Overview

The Zeus Lite programmer's editor is designed for developers working on the Windows platform, so if you're looking for a powerful programmer's editor then Zeus Lite might be for you.

Zeus Lite is also completely free of charge, with no of nag screens or any other limitations.

Lua and Python Tutorials

Zeus Lite comes with out of the box support for the Lua and Python programming languages, making it easy to start learning either of these languages:

Zeus Lite Review

To get a better idea of what Zeus Lite has to offer here is a review of an earlier version of the editor describing some of it's programming features.

Every feature described in that review will be found in current version of Zeus Lite and better still, as the current version is much newer, there will be plenty of new features found in the current version not found in that earlier review version.

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Features

Below are some of the features found in the Zeus Lite editor:

  • Being a native executable means a fast and response editing environment
  • Seamless FTP file editing
  • Syntax highlighting for C\C++, Clipper, Cobol, Fortran, Java, Pascal, Perl, Python, PHP, SQL etc
  • Compilers and builders run as background tasks allowing you to keep typing
  • Perfect development environment for CS50, EDX and MOOC training courses
  • Fully Scriptable using the Lua, Python, SmallC, VB Script, Java Script languages
  • Column, block and stream marking modes using both keyboard or mouse
  • Search and replace, including support for regular expressions
  • Brief, WordStar, Epsilon and Emacs keyboard maps provided
  • Keyboard mappings are fully configurable
  • Syntax highlighting is based on file extension and is fully configurable
  • Code templates
  • Keyboard macros recording, saving and playback
  • Support for third party tools
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • In-editor, in-line error location and correction
  • Quick Help searches any number of help files for a specific keyword
  • Standard status bar, tool bar, tab bar and navigation bar features
  • Fast load time and small disk space requirements
  • File Manager associations and drag and drop
  • Supports both MS-DOS and UNIX file formats
  • Supports for UNC and long file names
  • MS-DOS OEM text translation is also supported
  • Built in spell checker
  • Split window allows you to create two views of the same document
  • Line number and bookmarks navigation
  • Perfect Notepad replacement

Latest Version: Zeus Lite
Released: 2nd July 2025
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