HippoEDIT

HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use text editor for MS Windows

HippoEDIT  Review

HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use text editor for Microsoft Windows, primarily targeted at power users and developers. It has a modern and lightweight skinable user interface, multi-tab environment, seamless web and help browser, file and project explorer, external tools integration, and many more features. HippoEDIT is implemented with a great attention to usability guidelines, so it is equally suitable to both novice and experienced users. User interface is highly customizable and adoptable to current programming language. The editor comes with pre-defined syntax highlighting for C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Pascal HTML, XML, XSLT etc. Syntax definitions are inheritable (C->C++, C# or XML->HTML, XSLT) and embeddable (JavaScript, PHP and CSS in HTML). To facilitate the source code editing HippoEDIT provides more than 160 integrated commands with customizable keyboard shortcuts, code auto-completion using syntax dictionary and statistical information, real-time code hints with best guesses from editor and sophisticated code templates engine with big set of built-in tags. Source code outlining, current scope and change lines indication, mismatching brace highlighting, indent guides etc. greatly help in code analysis and navigation. Clipboard ring, full support of text and files drag & drop, transparent usage of different clipboard formats to paste syntax-highlighted code into other applications, or paste highlighted code as HTML back into editor smoothly integrates HippoEDIT in your work environment. Other features include powerful search and replace, support of different text encodings, WYSIWYG printing and previewing, syntax specific code formatting rules, and more.