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Eclipse

Open Source by Eclipse Foundation, Inc. |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java...

Development php, programming, python, ide, java, perl
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Vim

Open Source by Bram Moolenaar |
Mac, Windows, Linux, Haiku

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. Vim offers several “modes” for editing with...

Development development, programming, text-editor
+3 more developer-tools, code-editor, syntax-highlighting
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Sublime Text

Commercial by Jon Skinner |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Sublime Text 2 is free, but Sublime Text 3...

Development portable, php, text-editor, javascript, html, python
+8 more css, automation, code-editor, html-editor, ruby, distraction-free, no-distraction, syntax-highlight
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Geany

Open Source by Enrico Tröger, Frank Lanitz, Nick Trelea... |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as...

Development php, text-editor, javascript, html, python, css, ide
+16 more java, sql, xml, ruby, latex, perl, c-plus-plus, xml-editor, pascal, abc, assembler, haskell, vala, ada, docbook, caml
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GNU Emacs

Open Source by The Free Software Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of...

Development text-editor, html, code-editor, html-editor
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Komodo Edit

Open Source by ActiveState |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it'll be worth your while. Windows,...

Development text-editor, code-editor, html-editor, macros
+4 more php-editor, python-editor, javascript-editor, perl-editor
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SciTE

Open Source by scintilla.org |
Windows, Linux

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with...

Development text-editor, design, html, ftp, css, syntax, coda
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Kate

Open Source by Christoph Cullmann |
Windows, Linux

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface. Kate is a multi document editor, based on a...

Development text-editor, programmers-editor, syntax-highlight
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UltraEdit

Commercial by IDM Computer Solutions |
Mac, Windows, Linux

UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard)...

Development programming, text-editor, notepad, code-editor
+1 more hex-editor
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Bluefish Editor

Open Source by Olivier Sessink, Daniel Leidert |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it...

Development programming, web-development, text-editor, ftp, sftp
+1 more programmers-editor
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GNU nano

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux, Haiku

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature...

Development text-editor, syntax-coloring
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jEdit

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and...

Development programming, text-editor, java, notepad, code-editor
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E - TextEditor

Commercial by E Text Editor |
Windows, Linux

E is a new text editor for Windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. It makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual...

Development text-editor, html, ftp, css, web-design, syntax
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Leafpad

Open Source |
Linux

Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Features: ...

Development text-editor, drag-and-drop, lightweight, gtk
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Android Studio

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Similar to Eclipse with the ADT Plugin, Android Studio provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging.

Development development, developer-tools, ide, development-tool
+2 more development-environment, andorid-develement
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medit

Open Source by Yevgen Muntyan |
Mac, Windows, Linux

medit is a programming and around-programming text editor. Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

Development programming, text-editor, notepad
+7 more syntax-highlighting, editing, editors, programmers-editor, texteditor, source-code-editor, code-editor
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Enki

Open Source by Andrei Kopats |
Linux

Enki is a text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as quickly as possible. Without mouse. ...

Development programming, text-editor, code-editor
+2 more syntax-highlighting, programmers-editor
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Scribes

Open Source |
Linux

A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power. Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by...

Development, Office & Productivity text-editor, python, word-processing, gnome, gtk
+1 more full-screen-text-editor
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ReText

Open Source by Mandriver |
Mac, Windows, Linux

ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown syntax. It is written in Python using Qt libraries, able to run on any platforms (Linux and BSD are officially supported).

Development text-editor, markdown
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Editra

Free* |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it supports syntax highlighting and variety...

Development programming, html, ide, notepad, code-editor
+2 more texteditor, python-editor