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Matt, there's a variety of text editors that are suited for this job.

I personally use Notepad++ for my edits. I didn't think twice about it because I've been using it for years for programming.

For syntax highlighting, see the E+ Support Knowledge base. It is imperfect but handles about 85% of it correctly.

I also recommend the Notepad++ plugin "Compare" that highlight the differences between two files, it's really useful (though I use git for that now).

Note that on the E+ support knowledge base, there are also syntax highlighting scripts for Ultaedit and Textpad, but I can't say how they perform.

If your an avid Unix user and are familiar with Vim, there's a syntax highlighting script here.

Matt, there's a variety of text editors that are suited for this job.

I personally use Notepad++ for my edits. I didn't think twice about it because I've been using it for years for programming.

For syntax highlighting, see the E+ Support Knowledge base. It is imperfect but handles about 85% of it correctly.

I also recommend the Notepad++ plugin "Compare" that highlight the differences between two files, it's really useful (though I use git for that now).

Note that on the E+ support knowledge base, there are also syntax highlighting scripts for Ultaedit Ultraedit and Textpad, but I can't say how they perform.

If your an avid Unix user and are familiar with Vim, there's a syntax highlighting script here.

Matt, there's a variety of text editors that are suited for this job.

I personally use Notepad++ for my edits. I didn't think twice about it because I've been using it for years for programming.

For syntax highlighting, see the E+ Support Knowledge base. It is imperfect but handles about 85% of it correctly.

I also recommend the Notepad++ plugin "Compare" that highlight the differences between two files, it's really useful (though I use git for that now).

Note that on the E+ support knowledge base, there are also syntax highlighting scripts for Ultraedit and Textpad, but I can't say how they perform.

If your you're an avid Unix user and are familiar with Vim, there's a syntax highlighting script here.

Matt, there's Any text editor would do, but text editors have more or less functionality that can help.

There's a variety of text editors that are suited for this job.job: Notepad++, Sublime Text, UltraEdit, Vim, Emacs, Textpad...

I personally use Notepad++ for my edits. I didn't think twice about it because I've been using it for years for programming.

For syntax highlighting, see the E+ Support Knowledge base. It is imperfect but handles about 85% of it correctly.

I also recommend the Notepad++ plugin "Compare" that highlight the differences between two files, it's really useful (though I use git for that now).as well).

Note that on the E+ support knowledge base, there are also syntax highlighting scripts for Ultraedit and Textpad, but I can't say how they perform.

If you're an avid Unix user and are familiar with Vim, there's a syntax highlighting script here.