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.

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

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

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Function Editor missing highlights and snippet/keyword General function-node	2	341	20 June 2022
Feature Request: Add prettify/beautify to function nodes Feature Requests	1	1423	23 September 2020
[Announce] node-red-contrib-ui-editor Share Your Nodes node-red-dashboard	14	979	31 May 2023
Function editor highlights text arbitrarily? General	43	663	28 March 2024
Syntax Highlighting gone General	6	554	8 December 2021

Function Editor missing highlights and snippet/keyword

General

function-node

2

341

20 June 2022

Feature Request: Add prettify/beautify to function nodes

Feature Requests

1

1423

23 September 2020

[Announce] node-red-contrib-ui-editor

Share Your Nodes

node-red-dashboard

14

979

31 May 2023

Function editor highlights text arbitrarily?

General

43

663

28 March 2024

Syntax Highlighting gone

General

6

554

8 December 2021

Help with documenting stuff I am learning - styles in word processor

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