WinEdt 6

WinEdt™ is a powerful and versatile text editor for Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents...
WinEdt is used as a front-end for compilers and typesetting systems, such as TeX or HTML. WinEdt's highlighting schemes can be customized for different modes and its spell checking functionality supports multi-lingual setups, with dictionaries (word-lists) for many languages available for downloading from WinEdt's Community Site www.winedt.org. Contributions are welcome!

WinEdt 5 series has been around for over nine years and it is time to move on, do away with some legacy issues, and start the WinEdt 6 project. Before proceeding to install WinEdt 6, please read the following important information pertaining to upgrading:

WinEdt 6 is installed parallel to WinEdt 5 and you can continue to use WinEdt 5 and possibly uninstall WinEdt 6 if you prefer the old version. You should not attempt to install WinEdt 6 over the existing WinEdt 5.x on your system!

Major new features in WinEdt 6.0:

WinEdt's Interface (toolbar) has changed. A single button is now used to select and start the TeX Compiler of your choice. The drop-down menu allows you to choose from PDFLaTeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, TeX, AMSTeX, etc... Once you make your choice you can start the selected compiler by clicking on the button...

The new interface also features context-sensitive Compile and Preview buttons. Their meaning for TeX documents can be configured through the Execution Modes Interface...

Configuration Filters are used to make Menu Items and Toolbars visible or invisible depending on the configuration choice (MiKTeX, Tex Live, HTML, etc...)

Console Applications are by default executed in WinEdt's own Console Window. This can be customized in the Execution Modes interface.

Highlighting now allows specification of environment-sensitive background colors.

Support for compiling MetaPost documents and Documented LaTeX (DTX)...

And there is more... Click on the link What's New in WinEdt 6.0, below, for the complete list of all new features, bug fixes and changes!