Text Editors

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You can use any text editor for creating a source file for ConTeXt (in case of desperation, even notepad should do :). A lot of editors provide generic TeX syntax highlighting (not based on a word list). But some have a bit more support for ConTeXt:

Editor	features							Linux	Windows	MacOS X	Remarks
Emacs with AUCTeX			S		U		?	y	y	y	Extremely powerful & highly configurable text editor for CTRL- and ALT- key lovers. The official AUCTeX distribution beginning with 11.50 has ConTeXt support. Berend de Boers ConTeXt mode for Emacs has been merged with the former ConTeXt support in AUCTeX by Patrick Gundlach.
Vim			S	T	U	2	?	y	y	y	Extremely powerful & highly configurable text editor for those who prefer command-line to GUI. (Preliminary) context support may be downloaded from Vim 7 CVS Repository. Compiling can be done via a Makefile and the :make command (which you can map to e.g. the F9 key). latex-suite currently doesn't support ConTeXt :(
SciTE	C		S	T	U			y	y	y (X11)	ConTeXt support not before v1.6.x. ConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory context/data/context.properties. See also the manual mcite.pdf SciTE on MacOSX 10.3 is Adam's quick-and-dirty port of SciTE to Panther/X11.
TeXshop	?	P	S	T	?			n	n	y (native)	Simple Cocoa IDE
gedit			S		U	?		y	n	y (X11)	GNOME editor
klat			S	T	U	?		y	n	y (X11)	KDE editor, based on kate
iTeXMac	?	P	S	T	U		+	n	n	y (native)	More advanced Cocoa IDE (one of its modes doesn't like tabulated source)

features:

• C = TeX/ConTeXt command completion
• P = PDF preview
• S = TeX/ConTeXt syntax highlighting
• T = ConTeXt typesetting
• U = Unicode (UTF-8) handling
• 2 = bidirectional edit (right-to-left)
• + = more…
•  ? = previous feature probable but unsure