UltraEdit, Notepad++, PSPad, EditPlus, EditPad Pro, Crimson Editor, GridinSoft Notepad, HTML-Kit, I tortured them all with my binary and merciless 10 seconds review tool: the Tricky Code Snippet From Hell. So I loaded my gun and went for a little hunt, hoping to find the perfect text editor. I realized that, after all, I had been using the same text editor over the years simply because I had never looked if something better existed. One night, someone in #wordpress mentioned they were using PSPad.

For instance, UltraEdit gets it wrong if you use heredoc syntax (using something like <<< HERE and HERE as delimiters for a string) and can't parse and highlight properly your code. Then, recently, I got more and more annoyed by the weaknesses of the code highlighting feature.

I thought it had all the features I could expect from a text editor : tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for a number of languages, code block collapsing, regular expressions for searching and replacing, opening and closing brace matching, you name it. I have been using UltraEdit as my primary text editor over the last few years.

Pspad vs ultraedit vs notepad++