Crimson Editor – 3.45 beta

Cool, I was pleased to discover that Crimson Editor v3.45 beta has been released today. For those not aware, Crimson Editor is a freeware source-code/text editor for Windows.

It may not quite be at the level of (say) TextPad, but TextPad isn’t free either. While I don’t believe that shareware is immorral, I do consider free software to better imbody the hacker ethos. I regard Crimson Editor as the current champ of source-code/text editors for Windows. Some features:

  • Multi-level Undo/Redo
  • Change-detection. That is, if a file changes on disk “out from under the feet” of the editor, the editor prompts the user whether he/she would like to reload the file.
  • Syntax Highlighting: HTML, CSS, C/C++, JavaScript, and so many other languages (even Python and LaTeX).
  • Auto-indent
  • Matching-parens highlighting. This is extremely handy for multi-level if-statements, for instance.

As far as what’s new in the 3.45 beta, I found this list of features to be included in 3.45 Final on the messageboard, and presumably the items that are listed as “done” are included in the beta.

7 thoughts on “Crimson Editor – 3.45 beta

  1. no tabs, but multiple windows, etc. are included

    i’ve always been against tabs, multiple desktops, etc.

    i’d rather have multiple sessions of my editor loaded. :-)

  2. I live for tabs, no fun keeping 10 editors open at a time. That would be like running .NET instead and let that eat up all my resources ;)

    Like your blog although this entry is very old..
    Hanne

  3. When I mention that I like Crimson Editor someone always brings up either (g)Vim or Emacs. I’ve tried them both and really made an effort to like them, but to be honest i don’t.

    Long live “modern” editors (even though they often could use a couple of features from some of the veteran ones).

  4. I got sick of using notepad so I searched the web and found millions of free text editors and chose 8 which looked good and loaded them all onto my machine and have been using them on and off for a couple of weeks.

    Crimson won. I wish it had function collapsing – it might have but I haven’t found it yet.

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