Atom Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Atom for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Atom and loads of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Atom are Sublime Text, Vim, VSCodium and Kate.

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  1. Left icon
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    Left

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    Left is a distractionless writing tool with auto-complete, a synonyms dictionary, writing statistics, markup-based navigation and a speed-reader.

    19 Left alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Left Features

    1.  Electron based
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    Discontinued

    Last commit in February 2022

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  2. TEA icon
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    TEA

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    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

    64 TEA alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    TEA Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  C++
    3.  Tabbed interface
    4.  Built-in File Manager
    5.  Built-in Image converter
    6.  Built-in Image viewer
    7.  Built-in archiver
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  4. Lines code editor icon
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    Lines code editor

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    Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.

    180 Lines code editor alternatives
    Responsive preview, code outline, project explorer, tabs. (new version 5.2)

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Lines on Ubuntu
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    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Built-in Color Picker
    5.  Javascript scripting
    6.  External commands
    7.  Integrated Search
    8.  Integrated Web Browser
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    CodeLobster IDE is a free cross-platform IDE primarily intended for editing PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript files with special support Drupal, Joomla, JQuery, AngularJS, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Laravel, Magento, Symfony, Twig, Yii and...

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    Tilde

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    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

    122 Tilde alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Full-Text Search
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Terminal-based
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    Ecere SDK

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    A cross-platform Software Development Kit including a GUI toolkit, a 2D/3D graphics engine, a networking library, an audio output library, an IDE, a compiler for the eC programming language, and more.

    57 Ecere SDK alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Ecere SDK Features

    1.  Debugging
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    Scribes

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    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 factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

    The res.

    110 Scribes alternatives
    Scribes simple and sleek (startup)

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Scribes Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Gtk
    Scribes code completion
    Scribes code templates (snippets editor)
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2011.

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    Traditional Ex - Vi editor

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    The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...

    67 Traditional Ex - Vi editor alternatives
    Vi session editing, tildes signify lines not present in the file.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Discontinued

    The last update is from 2013.

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