For use under Windows take a lok at http://www.ultraedit.com/. It is fast and supports syntax coloring for VFP 6.

>I'm looking for recommendations on a good text editor. Does anyone here have positive (or negative) experience with third-party products? I understand that, now that VFP has IntelliSense (though I can't afford to upgrade yet), there's not much incentive to code VFP outside of VFP. But leaving that aside for now ...
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>There aren't really any *requirements* other than that it write plain text. However, here are some of the factors I'm interested in:
>a) Speed -- how long does it take to start up? to open a file?
>b) Support for VFP language constructs (or configurable)
>c) Syntax coloring for VFP (or configurable)
>d) Programmability
>e) Cross-platform availability
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>I'm sure there are many important factors I've omitted, so if your favorite tool has something you like, let me know about that too. Thanks!
>zahid