Best text editor with custom syntax

editor syntax-highlighting customization
Aethex picture Aethex · May 1, 2009 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

What is the best text editor with the ability to create custom syntax? I used notepad++, but the custom syntax was a bit limited and the plugins (namely textFX) had a few bugs to satisfy me. I heard about Vim and Emacs (which one is better?), but I want a FAST editor with many features.

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Brian Rasmussen picture Brian Rasmussen · May 1, 2009

Vim and Emacs are fast and have lots of features, including syntax highlighting.

Personally I use Vim, but both of them are powerful editors. If you use Visual Studio the ViEmu plug-in is a very nice option as it allows almost complete Vim editing within Visual Studio.

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