Notepad Alternatives and Similar Software

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Notepad++
Open Source by Don HO |
- Windows
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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...

Development portable From http://portableapps.com: multilingual, development, programming, text-editor +5 more, multi-language, developer-tools, notepad, code-editor, tabbed-interface
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Vim
Open Source by Bram Moolenaar |
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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 |
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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 may be downloaded and...

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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gedit
Open Source by The GNOME Project |
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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: ...

Development text-editor, gnome
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Aptana Studio
Open Source by Aptana |
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Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes...

Development, Office & Productivity collaboration, php, web-development, css, ftp-support +1 more, application-builder
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Notepad2
Open Source by Florian Balmer |
- Windows
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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...

Development portable, text-editor, notepad, syntax-highlighting
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TextMate
Commercial by MacroMates |
- Mac
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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...

Development text-editor, code-editor, plugins, extendable, bundle +2 more, syntax-highlight, plugins-management
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PSPad
Free by Jan Fiala |
- Windows
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PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML,...

Development portable, text-editor, html, ftp, css, project-manager +2 more, webdesign, syntax
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GNU Emacs
Open Source by The Free Software Foundation |
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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 |
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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, php-editor +4 more, macros, python-editor, javascript-editor, perl-editor
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SciTE
Open Source by scintilla.org |
- Windows
- Linux
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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
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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, syntax-highlight, programmers-editor
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UltraEdit
Commercial by IDM Computer Solutions |
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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 text-editor, programming, notepad, code-editor +1 more, hex-editor
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GNU nano
Open Source |
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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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Smultron
Commercial by Peter Borg |
- Mac
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Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole...

Development text-editor, html, css, html-editor, htm
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jEdit
Open Source |
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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 text-editor, programming, java, notepad, code-editor
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WriteMonkey
Free by Iztok Stržinar |
- Windows
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WriteMonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. WriteMonkey is light, fast, and perfectly handy for...

Development, Office & Productivity text-editor, notepad, word-processor +3 more, distraction-free, no-distraction, distraction-free-writing
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AkelPad
Open Source |
- Windows
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A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages. Features * Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window...

Development portable Liberkey integrated, text-editor, notepad, languages-min-20 +1 more, liberkey
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TextPad
Commercial by Helios Software Solutions |
- Windows
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TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and...

Development text-editor, programming, ide, notepad, code-editor +2 more, macros, spell-checker
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Intype
Commercial by Intype Team |
- Windows
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FREE DURING BETA! Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native...

Development text-editor, programming, notepad, code-editor

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