Notepad++ Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Autocompletion Block edit Code formatting ... Color coding Configurable Custom Language Definitions Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Portable Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Tabbed interface Add a feature 4133 Like 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 Disagree Agree
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. ... Freemium $ $ $ Mac OS X Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple cursors Package Control ... Customizable Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Optimized for fast boot Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Plugin API Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 1674 Like
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 OS X Windows Linux Autocompletion Java IDE Lossless quality Refactoring ... SCM Integration Add a feature 1014 Like
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 OS X Windows Linux BSD GNOME ... OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 621 Like
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 194 Like
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 OS X Windows Linux Code completion PHP IDE Refactoring Live Preview ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 210 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 OS X Windows Linux BSD Autocompletion Refactoring Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 64 Like
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... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 282 Like 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.
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 OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 145 Like
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 Lightweight Portable Add a feature 191 Like
Notepad Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows. Free Windows Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows Add a feature 152 Like 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 Disagree Agree
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 134 Like
AkelPad 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)... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Portable Add a feature 78 Like
Notepad2-mod A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Portable Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature 40 Like
jEdit jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 107 Like
