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It can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, but it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers. Syntax highlighting for many popular programming languages (e.g. C++, Java) and markup languages (e.g. HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, JavaScriptJavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language commonly used in websites. It was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape Communications under the name Mocha and then LiveScript but then renamed to "JavaScript" and given a syntax closer to th, VBScriptVBScript (short form of Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition is a subset of Visual Basic used in Active Server Pages and in Windows Scripting Host as a general-purpose scripting language. VBScript is often used as a replacement for DOS batch files.). It can also be extended to support other languages via custom syntax files.
Seamless Web browserA web browser is a software package that enables a user to display and interact with documents hosted by web servers. Popular browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. A browser is the most commonly used kind of user agent. The lar for previewing HTML pages and FTP commands for uploading local files to FTP serversThe term FTP server can mean one of two things: # a computer responsible for serving any kind of files, via the FTP protocol to ftp clients which can also web browsers; # a software program that implements the FTP protocol and is working as a daemon servi are just two of the features that make it useful. Other features include an HTML toolbar, configurable user tools, line numbers, rulers, URL highlighting, auto-completion, cliptext, column selection, powerful search and replace using regexA regular expression (abbreviated as regexp regex or by some regxp is a string that describes a whole set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. These expressions are used by many text editors and utilities (especially in the Unix operating system, multiple undo/redo, a spell checkerIn computing terms, a spell checker is a software program designed to verify the spelling of words in a file, helping a user ensure his/her spelling is correct. A spell checker may be implemented as a standalone application capable of operating on an arbi for American or British English, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
On a feature-by-feature basis, it is on par with the commercial Visual SlickEdit .