I'm looking for a new text editor and am struggling to find one that has all my needs.
What I need it:
- Syntax highlighting (html/xhtml).
- The ability to S&R more than one line at a time (I'm refering to entering 2 or more lines of text into the search field and being able to replace all instances of those multible lines).
- Macro recording.
- Macro editing.
- An option to view the html/xhtml file either within the editor or to automatically load a browser to display it.
- Unicode support.
- Preferably for Windows but can also do Linux.
- Preferably free but will buy one if the program has all the functionality I need.
- Reg-ex capability (I don't know how to use reg-ex yet but am going to learn how).
- Tabbed editor.
This isn't a big list but I can't seem to find a single editor that supports all of these.
I currently use Editplus as it's the only editor that I seem to be able to get multiple-line S&R to work in, unfortunatly the macro recording is not that straight-forward (called Keystroke Recorder) as it only appears to record some keystrokes and I can't seem to edit the recorded keystrokes. If I could write the macro to be able to be able to call up a function and then perform a task and then be able to repeat this multiple times, I wouldn't need to copy-and-paste repeatedly from a text file.
Editplus deals with all of the above but I just can't get the macros sorted. So if someone could advised on a replacement that does all of the above, or if they know how get macro functions working on it (or using some kind of user-file or plug-in for this) I would be most greatful.