Emacs Prelude AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like Emacs Prelude

Emacs Prelude is described as 'Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 24 configuration that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Emacs Prelude for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Emacs Prelude alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Emacs Prelude are VSCodium, Vim, Neovim and GNU Emacs.

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Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 24 configuration that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.

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  1. Visual Studio Code icon
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    Visual Studio Code

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    Visual Studio Code is a free and extensible code editor for building web, desktop, and mobile applications, using any programming language and framework.

    209 Visual Studio Code alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
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    Properties

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  IDE
    3.  Built-in terminal emulation
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Code Completion
    6.  Multiple languages
    7.  Git Support
    8.  GitHub Integration
    9.  Support for Themes
    10.  Dark Mode
    11.  Supports Python
    12.  C++
    13.  Source code debugging
    14.  Multiple Cursors
    15.  Graphical User Interface
    16.  Support for MarkDown
    17.  Auto Update
    18.  Plug-ins
    19.  Support for Node.js
    20.  Support for Javascript
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    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Emacs Prelude.

    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular free alternative to Emacs Prelude.

    • Visual Studio Code is Free and ProprietaryEmacs Prelude is Free and Open Source
    • Visual Studio Code is CustomizableEmacs Prelude is not according to our users
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    VSCodium

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    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

    198 VSCodium alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Electron

    Properties

    1.  Customizable
    2.  Privacy focused
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Prevent telemetry
    3.  IDE
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  No registration required
    6.  MIT License
    7.  Autocompletion
    8.  Support for Themes
    9.  Git integration
    10.  Dark Mode
    11.  Syntax Highlighting
    12.  Ad-free
    13.  Minimap
    14.  Clean design
    15.  Color coding
    16.  Built-in terminal emulation
    17.  Support for MarkDown
    18.  Code navigation
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    • VSCodium is the most popular Open Source alternative to Emacs Prelude.

    • VSCodium is Free and Open SourceEmacs Prelude is also Free and Open Source
    • VSCodium is Customizable and Privacy focusedEmacs Prelude is not according to our users
  4. Vim icon
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    Vim

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    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.

    209 Vim alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
    GVim with netrw+airlines+ctrlspace+xkb-switch+monokai theme+Source Pro font
    Plugin Gitgutter shows added lines as '+' and altere as '~'.

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Customizable
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  Keyboard focused
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Hackable
    4.  Well documented
    5.  Modal editor
    6.  Command line interface
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  Support for MarkDown
    9.  No registration required
    10.  Portable
    11.  Batch Editing
    12.  Terminal-based
    13.  Macro Recording
    14.  Built-in terminal emulation
    15.  Support for Large File
    16.  Dedication to home row
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  5. Neovim icon
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    Neovim

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    Refactored version of Vim, simplifying maintenance, improving developer contributions, and enabling new user interfaces. Features extensible plugin architecture, lightweight resource usage, syntax highlighting, no registration, ad-free, and distraction-free mode.

    100 Neovim alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Neovim screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Configurable
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  Lua scripting
    2.  Terminal-based
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Asynchronous
    5.  Vim
    6.  Sane defaults
    7.  Distraction-free
    8.  Ad-free
    9.  No registration required
    10.  Autocompletion
    11.  Code Formatting
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  6. GNU Emacs icon
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    GNU Emacs

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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    174 GNU Emacs alternatives
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Homebrew
    • Snapcraft
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    Beyond just being able to edit plain text files, Emacs includes special features to help you write in many different human languages and programming/markup languages
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    Properties

    1.  Customizable
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  Extensibility
    2.  Org-mode
    3.  Self-documenting
    4.  IDE
    5.  Terminal-based
    6.  Multi OS
    7.  Syntax Highlighting
    8.  Support for scripting
    9.  Command line interface
    10.  No Tracking
    11.  IDE All Languages
    12.  Editable text color schemes
    13.  Code Completion
    14.  Package Control
    15.  Works Offline
    16.  Spell Checking
    17.  Ad-free
    18.  Support for MarkDown
    19.  No registration required
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    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to Emacs Prelude.

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceEmacs Prelude is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is CustomizableEmacs Prelude is not according to our users
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    CudaText

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    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

    193 CudaText alternatives
    Multi-selections, Replace dialog at bottom

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    Dark theme, Minimap
    2 groups shown, picture file opened, JavaScript fragment in HTML
    +3
    Code Tree for Pascal lexer

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Native application
    2.  Minimap
    3.  Command palette
    4.  Autocompletion
    5.  Syntax Highlighting
    6.  Support for Themes
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  No registration required
    9.  Portable
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  9. Lapce icon
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    Lapce

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    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    194 Lapce alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Built-in terminal emulation
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Git Support
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Support for Themes
    7.  Full-Text Search
    8.  Ad-free
    9.  Works Offline
    10.  Dark Mode
    11.  Modal editor
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  10. Helix icon
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    Helix

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    Helix is a fast text editor for the terminal inspired by modal editors like Kakoune and Neovim. Built as a native app using .

    80 Helix alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Autocompletion
    4.  Code Formatting
    5.  Support for Themes
    6.  No Tracking
    7.  Git Support
    8.  Distraction-free
    9.  Ad-free
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  11. JetBrains Fleet icon
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    JetBrains Fleet

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    Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.

    193 JetBrains Fleet alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Support for MarkDown
    4.  Autocompletion
    5.  Code Formatting
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  12. Kakoune icon
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    Kakoune

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    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    81 Kakoune alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
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    Kakoune Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Modal editor
    4.  Works in a terminal
    5.  Multiple Cursors
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  13. Spacemacs icon
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    Spacemacs

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    Spacemacs is an beautiful Emacs distribution designed for both GNU Emacs and Vim users.

    40 Spacemacs alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Spacemacs Features

    1.  EMACS
    2.  Vim
    3.  Vim key mapping
    4.  Emacs integration
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    MacVim

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    MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

    90 MacVim alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    MacVim Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Vim
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