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Notepad++
Open Source by Don HO |
- Windows
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures ...

Category: Development Tags: portable From http://portableapps.com: multilingual, development, text-editor, programming, notepad, multi-language +2 more, code-editor, developer-tools

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Vim
Open Source by Bram Moolenaar |
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 efficiency. This makes vi ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, syntax-highlighting

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gedit
Open Source by The GNOME Project |
Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins. Currently it features: * Full support ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, gnome

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Notepad2
Open Source by Florian Balmer |
- Windows
Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch yo ...

Category: Development Tags: portable, text-editor, notepad, syntax-highlighting

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Coda
Commercial by Panic Inc. |
- Mac
Using a separate program to design your stylesheets? That’s crazy stuff! We’ve built a fully-featured CSS editor directly into Coda, giving you all the tools you need to create the world’s most beautiful layout. It’s lik ...

Category: Development Tags: design, ftp, html, css, collaborative, syntax, subetha-engine

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TextMate
Commercial by MacroMates |
- Mac
TextMate brings Apples approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice use ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, code-editor, syntax-highlight

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GNU Emacs
Open Source by The Free Software Foundation |
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 GNU Emacs i ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, html, code-editor, html-editor

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Notepad
Free by Microsoft |
- Windows
Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, notepad

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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 simple conf ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, design, ftp, html, css, syntax, coda

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UltraEdit
Commercial by IDM Computer Solutions |
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) on 32-bit W ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, programming, notepad, code-editor, hex-editor

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jEdit
Open Source |
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 ease of us ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, programming, java, notepad, code-editor

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GNU nano
Open Source |
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 toggles, internati ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, syntax-coloring

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Kod
Open Source |
- Mac
Kod is a programmers' editor for OS XSource available at http://github.com/rsms/kodGoals and featuresFully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiti ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, html-editor, css-editor

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MacVim
Open Source by Björn Winckler |
- Mac
MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z, ?V, ?A, ?G, etc.), ...

Tags: development, programming, source-code, vim

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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 eliminating fact ...

Categories: Development, Office & Productivity Tags: text-editor, python, word-processor, gnome, gtk, full-screen-text-editor

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Quanta Plus
Open Source by KDE Web Dev Team |
- Linux
Quanta Plus is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages. It is part of KDE, a Linux desktop environment, released in the Kdewe ...

Category: Development Tags: php, text-editor, web-development, wysiwyg

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NoteTab
Free with limited functionality by Fookes Software Ltd |
- Windows
NoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows. NoteTab is a winner in the PC-Magazine Shareware Awards, Peoples Choice Awards, and Shareware Industry Award ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, notepad, html-editor, tabs, search-and-replace, regexp

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Editra
Free for personal use |
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 of other us ...

Category: Development Tags: programming, html, ide, notepad, code-editor, texteditor, python-editor

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Aquamacs Emacs
Open Source by David Reitter |
- Mac
An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more... Based on GNU Emacs, Aquamacs integrates perfectly with OS X with many Mac-specific extensions to fit with the Mac user interface (you ca ...

Category: Development Tags: text-editor, programming, java, code-editor, latex, html-editor, php-editor +1 more, emacs

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MadEdit

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