Bend

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 Open source Windows text editor inspired by Zune client

 Author:   sushanth_r 
 Homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20100730205110/http://bend.codeplex.com/
 Family:   MicrosoftWindowsEditors
 Platform: DotNETEditorFamily
 License:  Open Source

Bend is a modern text editor. Bend takes off after the Zune client, but doesn't constrain itself to it. This text editor aims to be elegant, clean and a pleasure to work in. It exploits XAML / WPF to render beautiful hardware accelerated text, each feature is carefully selected to balance performance and style.

The prerequisites for using Bend are to have: .NET Framework 4.0, Windows Installer 3.1 and Windows 7. It claims it will work on Vista and XP SP3 as well.

Features include:

- Tabs - Find on page - Zoom Ctrl+Mouse wheel - Syntax highlighting (Extensible and supports .asp/.boo/.bat/.coco/.cpp/.cs/.html/.java/.js/.php/.vb/.xml)

Source for this info: http://www.windows7news.com/2010/08/06/microsoft-bend-typical-text-editor/