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 Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best GNU Emacs alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU Emacs are Obsidian, Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text and VSCodium.

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  1. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. BVRDE icon
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    The BVRDE is a fully integrated development environment for remote cross-platform compiling and debugging of UNIX and LINUX console applications. BVRDE runs on a Windows platform, but compiles and debugs applications on UNIX systems or any system that allow a remote Telnet or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  3. ne icon
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    ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.

    42 ne alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. 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
     
  5. Suplemon icon
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    Console text editor with multi cursor support. Suplemon replicates Sublime Text style functionality in the terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. Zee icon
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    Zee is a modern editor for the terminal, written in Rust. It is a highly experimental code. In the old tradition of text editor demos, here's what it currently looks like editing its own source code.

    26 Zee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    A programming editor for DOS environments. More specifically, it is something that looks like a programming editor for DOS environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • MS-DOS
    • Windows
     
  8. Heraia icon
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    Lightweight HEX-Editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  9. Code Writer icon
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    Code Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.

    181 Code Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. TEXTREME icon
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    TEXTREME is a lively, animated text editor with the feel of a retro videogame complete with sounds and game-like visual effects. The screen shakes as you type while particle effects decorate new characters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Devpad icon
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    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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