Syntax Highlighting makes your code look pretty, right? But is it just an aesthetic nicety, or does it have a more functional impact? And are there ways to improve it? Long ago, when I first learned ...

Line numbering and syntax highlighting are a few of the features that make this notepad replacement especially attractive to programmers. At first glance, Notepad2 doesn’t have much to distinguish ...

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Colorer is a syntax-highlighting and text-parsing library that supports a large number of programming languages. In addition to the Eclipse plug-in, the distribution provides syntax-highlighting tools ...

The iPad has no shortage of text apps for jotting down notes or working on documents, from Documents To Go, to Elements, to Simplenote. But a different kind of text editor, called Textastic, is aimed ...