Text editors and regex

[steauengeglase]

Anyone know of a light-weight, text editor for windows that honestly, truly supports searching with regular expressions. Real regular expressions, not a pseudo variant that they came up with just for their text editor or VB's take on regular expressions? Also something other than Vi.

[Plagman]

SciTE (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html).

[Samji]

I think ConTEXT (http://www.context.cx) supports regular expression searching.

[steauengeglase]

Thanks, I completely forgot about SciTE and I'll give ConTEXT a try.

[Samji]

No problem. ;)

[Samji]

Crimson Editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com) does too.

[Bad Sector]

joe (http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/) supports regular expressions, although i never used them to comment on its "fullyness" :-). It's a nice little editor to write your code with though.

[Samji]

And of course there's Vim (http://www.vim.org) (I use this, on Linux though) and kitchen sink, Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/).

[Bludd]

Textpad does too, but it doesn't support reading unicode paths, if that is something you need. Also it is not free.

[boshem]

Open Watcom (http://www.openwatcom.org/) comes packaged with a version of vi for Windows which seems very decent and fairly friendly, while preserving most vi conventions AFAIK. It provides syntax highlighting and RE matching, though it may lack certain modern features (depending on expectations). Another benefit is source code availability.

[Phayzon]

Textpad does too, but it doesn't support reading unicode paths, if that is something you need. Also it is not free.

I personally like Textpad. I got a registered copy from school, but as far as I know using the evaluation copy doesnt restrict anything and doesnt expire either.