Computers come pre-installed with a program that can open and edit text files. It’s called TextEdit on Macs and Notepad on Windows, but neither is as advanced as some of the third-party applications available today.
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Below is a list of the best free text editors. I have used these programs to edit everything from TXT files to HTML, CSS, JAVA, VBS, PHP, BAT files and more. They can also be used to convert between these formats.
Notepad++ is a great alternative to a notepad application for Windows computers. It is very easy to use for beginners who only need a text file opener or editor, but it also has some really advanced features.
This program uses tabs, which means that multiple documents remain open at once and are displayed as tabs at the top. Although each tab represents its own file, the program can communicate with all of the tabs at once to do things like compare files for differences and find or replace text.
