GNU Emacs Alternatives

GNU Emacs is described as 'Extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core n interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GNU Emacs for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best GNU Emacs alternative is Obsidian, which is free. Other great apps like GNU Emacs are Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, VSCodium and Sublime Text.

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GNU Emacs alternatives page was last updated Jul 5, 2025
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  1. JOE icon

    JOE

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    JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    JOE screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last update on Apr 2021 and last release on Jan 2018.

    JOE Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Support for Large File

    JOE VS GNU Emacs

     
  2. Black Playground icon

    Black Playground

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    The uncompromising Python code formatter.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    Black Playground screenshot 1

    Black Playground Features

    1.  Ad-free

    Black Playground VS GNU Emacs

     
  4. TeXnicCenter icon

    TeXnicCenter

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    TeXnicCenter is a feature rich and easy-to-use integrated environment for creating LaTeX documents on the Windows platform. Its powerful editor and its tight integration with the LaTeX environment helps you to concentrate on what matters: The content of your document.

    27 TeXnicCenter alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    TeXnicCenter user interface
    Discontinued

    Last update seems to be from 2014

    TeXnicCenter Features

    1. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
    2.  Tex

    TeXnicCenter VS GNU Emacs

     
  5. FoldingText icon

    FoldingText

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    FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.

    121 FoldingText alternatives

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    FoldingText screenshot 1

    FoldingText Features

    1.  No Subscription
    2.  Outline folding
    3.  Timer
    4.  Tagging
    5.  Coding

    FoldingText VS GNU Emacs

     
  6. Vimflowy icon

    Vimflowy

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    Vimflowy is an innovative, open-source notebook and list making app that combines the infinite list and note taking powers of Workflowy with a Vim like workspace.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Vimflowy screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The dev doesnt mantain it anymore"NOTE: I don't have time to maintain this anymore, sorry!"October 2022

    Vimflowy Features

    1.  Vim Key Mapping
    2.  Notebook
    3.  Cloning task

    Vimflowy VS GNU Emacs

     
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    Judge0 IDE

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    Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

    169 Judge0 IDE alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • HR flagCroatia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Judge0 IDE screenshot 1

    Judge0 IDE VS GNU Emacs

     
  9. Diakonos icon

    Diakonos

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    Diakonos is a powerful and easy to use console-based text editor.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Diakonos screenshot 1

    Diakonos Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Console-based

    Diakonos VS GNU Emacs

     
  10. Traditional Ex - Vi editor icon

    Traditional Ex - Vi editor

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    The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vi session editing, tildes signify lines not present in the file.
    Discontinued

    The last update is from 2013.

    Traditional Ex - Vi editor VS GNU Emacs

     
  11. Mystix icon

    Mystix

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    Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Mystix screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.3.1, released in November 2005, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Mystix Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Multiple languages
    3.  Support for regular expressions

    Mystix VS GNU Emacs

     
  12. Jove icon

    Jove

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    Jove is a compact, powerful, Emacs-style text-editor. It provides the common emacs keyboard bindings, together with a reasonable assortment of the most popular advanced features (e.g., interactive shell windows, compile-it, language specific modes) while weighing in with CPU...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MS-DOS
    Jove running on Debian Linux

    Jove Features

    1.  Command line interface

    Jove VS GNU Emacs

     
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