I’m going old school a little bit for this pick. It’s a good old fashioned text editor. Notepad++ is an excellent editor, and the latest version added a hex editor. Quite frankly, that’s what put it on my FLOSS list. I can use one app for hex and text editing. I use it for writing quick and dirty scripts, batch files, and as my default viewer when I “View Source” from a browser window. It’s got syntax highlighting, tabs, and loads of other features. It loads very fast and does what I want. My only wish is for a diff tool.
Here’s a couple screen shots:
You still aren’t using notepad are you?
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