Sometimes people wonder if MasmBasic can be used from Notepad or \Masm32\qEditor.exe. The short answer is
yes, of course 
Here is a little snippet (attached as *.asc =
assembler
source
code and *.asm):

The same snippet as *.asm plain text in Notepad:

If you can convince Notepad to build this source with a batch file, no problem,
it will generate exactly the same executable as the RichMasm source. Note also that attachments here in this forum that contain only the *.asc source can be opened in Wordpad, and saved as *.asm from there.
However, you should consider using RichMasm. It looks a bit different than most other IDEs, but it has many unique features that you might miss elsewhere:
- it remembers the last 8 positions where you have been in your source code; no problem for the 30-lines snippet above, but if your source is 5,000 lines with 100 procs, you may appreciate that feature
- it has bookmarks: select a text, press Ctrl D, and from then on you can jump there clicking into the bookmark; again, no big deal for small files, but my sources have
lots of bookmarks
- the search list is incredibly useful; try searching \Masm32\MasmBasic\Res\
MbSnippets.asc, a small 1,500 lines source
- RichMasm's recent files list has 25 entries (I need them all)
- the menu offers a bunch of features that are relevant only for Assembly
- among many other goodies, the keyboard shortcuts: type
ism<space> to see
invoke SendMessage,
I use most often deb4<space>. The complete list of more than 100 shortcuts is in \Masm32\MasmBasic\Res\Keywords.ini
