Best Editor for config.cpp files

[Peacepunk]

Hi Community

I'm back to OFP after a while - and a complete lost of about 2GB of hard OFP Editing work due to HDD crash.

I used to edit config files with a Windows software (I mean, something that is included originally with Windows) that would give you color-coded reading/editing of cpp files, provided you assigned this soft to be the default tool for CPP stuff. For some reason, I found that quite useful. And I forgot the name of this piece of software.

Unfortunately, tools such as Chofpse or COC BinEditor doesn't feature that. I was Win 98/Me at the time, now XP.

Anyone to recommand this kind of Programming-Oriented Editor ? Is it still available under XP ?

Cheers.

[Gnat]

You probably mean Chris's (great) OFP Editor.

http://www.chenderman.com/CHOFPSE.htm

Its what I use

[Peacepunk]

Well, yes & no:

Unfortunately, tools such as Chofpse or COC BinEditor doesn't feature that.

Chofpse (especially the older one) is one of the greatest tool available to the OFP Editing Community. But, while Scripts features color-coded reading, it is not the case for .cpp files, so Chofpse is not the answer to my question.

The viewer/editor I am looking for must have something to do with "hardcore" programming, C+ like.

Thanks.

Peacepunk

[h-]

There's a tool called TextPad which does some colorization on .cpp files (among others)..

[Jahve]

I would suggest "notepad2" it shows you if you havent closed values with " ", aswell as the fact it can help you find missing { or };'s

[Peacepunk]

Thanks guys - I'll give 'em a try.

Anyone with knowledge of Linux, I'm looking for something Kate or Kwrite -like.

Peacepunk

[Mr.Peanut]

Try SCiTE, one the best generic source editors around.

[SniperAndy]

Notepad ++ rules imho.
With a little editing you can even replace your default win editor with this.

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

I use this for Webdesign, VBS, and all sorts of other editing.

[h-]

Well, I myself use Visual Studio, just because .cpp/.hpp/etc. files are opened in it by default and haven't been arsed to change that