Emacs Prelude AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like Emacs Prelude

Apps similar to Emacs Prelude include Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other options are VSCodium, Vim, Neovim and GNU Emacs. Text Editors like Emacs Prelude are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and Chrome OS.

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  1. Visual Studio Code icon
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    Free and extensible code editor with built-in Git support, smart IntelliSense, integrated debugger, 30,000+ extensions, works offline, supports markdown and syntax highlighting for numerous languages.

    242 Visual Studio Code alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
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    • Snapcraft
    • Chocolatey
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  2. VSCodium icon
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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.

    224 VSCodium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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    • Flathub
    • Electron
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  3. Vim icon
     1372 likes

    Advanced text editor with syntax highlighting, word completion, multiple editing modes for efficiency, plugin and script extensibility, GUI and command-line operation, a thorough help system, and cross-platform support across various operating systems.

    238 Vim alternatives

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    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
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  4. Neovim icon
     206 likes

    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.

    123 Neovim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
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  5. GNU Emacs icon
     392 likes

    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:

    210 GNU Emacs alternatives

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    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
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  6. Lapce icon
     27 likes

    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    205 Lapce alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  7. Kakoune icon
     21 likes

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

    96 Kakoune alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Cygwin
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  8. Spacemacs icon
     26 likes

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

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  9. BabelPad icon
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    BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

    153 BabelPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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