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I use SciTE (in fact SciTE4AutoHotkey), with little tweaks of my own (syntax colors, ...)

I used to use Notepad++, but now I use e-texteditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com) which brings Textmate bundles to Windows. The snippets and commands got me hooked, but all of the other power editing features in there are awesome.

Since a week or two weeks Ive changed my default editor from PSPad to Vi (as GVim) finally. Now I can edit files faster than before. I like it much, but sometimes I forget some commands.

Its fun to write scripts with Vim.

For writing AHK scripts I use Notepad and Emacs.

I could not mark both in the poll, so I abstained. Then I realized, I have XKeymacs installed, so I can use emacs commands in Notepad (not all commands of course, but the basic ones). Now Emacs should be my proper answer.

I'll go back and complete the poll now.

I use NoteTab found at www.notetab.com there is a free version and a pro version.
both have almost same features. and for 30$ its not too bad used to be 20$ last year, anyhow.

The only drawback I find is it does not support custom syntax highlighting (only does it for HTML)

is also a mutli tab interface.. the best feature I found for noteTab is that it has a built in scripting language that supports all kinds of things

RegEx find and replace
Run external
if
goto
labels
functions

Its not as fast as ahk but for text its great.

Thats my 2 cents

I use a professional editor for programmers: MultiEdit 2006. It is rock solid, has everything you can imagine: practically unlimited undo/redo, tabbed interface, linked or split windows, configurable syntax highlighting, templates, tags, language dependent constructs – matching pairs, html parser-highlighter, VCS support, integration with popular compilers, compiler error catching - find in text, macro recording and macro language, line filtering, sessions, column/stream/line blocks, regular expressions, markers, incremental search, global search, hex-mode, file compare, text formatting, auto text expansion, ruler, line numbers, sort, and many-many more.

It is lightning fast. Sometimes I edit GB files without problems. In hex mode any binary file can be processed. I have defined several sessions, so it is easy to see all of my AHK projects or my C projects, etc.

It costs $79. It is worth every penny of it.

Notepad++

and as long as were talking about editors, is there any way to change the editor in AHK, when you right click the icon in tray, to bring up the file in notepad++ instead of notepad?

Open up any folder. Goto the tools menu, and click at the very bottom "Folder Options" then, when that opens goto the file types tab. Then wait for it to fill with files and search for AHK (their in abc order). Click on it, and hit the "Advanced button located in the lower right hand corner of the window. Then click in the list view control on "Edit" and click the edit button. Then where it says "Application used to perform action" replace the text in the edit control just below that with this:

Wow, I am surprised no one has mentioned jEdit yet. I love this thing.

It does context highlighting (.ahk provided with autohotkey). There are a slew of plug-ins written for it. It is highly configurable. Runs in Java which means I have the same interface on both my Linux as well as my Windows desktop.

One of favorite plug-ins is the FTP plug-in which allows me to edit files on remote ftp enabled systems as if they were on my local PC. Just hit save and it takes care of the login and put/get all under the covers.

there is a jedit option in the poll

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thanks ~dieom
but...
strangely (i'm using xp home) in the file types autohotkey's ahk extension isnt listed, and yet all ahk extensions have the correct icon and open correctly.
and yes i do mean its strange that my laptop has xp home. it has many unexplainable quirks, like this that cause problems. I'm assuming its a registry problem.

Oh crap! You are right. I totally missed that. Doh!

I made a modification of Notepad2 that includes the AHK SciLexer (thanks to PhiLho for that) found here http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37652

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Seems like PSPad is the current "leader"... I decided it to give it a try, and within 3 seconds it seriously gave me suicidal thoughts because YOU CAN'T F***ING MOVE THE CURSOR WITH THE ARROWS! Why the hell isn't this a default f***ing feature!? neither is CTRL+Left/right to jump words, or Home/End, for start/end of line, or anything of those "windows default editor controls"... Epicly retarded. But I'd really like to use PSPad, anyone who has any solution to this? (or is this the cause of the PSPad AHK installer torlaf made?)

I can't see how a d*ckhead could seriously make a windows IDE without the arrows to control the cursor... I never used the mouse in my text editors, how the hell do you scroll to different parts... I don't want to hold down Alt+Left or w/e, i just want to push left...

(Sorry mods, I tried to keep it "clean", I censored myself A LOT!)

Oh, btw, I use SCiTE atm, perfect for AHK imo.

I do remember I came accross this bug once.

I am just just trying to recall how I fixed it. I think I upgraded but here is a fix.

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