Alternatives to BBEdit for Windows 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 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Custom Language Definitions Portable Tabbed interface ... Auto-saving Autocompletion Block edit Built-in editor Code formatting Color coding Column edit mode Configurable Customer support Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Integrated Search Support for Javascript Live Preview Macros Multiple languages Multiple Open Tabs Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison 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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Package Control Multiple cursors ... Customizable Syntax Highlighting Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Directory structure Fullscreen support Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Open Source apps Plugin API Plugins Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Simple text editor Syntax Highlighting Text editing 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 IDE Refactoring Autocompletion ... Collaborative Workspaces Java Java IDE Rich Client Platform 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 Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting 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 Automatic Indentation Search and replace Terminal-based 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
PHP IDE Code completion Refactoring IDE ... Live Preview Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

230 Like
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 Code formatting IDE QT Based ... Refactoring Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Notepad2

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...
- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Portable 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
Lightweight Minimalistic Simple text editor Support for Unicode ... Bundled with Windows Add a feature

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UltraEdit

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...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Column based text editing Hex Editor 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
Open source software PHP IDE Support for SFTP Add a feature

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PSPad

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...

Free Windows
Syntax Highlighting ASCII to Hex Edit files without creating a project Hex Editor ... Lightweight Portable Add a feature

197 Like
SciTE

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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
No features added Add a feature

137 Like
jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Java Add a feature

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Notepad3

Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most...

Free Open Source Windows
IDE Lightweight Portable Support for regular expressions ... Search and replace Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature

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