Highlight Editor's Review

Get a handle on your source code and see what's what with this handy Windows coding tool.

I've been in the software development biz for quite some time now, and the crafting of source code in many ways is just that – a craft or an art. Over the years, the best way I've learned to do that is to have a special app to help write and highlight certain syntax. This is probably the biggest reason why I'm interested in apps light Highlight. It’s a source code development app for Windows.

Highlight converts source code, like HTML, XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, TeX, SVG, BBCode and terminal escape sequences to code with colored syntax highlighting. Language definitions and color themes are customizable. The app was designed to offer a flexible but easy way to use syntax highlighting for several output formats. Instead of hardcoding syntax or coloring information, all relevant data is stored in configuration scripts. These scripts may be altered or enhanced with plug-ins.

App Pro’s: quickly imports and highlights appropriate syntax

App Con’s: Intended for programmers only,

Conclusion: Highlight is a decent code editor, offering a way to highlight code to make it easy for coders to identify specific blocks of code by functionality – or color – with just a quick glance. This is especially helpful if you have to look for different loops or segments of code within a specific file when debugging or modifying or enhancing existing code.

This is great for programmers and testers; but won't see much use outside of the development lifecycle type.