ConTEXT

ConTEXT

Initial release	April 20, 2001 (2001-04-20)
Stable release	0.98.6 (14 August 2009) [±]
Preview release	0.98.7 (30 January 2010) [±]
Written in	Delphi
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	English, German
Type	Text editor
License	New BSD License
Website	contexteditor.org

ConTEXT is a text editor for Microsoft Windows.

It has built-in syntax highlighters for C, C++, Pascal, Delphi, FORTRAN, 80x86 assembler, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Perl, CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, Tcl, Tk and its own syntax highlighter definition language. Other features are code templates and the ability to work with several document windows using the Multiple Document Interface. ConTEXT can integrate compilers to compile source code from within the editor, and run external tools to manipulate loaded files (e.g. Pretty Printer). The output of such external programs, e.g. error messages, can be captured for further use. Incremental search and basic regular expressions are supported for searching and replacing. ConTEXT is available in many languages.

On 7 September 2007 the creator of ConTEXT announced he wanted to sell the project including the full source, copyrights, website and domain. In December 2007 it was announced that the complete project was bought and ConTEXT Project was set up as a company.

In March 2009 the decision was made to make ConTEXT open source but as of March 2013 the editor cannot support UTF-8 and has no future and is no longer under development due to licensing issues with one of its components.

See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors

External links

• Freeware Text Editor
• ConTEXT Downloads