Looking for a free Windows GUI text editor that supports solid1 regular expressions for its Find/Replace features, for programmers to use.
Familiar with Vim, Ed, Emacs, etc. Not looking for a command-based editor. Will give chosen editor to team members already familiar with Regular Expressions, but don't want learning curve incurred to use the editor itself.
1: "solid" meaning: the newest syntax or features implemented.
EditPad Pro seems to have it all. Although commercial, you can try for free.
As a free alternative, I use ConTEXT from time to time when I'm on Windows. Although it does not support look-arounds, almost all other PCRE features are supported. It's a nice lightweight text editor with tons of syntax highlighters available.
Here's an answer in the negative (and only a year late):
There are certain editors which are very good in many respects, but that have very poor support for regular expressions: "SciTE", "Programmer's Notepad" a "Notepad++" (which are all free). These are all based on the "Scintilla" library, which has a regex engine that does not even support alternation.
Hence, if regexes are important to you, then you should probably avoid those.
Take a look at notepad++, which is free and supports all kinds of regexy goodness.
Get the PortableApps version and you can keep it on a keydrive all the time -- handy for a mobile dev platform.
