Text editor

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There are loads of simple text editing applications out there, but some are actually more useful than others.

• Notepad is very, very basic but it does come ready-installed with Windows OS.
• Notepad++ is an open source text editor with some very helpful tools and plugins for Source modding. It is free to download.
• ConTEXT
• AkelPad — Excellent replacement for Notepad, with plugins and C/C++/other languages code support (HighLight and Autocomplete plugins).
• Visual Studio Code — Simular to Notepad++, with a built-in marketplace to download plugins for both coding and the editor itself.

It's also worth mentioning that VTFEdit has text editing functionality for .vmt files.

Uses

Whatever your favourite text editor might be, you will want to use it to open a number of different Source file extensions:

• .txt (!)
• .qc
• .qci
• .vmt
• .cfg
• .res
• .fgd
• .manifest