Notepad++ the best lightweight CF editor
Posted on July 24, 2008
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Every developer needs a trusty text editor that does more than just Notepad - something that’s lightweight, loads fast, has good searching features and some syntax highlighting. Eclipse is indispensible, but there are plenty of times I just can’t be bothered firing it up - or if it’s open, the file I want to edit isn’t in an Eclipse project. Eclipse is “heavy” and resource hungry. Sometimes you need something just the opposite.
Enter Notepad++. It has been my tool of choice for a while now - it has excellent multi-file searching, loads in a flash and supports a boat load of languages with syntax highlighting (js, xml, css, asp etc). What I’ve always missed is syntax highlighting and dictionary support for CF.
Well I cracked today, did a bit of googling and found a solution! Howard @ DelayedInstantiation has put together language support for Notepad++ so big kudos to him for developing the plugin!
I installed it today and works like a charm - the little catch though (if using Vista) is to install the plugin in the %AppData%/Notepad++/ directory, not in the %ProgramFiles%/Notepad++/ directory.
So if you’re on the lookout for a quality, lightweight editor for CF, take a squiz at Notepad++. It seems to be regularly maintained (up to v5!), and now it has CF language support, it’s an indispensible tool in my armoury.
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Ah - great find. I’m usually in CFEclipse all day but I do use Notepad++ for the quick things.
In my previous life when I was a CF programmer - I used Notepad ++ almost exclusively for daily tasks. I would fire up CFEclipse for the serious work, but the easy things all were done in Notepad ++. For a simple fix, I could open up Notepad ++ - make the fix and save it before Eclipse finished loading.