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 Aug 13, 2024
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  1. SlickEdit icon

    SlickEdit

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

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    SlickEdit screenshot 1

    SlickEdit Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    SlickEdit VS GNU Emacs

     
  2. Haroopad icon

    Haroopad

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • KR flagSouth Korea

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Haroopad screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The last update was in December 2018.

    Haroopad Features

    1.  Support for MarkDown
    2.  Vim Key Mapping
    3.  Publishing

    Haroopad VS GNU Emacs

     
  4. Onivim 2 icon

    Onivim 2

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    Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor - the next iteration of the Onivim project - combining Vim-style modal editing with the aesthetics and language features of modern editors.

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Onivim 2 screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The last GitHub commit is from December 11, 2021.

    Onivim 2 Features

    1.  Command palette
    2.  Code Completion

    Onivim 2 VS GNU Emacs

     
  5. Runestone icon

    Runestone

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    A performant, lightweight, and simple plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DK flagDenmark
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    Runestone screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Privacy focused
    3.  Distraction-free
    4.  Lightweight
    5.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Code Formatting
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Support for MarkDown
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  No registration required

    Runestone VS GNU Emacs

     
  6. Lime Text icon

    Lime Text

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Lime Text screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    It would appear that Lime Text has been abandoned. It's web site is unavailable and it appears no work has been done on it since last year.

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Lime Text VS GNU Emacs

     
  7. SpaceNeovim icon

    SpaceNeovim

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    SpaceNeovim is Spacemacs for Neovim . It's a fork of Spacevim that focuses on Neovim functions.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    SpaceNeovim screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last GitHub commit on Mar 2020.

    SpaceNeovim Features

    1.  Modular extensions
    2.  EMACS

    SpaceNeovim VS GNU Emacs

     

  9. Remacs

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust

    Remacs Features

    1.  EMACS
    2.  Rust

    Remacs VS GNU Emacs

     

  10. Vis

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    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vis screenshot 1

    Vis Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Modal editor

    Vis VS GNU Emacs

     
  11. SynWrite icon

    SynWrite

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    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander
    SynWrite screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last update was on 29-08-2017. Synwrite is continued on CudaText.Only there is no Total Commander plug-in with CudaText.

    SynWrite Features

    1.  Spell Checking
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Portable
    4.  Tree structure

    SynWrite VS GNU Emacs

     
  12. SuperbEdit icon

    SuperbEdit

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    Extensible and light programmers' text editor.

    SuperbEdit features Syntax Highlighting, Folder Management, Source Control Integration and much more...

    Extensible SuperbEdit has been developed from the start to be extensible via Plugins (called Packages)

    It's easy to cr.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    SuperbEdit screenshot 1

    SuperbEdit Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Syntax Highlighting

    SuperbEdit VS GNU Emacs

     
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