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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 |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

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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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  gedit

  Open Source by The GNOME Project |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

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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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  Geany

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

  Mac, Windows, Linux

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  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, ide, python, java

  +16 more css, sql, xml, ruby, latex, perl, c++, xml-editor, pascal, abc, haskell, assembler, vala, ada, docbook, caml

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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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  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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  Notepad

  Free by Microsoft |

  Windows

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  Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.

    Development   text-editor, notepad, windows-bundled, bundled

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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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  UltraEdit

  Commercial by IDM Computer Solutions |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

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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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  Bluefish Editor

  Open Source by Olivier Sessink, Daniel Leidert |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

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  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, text-editor, web-development, ftp, sftp

  +1 more programmers-editor

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  GNU nano

  Open Source |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

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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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  jEdit

  Open Source |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

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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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  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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  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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  E - TextEditor

  Commercial by E Text Editor |

  Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  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, webdesign, syntax

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  EmEditor

  Commercial by Emurasoft, Inc. |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  EmEditor is a fast Unicode text editor for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting large files, scriptable macros, CSV files, keyword highlighting and more.

    Development   text-editor, unicode-support, macros

  +2 more explorer-integration, large-file-editor

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  metapad

  Open Source by Alexander Davidson |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely...

    Development   text-editor, notepad

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  Programmer's Notepad

  Open Source by Simon Steele |

  Windows

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  Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad. * Syntax...

    Development   portable A portable edition is available., programming, text-editor, multi-language

  +7 more code-editor, syntax-highlighting, tabbed-interface, regular-expression, search-and-replace, programmers-editor, code-folding

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  TextEdit

  Free by Apple |

  Mac

  Not an alternative?

  When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import...

    Development   text-editor, notepad

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  EditPad Lite

  Free* by Jan Goyvaerts |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small & compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. It is a step up from Notepad, offering cleaner handling of large files, support for...

    Development   portable Installer includes a portable option., multi-language, text-editor, notepad

  +2 more lightweight, text-replace

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