CREdit 1.013 - Free Download

Everybody has his favorite text editor. My preferred one happens to be the editor included in the MS Visual C++ IDE. But it has several drawbacks. It is a part of a huge programming environment which has to be loaded every time you want to use the editor. It is overloaded with many features I'm not using in my everyday work, and lacks others which I need. And it is payware.

So I've decided to write my own editor. It had to allow easy work with command-line tools (like compilers and linkers), to support syntax colorization for user-definable languages (like assemblers for proprietary ASICs), and to be easy to use (fully configurable and with scripting support). About that time I found on Internet the excellent Crystal Edit class (written by Andrei Stcherbatchenko), which I decided to use as base for my own editor.

That's how the CREdit editor was born. It is still a work in progress, with some features yet to be added, but it's nevertheless quite useful and fully functional in its current state.

Feel free to contact me with any comments, suggestions or bug reports. Your feedback will be most welcome.

Features
Multi-document (MDI) tabbed window interface.
Active scripting support.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Output Pane window displaying the captured results of tools execution.
Configurable editor options (tab size, cursor shape, backup file creating, visible right margin etc).
Configurable user tools with output capturing and error parsing.
Configurable syntax colorization for user-defined languages.
Configurable editing and printing fonts, colors etc.
Configurable file filters for the file open dialog.
Notification/reload of documents changed by external programs.
Several sets of bookmarks and brace matching.
Line numbers.
Column selections.
Windows tab bar and Windows manager.
Printing and print preview.
Online, context-sensitive help.
Drag-and-drop editing.
Regular expressions search and replace.