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Notepad++ is an Open and free editor with multi-color syntax high-lighting supported for almost all programming languages.. C/C++, ADA, pearl, VB script, JAVA, shell , assembly, html .........etc.........
Notepad++ comes with powerful set of add-ons
The compare Plugin is really superb .. You can easily compare different version of the code you have side by side.
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Brace and intend guideline Highlighting on Notepad++
When the caret stay beside of one of those symbol { } [ ] ( ) , the symbol beside of caret and its symmetric opposite symbol will be highlighted, as well as the indent guideline (if any) in order to locate the block more easily.

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Can Record frequently used key stroke sequence and/or mouse click sequence as macros for easily repeating the operations

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For making work the auto-completion (type Ctrl-Space to trigger the auto complete list box),
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Supported formats:

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
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Compression ratio Comparison

FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 for Windows and Google Earth 3.0.0616 for Windows after full installation.

Archiver	Mozilla Firefox		Google Earth
	161 files 15,684,168 bytes		115 files 23,530,652 bytes
	Compressed size	Ratio	Compressed size	Ratio
7-Zip 4.23 (7z format)	4621135	100%	6109183	100%
WinRAR 3.50	5021556	109%	6824892	112%
CABARC 5.1	5131393	111%	7434325	122%
WinZip 10.0 beta (maximum-PPMd)	5277118	114%	8200708	134%
7-Zip 4.23 (zip format)	6222627	135%	8909446	146%
WinZip 10.0 beta (maximum-portable)	6448666	140%	9153898	150%