EDIT / UPDATE I have found this program: Bluefish editor. It seems to do what I want. (Post left in case anyone else ever has this question) When I am writing code here, it is automagically formatted and key words are one colour, and all that fancy stuff happens. Copying it to some external edit…

Your other one is Notepad++ for code formatting etc - it has many addons etc that offer support for additional formatting and markup languages Craig

I'm sure you'll get lots of suggestions, including VS Code and Atom. I can't give you pros and cons, since I don't do Windows, but I have always found it helpful to use a code editor for most of my note taking and text editing. (BBEdit on macOS for almost 20 years.)

Thanks both for the replies. I'm using Ubuntu...... This bluefisheditor seems to be doing what I need.

If it works for you - great. Personally, I use VSCode for programming and as such it has syntax highlighting etc for writing documentation. But, you can also do the following... Write code & auto format it into beautiful layout Get code completion on CSS and JS (i.e. can help you with spelling o…

Thanks. I'll look at it if it is for Ubuntu.

Ah! I have it installed. Need to look at it.

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Yeah. Its cross platform (so if you move to windows or Mac, you're still able to use it)

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