ConTEXT Editor is a lightweight, free text editor for Microsoft Windows designed primarily as a secondary tool for software developers. It offers robust syntax highlighting for over 200 programming languages and supports unlimited open files and large editing sizes, making it suitable for code review, script maintenance, or general text editing. The editor includes project workspaces, customizable syntax highlighting, regular expression search/replace, bookmarks, macro recording, file comparison, and built-in file browsing
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ConTEXT Pricing:
Free, lightweight, and very fast on Windows.
Handles unlimited open files and very large file sizes.
Strong multi-language syntax highlighting + custom highlighters.
Useful dev features: regex search across files
Only available for Windows; no native macOS/Linux.
Outdated UI and ecosystem versus modern editors
No built‑in Git, debugger, LSP, AI, or collaboration features.
Pricing yet to be updated!
