EmEditor 10.0.7

Rated 50/50 by zridling at Dec 4, 2008

Thanks for the clarification zhouzh2. Let's admit this: the Windows platform is blessed with several great text editors, most of which are extremely customizable. If the $40 license cost seems too much, it seems to be a lifetime license, as this is the third version my license has worked on.

Rated 20/50 by dhry at Dec 4, 2008

Notepad++ does pretty much everything this does, and costs $39.99 less to own. If you feel you REALLY need to pay for an editor, go lite with EditPlus for $5 cheaper or max out with UltraEdit for $10 more. $40 for something of this calibre is disgusting.

Rated 40/50 by bigmama at Dec 31, 2008

good editor no need to pay however as notepad++ does the same (and more) and is free.

Rated 40/50 by Roswell at Jan 21, 2009

EmEditor, This is a great editor stable and have many features. However there are better excellent free editor in the net. Like the "JARTE" this one is free and is much powerful and is open source.

Rated 50/50 by jamesh0039 at Feb 10, 2009

This text editor is rock solid and fast. I have used it most days since November 1999 and every version is an improvement on the last. Search and replace (including with regular expressions) and search highlighting I cannot live without. no hex editor, but you can open binary files Opens huge files quickly. Never crashes. Macros are easy to record and modify. Plugins are useful. Fantastic unicode / text encoding support, so if you ever open files with Asian encoding, you can trust EmEditor to work properly. It can usually detect the correct encoding. When searching, EmEditor highlights evey instance (i.e. maybe Google copied this from them?). Also you can setup EmEditor to keep these highlighted for previous searches, which I find very handy when searching for multiple related searches and I want to see them in context with each other. (All Configurations, Display tab, increase Search Colors). EmEditor can use tabs or use individual windows. I use individual windows so it is just like Notepad. Unlike Notepad though, if I try to open the document again, it goes to the same window. Also unlike notepad, EmEditor has unlimited undo, which works every time. When searching, I can switch to a different document and press F3 to find the same thing, because F3 is global for EmEditor. Updated on Feb 19, 2009

Rated 50/50 by urlwolf at Feb 22, 2009

This is a small wonder. I'm switching from vim to this after > 10 years on vim; if that's not a compliment, I don't know what is. The search highlight feature is indispensable. Configuring custom highlighting for any programming language is easy. With the project plugin and autocomplete, it does almost as much as an IDE for 1/10th of the memory. And it's the (only) viable option to operate with large files.

Rated 30/50 by dhry at Apr 24, 2009

Pass. Like bigmama says, NotePad++ is way better and free. If you want an editor with the file explorer etc as well as a couple of other frills (in my opinion unnecessary but whatever), I'd also look at PSPad (www.pspad.com) - also free. It's inexcusable for someone to consider paying for a program like this, much less consider charging for one.

Rated 50/50 by User61 at Apr 24, 2009

roswell: Jarte is a word processor. Please do not confuse a word processor with a text editor.

Rated 50/50 by Hosam A. Mahmoud at Aug 13, 2009

I haven't yet seen any other editor that can open very large files as smoothly as EmEditor. It also runs well on Ubuntu Linux with WINE 1.1.26. There are no visible efforts being exerted to make it easier to use it with WINE on Linux.

Rated 50/50 by GerritWittesaele at Sep 5, 2009

Finally ! I finally found a text editor that is fast, polished, full of options, and has easy options to use regular expressions, script, batch processing with having to jump through all kind of buggy hoops (dada N++ !!!)

Rated 50/50 by HotBlack77 at Jul 1, 2010

Simply the best.

Rated 50/50 by zhouzh2 at Jul 6, 2010

The best editor on Windows.

Rated 50/50 by banderson166 at Jul 7, 2010

Handling really large files, progress bars show you how it's doing for loading & saving. You know exactly where you are at all times. I didn't want it as my default text editor, but it assumed I did. I needed a text editor to handle huge (>1Gb) xml files, and this fits the bill perfectly. An excellent tool for that kind of work.

Rated 50/50 by jurgfella at Nov 19, 2010

I've used Textpad, EditPad, UltraEdit, and Notepad++, and EmEditor has most balanced feature set. Macros are especially easy to write and use, and can be saved in VB script and java script. Program is very robust, never crashes. Wish I could turn off automatic presentation of CSV files in columns. Otherwise, nothing. Use this product to manipulate very large data files (50,000 lines or more) and it does that very well.

Rated 50/50 by guti at Jan 20, 2011

Not the most featured text editor, but the one that better handles big and huge files, being quite compact and fast. If you cannot spend money, AkelPad is a good compelling choice. If not, pay for it, and get the performance. PS: Really like its x64 build, specially mading it portable.

Rated 50/50 by PetePat at May 31, 2011

After years of searching i finally found THE notepad/text editor. Plethora of features to make it powerful text editor and great speed/stability to make it notepad replacement (maybe even the fastest text editor on the market). It has portable version. If you don't wanna spend money than try notepad++, akelpad or notepad2 but i think this one is well worth the money.

Rated 50/50 by FatBastard at Aug 11, 2011

A very impressive program. I love that it's available in a 64-bit version.