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What is the best free text editor if color helps?

I'm trying to find ways to practice creating my own code outside of SoloLearn and it's become painfully obvious that I have a lot of syntax errors without the coloring of components. Any ideas? Free is important....I work in education = no money 😂

31st Mar 2017, 1:24 AM
Jessica
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36 Answers
31st Mar 2017, 1:54 AM
Hatsy Rei
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Brackets is free and good... There is also Sublime Text which is my favourite but its not free but it doesn't have a evaluation period too
31st Mar 2017, 2:31 AM
Nikhil
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There are many text editors available like Notpad++, Atom, Sublime Text & much more. My favourite is Sublime Text as it is much powerful text editor as it has numerous customization options like choosing different themes & also has different plugins by which you can beautify your code. You should give it a try!
31st Mar 2017, 3:52 AM
Biraj Patel
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Try out brackets. It's free and I personally feel that it has much more color friendly themes and syntax highlighting. Download it from here: www.brackets.io
31st Mar 2017, 2:08 AM
Chirag Bhansali
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notepad ++, maybe.
31st Mar 2017, 1:27 AM
Agus Mei
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Atom is best
31st Mar 2017, 3:06 AM
Ekansh
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Blue j
31st Mar 2017, 3:22 AM
Saumya
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i agree with @Agus, notepad++ is the best 👌
31st Mar 2017, 1:40 AM
Patricio López
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I personally use VS Code or Emacs.
31st Mar 2017, 2:04 AM
Wen Qin
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I really like sublime, has the power and intelligence of brackets and the easiness of notepad++. But this is more like a personal choice, try a bunch of editors and see what fit you best. Good luck :)
31st Mar 2017, 2:44 AM
André Santos
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Notepad++ for me :D
31st Mar 2017, 4:20 AM
MrCoder
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 Atom Sublime text 3
31st Mar 2017, 6:57 AM
mahsa naser
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I like Sublime, but since I'm not going to pay its licence I opted for Atom. Specially for beginners the difference is not remarkable.
31st Mar 2017, 6:28 AM
seamiki
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Create it by yourself. It will be the really best one for you! https://code.sololearn.com/WhAk5YF0f5Av/?ref=app
31st Mar 2017, 10:26 AM
Emore Anzolin
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Geany! give a Geany a try! you'll love it.
31st Mar 2017, 2:15 AM
Brandon
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visual studio code
1st Apr 2017, 10:08 AM
Ashley Marques
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If you want a Feature Rich Text Editor then you could try: 1) Brackets 2) Atom If you love simplicity then you could try: 3) Sublime Text Its good for all programming languages as well... 4) Notepad ++ Protip: if you want to work with github for code collaboration then, Atom is best for you. Protip 2: IDEs are also great option. They include lots of great features that text editor don't have. Such as: Eclipse Netbeans Aptana Studio Geany Happy Coding...😊
21st Apr 2017, 2:29 PM
Sandip Bhambre (Sandy)
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anWriter Free is a great editor for messing around with concepts on your phone. use it a lot for trying new website design
31st Mar 2017, 3:32 AM
Cameron Wildey
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use brackets it is free and install emit plugin or notepad++ or atom
31st Mar 2017, 4:05 AM
محمد نور
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notepad ++ is in my eyes best choice when you use windows and later you can look for a free IDE
31st Mar 2017, 11:05 AM
Christian Bachmaier
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