Alternatives to BBEdit for all platforms with any license

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
- Lightweight native editor with syntax coloring, brace matching, and multi-file sidebar. Most importantly, it's not a bloated JavaScript Electron mess. Guest • Feb 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Code formatting Portable Tabbed interface ... Support for Javascript Plugins Custom Language Definitions Customer support Debugger Macros Multiple languages Multiple Open Tabs Search and replace Text formatting Auto-saving Autocompletion Block edit Built-in editor Color coding Column edit mode Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Integrated Search Live Preview Native GUI Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

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Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Built-in Terminal Code completion ... Autocompletion Customizable GIT support Syntax Highlighting Code completion Multiple cursors Plugins C# Scripting C support Extensions Graphical interface Support for Javascript Lint support MarkDown support Multiple languages Night mode/Dark Theme Remote Debugging Ruby support Source code debugging Supports Python Theme Customization Support for Themes Code formatting Code navigation Color coding of code Electron based Embedded debugger Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Git integration Mercurial support Minimap PHP IDE Run Android Apps on Desktop Support for NodeJS Version and Source control Add a feature

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Sublime Text

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. ...
- I feel that Sublime Text is a superior product to Notepad++ as I have used both of that software extensively. This is only my personal opinion and you might find the opposite to be true for you. Guest • Jun 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Lightweight Package Control Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable ... Multiple cursors Syntax Highlighting Clean design Font Ligature Support High-dpi support Plugins Simple text editor Text editing Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Directory structure Fullscreen support Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Php Plugin API Portable Python Ruby Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Auto-Refresh Add a feature

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Eclipse

Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Python Java IDE Refactoring ... Autocompletion Collaborative Workspaces Debugger Java Php Rich Client Platform Ruby SCM Integration Support for Themes Add a feature

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gedit

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD ... GNOME OpenSolaris
Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion ... Spell checking Add a feature

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GNU nano

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku
Command line interface Terminal-based Automatic Indentation Search and replace Add a feature

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PhpStorm

Enjoy productive PHP and web development with PhpStorm. Take advantage of deep code understanding, top-notch coding assistance, and support for all major tools and...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Code completion Php PHP IDE Refactoring ... Debugger Live Preview Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Qt Creator

Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment which is part of the SDK for the Qt...

Commercial $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Autocompletion Build system Visual studio intergration Code formatting ... Debugger QT Based Refactoring Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Notepad

Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.
- Other than suuuper basic text editing, it has no real functionality. An alternative to BBEdit should have some level of programming/HTML editing support. (I'm not hating on Notepad, but it's like saying "Don't like Word? Try writing on pen and paper ;) ) Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Windows
Minimalistic Lightweight Simple text editor Support for Unicode ... Bundled with Windows Add a feature

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Bluefish Editor

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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
PHP IDE Support for SFTP Add a feature

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about BBEdit · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

BBEdit is insanely great. I have been using text editors for almost 25 years now, starting with C64, Atari ST, then MacOS, Windows and back to OS X. BBEdit is easily the most-customizable, reliable and feature-rich text editor I have worked with. I use it for HTML, CSS, e-mail and about everything else that doesn't require visual formatting. GREP, syntax coloring, project management ... There's a lot to discover. It's not cheap, but well worth the money if words (or code) are your daily business.

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about BBEdit · May 2020 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

The best text editor in the world. It's also free(-mium)!

The bad thing about BBEdit is it's only available for Mac.

Other good text editors that I have used are Sublime Text ($80, free-ish) and VSCode/Codium. They aren't even close to BBEdit.

I'm going to miss BBEdit when I no longer use Macintosh.

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