Buffer Text Editor AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Code Editors
The best Code Editor alternative to Buffer Text Editor is Sublime Text. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Vim or gedit. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Buffer Text Editor and many of them are Code Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Code Editor alternatives to Buffer Text Editor are GNU nano, TextMate, CudaText and CodeEdit.
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- Free • Open Source
- 194 Sublime Text alternatives
Powerful editor blending code, markup, and prose editing with enhanced features like multi-tab selection, side-by-side definition viewing, and multiple selection tools for swift code navigation.
Top Sublime Text Features
- Lightweight
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Customizable
- Package Control
- Syntax Highlighting
- IDE
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Support for MarkDown
- Distraction-free
- Works Offline
- Git Support
Sublime Text VS Buffer Text Editor
Is Sublime Text a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 207 Vim alternatives
Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Snapcraft
Top Vim Features
- Lightweight
- Keyboard focused
- Customizable
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Syntax Highlighting
- Hackable
- Command line interface
- Works Offline
- Support for MarkDown
- No registration required
- Portable
- Batch Editing
Vim VS Buffer Text Editor
Is Vim a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 183 gedit alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- GNOME
- OpenSolaris
- Flathub
gedit Features
- Lightweight
- Syntax Highlighting
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Customizable
- Autocompletion
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Spell Checking
- Privacy focused
- Support for Unicode
gedit VS Buffer Text Editor
Is gedit a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 141 GNU nano alternatives
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 toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
GNU nano Features
- Command line interface
- Terminal-based
- Search and Replace
- Lightweight
- Automatic Indentation
GNU nano VS Buffer Text Editor
Is GNU nano a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 159 TextMate alternatives
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
Top TextMate Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for Themes
- Syntax Highlighting
- Support for MarkDown
- Lightweight
- Search and Replace
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- Code Formatting
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Automatic Indentation
DiscontinuedLast commit and version is from 2021
TextMate VS Buffer Text Editor
Is TextMate a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 190 CudaText alternatives
CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
Top CudaText Features
- Lightweight
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Native application
- Customizable
- Minimap
- Command palette
- Autocompletion
- Syntax Highlighting
- Support for Themes
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Portable
CudaText VS Buffer Text Editor
Is CudaText a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 18 CodeEdit alternatives
CodeEdit is a code editor built by the community, for the community, written entirely and unapologetically for macOS. Features include syntax highlighting, code completion, project find and replace, snippets, terminal, task running, debugging, git integration, code review...
CodeEdit Features
- Syntax Highlighting
- Live Preview
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Snippets
- Debugging
- Collaborative Code Editor
- Git integration
- Code Completion
- Swift
CodeEdit VS Buffer Text Editor
Is CodeEdit a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 211 UltraEdit alternatives
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) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
UltraEdit Features
- Column based text editing
- Support for large files
- Hex Editor
UltraEdit VS Buffer Text Editor
Is UltraEdit a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 166 PSPad alternatives
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, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.
Top PSPad Features
- Syntax Highlighting
- Support for MarkDown
- Support for scripting
- No registration required
- Portable
- WYSIWYG Support
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Code Formatting
- Ad-free
- Lightweight
- Works Offline
- Hex Editor
PSPad VS Buffer Text Editor
Is PSPad a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 150 SciTE alternatives
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 simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
SciTE VS Buffer Text Editor
Is SciTE a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 155 CotEditor alternatives
Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.
Top CotEditor Features
- macOS-like
- Colored Text
- File Versioning
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Dark Mode
- No Coding Required
- Syntax Highlighting
- Works Offline
CotEditor VS Buffer Text Editor
Is CotEditor a good alternative to Buffer Text Editor? - 119 BBEdit alternatives
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.
BBEdit Features
- Syntax Highlighting
- Works Offline
- Live Preview
- Code Completion
- Multiple languages
BBEdit VS Buffer Text Editor
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