When it comes to text editing, Textpad is popular application, but it is not free. Medit for Windows is a freeware application which can be used as a text editor. It has some good features which makes it easy to write code with the syntax highlighter. It was started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.
Features;
- Configurable syntax highlighting.
- Configurable keyboard accelerators.
- Multiplatform – works both on unix and windows.
- Plugins: can be written in C or Python.
- Configurable tools available from the main and context menus. They can be written in Python or Lua, or it can be a shell script.
- Regular expression search/replace, grep and find frontends, built in file selector, etc.
The interface is pretty neat with tabs and also sidebar for accessing files quickly. It also shows the open files in the right sidebar. Medit is a simple and effective text editor for Windows.
