Crimson Editor

Crimson Editor
DeveloperIngyu Kang
Stable release
3.72-r286m Edit this on Wikidata / 1 October 2011
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
TypeText editor
LicenseFreeware
Websitewww.crimsoneditor.com

Crimson Editor is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is typically used as a source code editor and HTML editor. The author was Ingyu Kang.

Features

Crimson Editor features Windows shell integration, tabbed document interface, syntax highlighting, multiple undo/redo, column mode editing, bracket matching, auto-indentation, spell checking, direct editing of text files in FTP and the integration with compilers. Unicode (although only for the characters within the default character set of Windows) and various newlines are supported. Crimson Editor also supports the use of macros. The built-in calculator can evaluate simple expressions. Basic mathematics functions, and date functions are also available. Column mode allows rectangular text interactions.

Reception

Crimson Editor has been well received.: 88  It has been highlighted that it has a good set of features, syntax-highlighting for many formats, and includes integrated FTP. However, there are some memory issues with several (full-project) files, and it sometimes crashes.

See also

References

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