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    August 13

    Script Editors

    I see a lot of people asking about script editors for vbScript and Powershell.

    If you want free then I would suggest the following:

     Notepad Plus is a good replacement for Notepad.

    http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

    Here are the features of Notepad++ :

    Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding

      Supported languages :
          C C++ Java C# XML HTML
          PHP CSS makefile ASCII art (.nfo) doxygen ini file
          batch file Javascript ASP VB/VBS SQL Objective-C
          RC resource file Pascal Perl Python Lua TeX
          TCL Assembler Ruby Lisp Scheme Properties
          Diff Smalltalk Postscript VHDL Ada Caml
          AutoIt KiXtart Matlab Verilog Haskell InnoSetup
          CMake YAML
      WYSIWYG 
      User Defined Syntax Highlighting 
      Auto-completion 
      Multi-Document 
      Multi-View 
      Regular Expression Search/Replace supported 
      Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported 
      Dynamic position of Views 
      File Status Auto-detection 
      Zoom in and zoom out 
      Multi-Language environment supported 
      Bookmark 
      Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting 
      Macro recording and playback 

    Or you could go with Sapiens PrimalPad:

     SAPIEN Technologies has released a new FREE (for personal use) portable editor called PrimalPad.
    With PrimalPad you can edit PowerShell, VBScript, JScript and HTML files.
    The editor also support multi-tabbed environment, line numbers and color coding.
    The editor is a single EXE file, no need to install anything, just double click it and start editing your scripts.
    PrimalPad is available as x32 and x64 versions and can be downloaded HERE (registration needed).
     

    If you are only working in Powershell then:

     the Power Gui from PowerGui.org is a good choice and it’s free:

    http://powergui.org/index.jspa

     For a few dollars more;

    Try EditPlus

    http://www.editplus.com/register.html

    I like it because it lets me work in columns and it will find and replace tabs and line feeds.
    It supports the basic scripting languages, but last I looked it did not directly support Powershell.
    1-user license:   US  $35
     

    One just for vbScript is vbsEdit;

     http://www.vbsedit.com/

    This does amazing things in vbScript, including showing you all the functions and methods
    available when you open up a com object. I really like this feature when I am scripting Excel.
    VbsEdit  Single-user license for $49.00

     

    Of course if you want the very best and are willing to pay for it then you must buy Primal Script.

    Price: $299.00
     
    I won’t go into details, but if scripting is you job, then this is the one for you.

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