GNU Emacs Alternatives

Apps similar to GNU Emacs include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are Obsidian, Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text and VSCodium. There's no shortage of Text Editors like GNU Emacs, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Android.

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  1. wxMEdit icon
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    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    89 wxMEdit alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Lime Text icon
     32 likes

    Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.

    70 Lime Text alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. MacVim icon
     31 likes

    MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

    90 MacVim alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. Fresh editor icon
     4 likes

    High-performance terminal text editor developed in Rust, offering fast startup, low latency, extensibility, customizable keybindings, menu-driven native UI, robust mouse support, powerful command palette, cross-platform support, and syntax highlighting.

    52 Fresh editor alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. SlickEdit icon
     14 likes

    SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

    92 SlickEdit alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Leo Editor icon
     5 likes

    Leo is an open source text editor/outliner that features clones (virtual copies of outline nodes) as its central tool of organization, navigation, customization and scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7.  Like

    Remacs is a community-driven port of Emacs using Rust .

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    • Linux
    • Rust
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  8. Codeit icon
     2 likes

    Codeit is a mobile code editor connected to Git. Runs on the web, open source and free. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Bootstrap, XML and more. Easy to use without how to.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Haroopad icon
     68 likes

    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

    114 Haroopad alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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