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A Smart Code Editor for Windows

By Ken Cox

Primalscript 2.1 is a first-class code editor that has many elements of a developer's environment. The software is full of features you'll find useful when you need a tool that's more upscale than Notepad, but not as cumbersome or expensive as Microsoft Visual Studio or Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev. The designers have added many features that boost productivity without getting in your way. The editor supports more than 25 programming languages, ranging from ASP.net to REXX and XML.

Full Editing Control

Primalscript is a tool for those who write or tweak code by typing or pasting it in line-by-line. Unlike the fancy GUI environments where the software writes the code, with Primalscript you control of what goes into the script and how it looks. When you make a quick change to a batch file, you want an editor that doesn't try to reformat line breaks. Primalscript knows better than to mess with the code without permission.

That said, the product offers a lot of support for efficient coding. For example, as soon as you start typing a script, the syntax coloring feature distinguishes keywords, attributes, and values for a better view of the code.

Primalscript 2.2
Sapien Technologies


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