Portable Free Apps : Use it And Enjoy it

Emacs is a powerful text editor, and Emacs is often called a “programmer’s editor”.

The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor, but this description tells beginners little about what Emacs is capable of.

If you are tired of Windows notepad, you can try Notepad2. Yes, Notepad2. Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system’s registry.

Vim is a powerful text editor. Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor,” and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It’s not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.