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asm editors

What editors do you use to write your assembly code in? I'm creating a custom ide that will show reserved words in a different color and format each line as you type in the code (like Microsoft's IDE's). This is a little more work than I expected, so I'm looking in to existing ide's for assembly. Are there existing editor's that do this?

lsatenstein

My favourite editor (for all languages) is Multi-edit.
I use it for asm, cobol, sql, etc.

It comes pre-configured for almost every programming language under the sun.

Not too expensive, and it's Windows based.

tsmok

I think you can use Note pad also

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BeyondWu

>>Are there existing editor's that do this?
The most popular, as I know, is RadAsm, which can support MASM,TASM,FASM,NASM.
download it at:http://radasm.sonshinesoftware.com/

lsatenstein

Lets not have an editor war.

Just a few more things about Multiedit (www.multiedit.com)

It has unlimited open files (cut and paste or compare between), unlimited undo, colorizes, has templates, can do begin/end matching for almost any programming language, and it comes with a macro language that has to be compiled. My copy includes all the macro sources.
Finally, it integrates into most workbenches, and has interfaces to external source code maintenace utilities.

No more from me on this. Bye.

dimitry

I fully agree with lsatenstein and I am using MultiEdit too. But I don't think that it is free. At least I bought it.

jflemin

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Thanks all. I'm going to look at the editors. These are the editors that I have from your comments.

NotePad - This is what I currently use.

http://radasm.sonshinesoftware.com/ FREE?
http://www.multiedit.com $139
http://www.editplus.com $30

jflemin

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RadAsm didn't work correctly. I'm missing a dll.

MultiEdit is too expensive. I'm just a beginner, and I don't want to invest too much too soon.

EditPlus is a HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C/C++, Java, JavaScript and VBScript editor, but you can create a syntax file to custimize it.

jflemin

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Thanks everyone for your feedback. I choose EditPlus because of the price and ease of use. If I get more involved in Assembly, then I will look in to MultiEdit.

Thanks again for your suggestions!!!

jack_yangyue

Which kind of asm do you use now? I have a NASM syntax file for Editplus. If you use NASM, give me your mail and i will send it to you.