gedit Alternatives

gedit is described as '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' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to gedit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best gedit alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like gedit are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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    Notepad! is the free, powerful, feature-rich replacement for your Windows Notepad. This software is completely free to use, for both personal and business purposes. With multi-document editing, split editing (two views of the same document, side by side, with synchronized...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. TEA icon
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    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. IT-Edit icon
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    IT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing interface and terminals in the same window as the editor.

    121 IT-Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. MadEdit icon
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    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
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    Smallest Vi-clone text editor for Windows (62KB) that runs in terminal and SSH sessions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  6. ptext icon
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    A nano like text editor built with pure C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. skEdit icon
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    Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  8. TeraPad icon
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    TeraPad is very light-weight text editor which supports styling for css html js and other major languages.

    46 TeraPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Basic Notepad is a plain and simple text editor. You can use this wonderful too to process your plain text documents easy without any text formatting.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. QuickNote icon
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    Virtual scrapbook for Desktop with a plain text editor. With Quicknote, in its resizable window you can jot down your notes and organize them in categories. Beneath the normal text functions, it can let you directly access frequently run programs, manage windows tasks, and even...

    148 QuickNote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Hacker Pad icon
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    Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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