---
title: "A Solid Text Editor"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/6/a-solid-text-editor.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/6/a-solid-text-editor.html"
published: "2003-05-06T10:42:00"
updated: "2003-05-06T10:42:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "After playing with it myself a bit, this text editor seems to have everything I ever wanted in a text editor (And some stuff I didn't think I needed, but did!) including all the keyboard junkie options I dig. Everything…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# A Solid Text Editor

By Roy Osherove May 6, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 6, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

After playing with it myself a bit, [this text editor](http://www.emurasoft.com/emeditor3/index.htm) seems to have everything I ever wanted in a text editor (And some stuff I didn't think I needed, but did!) including all the keyboard junkie options I dig. **Everything** is customizable.  

The only thing I didnt see here (that exists in UltraEdit) is IntelliSense style listbox on CTRL+SPACE. But This one is much better then the compatition IMHO for its UI and its cool tray icon option.

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

- May 9, 2003

    ### [The (Almost) Official .Net Tools List Gets An Upgrade](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/the-almost-official-net-tools-list-gets-an-upgrade.html)

- May 8, 2003

    ### [A Better RegEdit](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/8/a-better-regedit.html)

- May 6, 2003

    ### [KlipFolio](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/6/klipfolio.html)

- Mar 31, 2003

    ### [Bloody cool: Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/31/bloody-cool-share-keyboardmouse-between-computers.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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