Text Editors

The most important tool is a good text editor with syntax highlighting.

Download the EDITOR SYNTAX BUNDLE from SF - Syntax Bundle July 30th, 2013

Some good choices out there that have been used by previous data monkeys:

• WINDOWS SYSTEM
  • Crimson Editor] (Freeware)
    • Crimson Editor Setup
  • CONText (Freeware)
    • CONText Setup
  • PSPad (Freeware)
    • PSPad Setup
  • Editplus (Shareware for 30 days I believe)
    • EditPlus Setup
  • Textpad (Shareware)
    • TextPad Setup
  • UltraEdit (Shareware)
    • UltraEdit Setup
  • Notepad++
    • NotePad++ Setup

• MAC SYSTEMS
  • BBEdit (Shareware)
    • BBEdit Setup
  • TextWrangler (Freeware)
    • TextWrangler Setup

• JAVA Supported Systems
  • jEDit
    • jEdit Setup

• Android
  • Jota (Freeware)
    • Jota Setup

• OTHER SYSTEMS
  • vim This is a VIM Clone Site; vim is distributed with Linux-based systems
    • vim Setup
  • Kate Linux KDE distributions
    • Kate Setup

Most of these have PCGen specific syntax highlight files (Links to them are on the setup page for each editor). There are other good text editors, but you would need to create your own syntax highlight file for them.