Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. It can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, It has several features which make it a good replacement for NotePad.
– Edit multiple documents
– Syntax highlighting
– Multi-level undo / redo
– Project management to manage group of related files
– Directory tree view window
– Find & Replace
– Column mode editing
– Natural word wrapping
– Spell checker
– User tools and macros
– Edit remote files directly using built-in FTP client
– Print & Print preview
It offers Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX and can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.
Beside the above features, it also has some other useful features,
– support Unicode & UTF-8 encoding
– drag & drop text editing,
– multi-byte support with integrated IME (for eastern languages),
– auto indent, wheel mouse support, copy & paste, line numbers
– configurable line spacing, option to save files in Unix format,
This freeware can be found in
This editor seems quite good. WOrth to try