Text editor

[TJ]

Does anyone know of a decent free text editor that has line numbers? It has been a pain so far using one that doesn't have the line numbers. Especially in a 1000+ line script!!

[Black Bart]

Notepad+ keeps track of line numbers.  It's not perfect, but the price is right.  You can pick it up at http://www.mypeecee.org/rogsoft/.

[FieryDove]

If you have windows you have notepad. Click View-Status Bar to see the line/col numbers. A huge time saver!

Cheers,
FD

[TJ]

My notepad does not, but I am still back on Windows 98.

I will download that Notepad+. Thanks.

[Jebus]

I use TextPad for all of my school coding needs, and it has the ability to let you number the lines.  You can download it from www.download.com, just search for textpad.  It's free to evaluate, and $27 to buy, but there's no real restriction on how long you can evaluate it for.

[CafeDave]

I love my Coffeecup HTML editor!  It also edits text files with line numbers.  Not free though except for 30 days.  But if you do html at all, it's well worth the $49.

http://www.coffeecup.com/

[Copper Maniac]

emacs is free and runs on any win32 OS (95 or later)
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
But it does not start up instantaneously, so it isn't good for quick edits.

[DrZettl]

Editplus ( http://www.editplus.com ) is the best text editor in my opinion.

It's shareware, but you just get a nagscreen if you don't register (it's $10 if you do)

[Fred Bob]

If you have windows you have notepad. Click View-Status Bar to see the line/col numbers. A huge time saver!

On Fred Bob's XP machine, ye has tew turn off yer Word Wrap in order fer de Status Bar to be available fer selectin'!        Ne'er would o' known Notepad had this if'n FD hain't mentioned it!  

[pirate jenny]

I use TextPad for all of my school coding needs, and it has the ability to let you number the lines.  You can download it from www.download.com, just search for textpad.  It's free to evaluate, and $27 to buy, but there's no real restriction on how long you can evaluate it for.

I've been using the same program daily at work for over half a decade now.  If there's a better text editor out there, I haven't tried it.  Note, though, that line numbers oddly aren't displayed by default--turn them on under Preferences.

[Coconut Kid]

Hurray for
Fred Bob

If you have windows you have notepad. Click View - Status Bar to see the line/col numbers. ...

On Fred Bob's XP machine, ye has tew turn off yer Word Wrap in order fer de Status Bar to be available fer selectin'!   ...

On my version of Notepad, when you turn-off Word Wrap, the line\col numbers appear at the right side of the Info Bar across the bottom. I found no way to select any "Status Bar." Consider carefully the size of the window in which you run Notepad.

The "TextPad" home page is:
http://www.textpad.com/

Expect that the rest of the links given in other posts in this thread will likely take you to someplace very different from what you expect.