Alternatives to EmEditor for Linux with any license

Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.
- handles more file types and is very customizable Guest • Sep 2019
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Built-in Terminal Customizable ... Intellisense Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion GIT support C# Scripting Code completion IDE Support for Javascript Multiple cursors Night mode/Dark Theme Bugs C++ support C support Code formatting Code navigation Color coding of code Electron based Embedded debugger Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Git integration Graphical interface MarkDown support Mercurial support Minimap PHP IDE Plugins Ruby support Run Android Apps on Desktop Support for NodeJS Supports Python Version and Source control 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. ...

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

1819 Like
Vim

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Syntax Highlighting ... Keyboard focused Open source software Plugins Batch Editing Built-in terminal emulation Command line Command line interface Configurable Dedication to home row For geek Hackable Support for Large File Lightweight MarkDown support Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Native application Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Vim Buffers Vim folding Visual Mode Well documented Word completion Add a feature

1143 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 Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD ... GNOME OpenSolaris
Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

647 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

222 Like
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

151 Like
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

142 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
VSCodium

Binary releases of Visual Sudio Code without Microsoft branding, telemetry and licensing.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
No Tracking Automatic Indentation Autocompletion Built-in Terminal ... Code completion Code navigation Color coding Customizable Embedded debugger Extensible by Plugins/Extensions FLOSS Git integration GIT support IDE Support for Javascript MarkDown support Minimap Multiple cursors PHP IDE Privacy Protected Syntax Highlighting Support for Themes Add a feature

21 Like
Leafpad

Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are...

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Cygwin MacPorts
Lightweight Drag n drop Simple text editor Add a feature

62 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

108 Like
ReText

ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview. It is written in Python using Qt...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Live Preview Add a feature

39 Like
wxMEdit

wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit .

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Hex Editor Portable Add a feature

21 Like
CudaText

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. It starts quite fast (0.5 sec with ~30 plugins on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz). It is extensible by Python...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Command palette Customizable Lightweight Add a feature

10 Like
Xed

A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.

Free Open Source Linux
Automatic Indentation Customizable Lightweight Syntax Highlighting ... UI customization Support for Unicode Add a feature

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EmEditor

Alternatives to EmEditor for Linux with any license

Visual Studio Code

Sublime Text

Vim

gedit

GNU nano

UltraEdit

Bluefish Editor

SciTE

VSCodium

Leafpad

jEdit

ReText

wxMEdit

CudaText

Xed

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