Extreme Editor

Extreme Editor is a word processor that includes tools for creating and editing programming code. It does not require installation and can be figured out pretty fast.

You can save the program files to any part of the disk and simply click the executable to launch Extreme Editor, as well as copy it to a USB flash drive or other removable storage unit to run it on any PC with minimum effort and no previous installers. What's more, it does not create new entries in the Windows registry or Start menu.

The interface consists of a classical window with a simple structure, where you can open files of any type to examine their code. Multiple tabs are supported, which means that you can juggle multiple files at the same time.

It is possible to customize font settings, enable word wrapping mode and count words, use a search function when dealing with large amounts of data (forward or backward), find matching brackets, switch to hex viewing mode to copy values and study offsets, show line numbers, enter full screen mode, as well as enable syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal, Java, JavaScript and other formats.

Extreme Editor also lets you convert between binary, decimal and hexadecimal, examine the ASCII table, convert text to lowercase or uppercase, capitalize words, insert the current date and time, execute command lines, sort text, as well as monitor a file.

We have not experienced any stability issues in our tests, since Extreme Editor did not hang, crash or pop up error messages. It uses low CPU and RAM, so it does not affect the PC's overall performance. This app comes packed with some really useful programming tools but it does not implement rich features.