Lite Edit

Lite Edit is a tiny and portable software application that provides you with a user-friendly text editor for programming code. It offers support for Assembly ASM, BAT, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, Python, Ruby, XML and text, among other file types.

Since there is no installation involved, you can drop the program files in any part of the disk and just click the executable to launch Lite Edit. Another possibility is to save it to a USB flash drive to be able to directly run it on any computer with minimum effort. Plus, it doesn't modify Windows registry settings, unlike most installers.

Made from a normal window with a clean and intuitive structure, the interface is user-friendly. After opening a file, you can start making text modifications, select the encoding type (ASCII, Unicode UTF-8 or UTF-16), insert the current time and date and customize the format, as well as convert selected text to uppercase, lowercase, title case or toggle case.

Syntax highlighting is supported, so you can seamlessly spot blocks of code and comments. A search-and-replace function is put at your disposal and you can configure parameters, such as matching whole words only, searching the selection only instead of the entire document, or allowing new line, tab and black slash characters.

Lite Edit also lets you jump to a specific line of text, set bookmarks, launch a Command Prompt dialog in the current file's location, open Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer, execute the current file, as well as browse the character map and insert symbols.

It's possible to change the font settings and default file extension for saving, show line numbers and whitespace, set the tab width, remap keyboard shortcuts for all commands, and personalize syntax highlight colors for each programming or scripting language. Moreover, you can enable word wrapping mode and save all modifications to file.

The software application worked smoothly in our tests, without triggering the operating system to hang, crash or prompt error messages. It left a small footprint on the computer's performance, since it needed low CPU and RAM to work properly.

To wrap it up, Lite Edit supplies users of any level of experience with an intuitive environment for viewing and editing programming code, backed by many useful options. It's free.