code, just general writing?

I tried Microsoft works, but that didn't work, displays everything, even the tags. :S

HEY! Do you want the editor for HTML and coding or not?

Uh oh, now I'm confused
shouldn't you be able to use works to write code?

My favorite editor is vim, but it's going to "display everything, even the tags" because that's what text editors do. If it displays something that looks like the browser's view, rather than displaying the tags, then it's a pseudo-WYSIWYG editor, which I don't recommend (especially for beginners).

no no no no no, i eant that when i write my code in microsoft works, and save as an .htm file, and then open it in my browser, the browser shows everything, even the tags, witch it should not....

That's because MS Works is not a text editor. It is creating an MS Works document that displays what you wrote, and its "Save as HTML" function is creating an HTML document that displays what you wrote. It doesn't matter that what you wrote looks like HTML markup.

You need to use a plain text editor. MS Notepad will do, but there are better ones available.

ok, but i still want one that will let be change the color so when i view the html document in the text editor, it will be more organized, no of any?

What do you mean with "change the color"? That tags should have one color, attributes another, text a third? That's syntax highlighting and for example TinyEdit has that. See here: http://www.tinyedit.com/screenshot0.jpg .

yes but it did it all by itself, i wanna pick the colors and stuff

You wanted an editor with a minimal number of features, didn't you?

Honestly, most editors will let you choose the colors yourself. But to find one with configurable syntax highlighting and no more features above the very basic ones, that might be hard. Why can't you use one with a few more features? You don't need to use them.

Syn has a very clean look, if that's what you are looking for.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/syn.html

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Ditch that. I confused it with another one. Syn is actually quite complex.

Yes yes, that will work, its just that I tried one, and it picked a big color scheme form me, which I really did want. Half of it was even done wrong, and colored random parts of the text background :S I thought they might all be like that.