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. PilotEdit icon
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    PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search and replace operations, HEX mode, column mode, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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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...

    150 Vis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. SynWrite icon
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    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    167 SynWrite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Total Commander
     
  4. Caret icon
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    Caret is a lightweight-but-powerful programmer's editor running as a Chrome Packaged App. Inspired by Sublime and built on top of the Ace editing component, it offers:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
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    Cream is a free text editor.

    A modern configuration of the powerful and famous Vim , Cream is for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Vim
     
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    Cursive is a is a ClojureScript IDE available as an extension for IntelliJ IDEA. It provides a full-featured tool-set including advanced structural editing, refactoring, VCS integration and much more, all out of the box.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • IntelliJ IDEA
     
  7. Editor.do icon
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    Editor.do is an all-in-one online IDE and hosting solution for creating, coding, and deploying static websites quickly. With over 1000 templates and libraries, it's ideal for developers of all levels.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. ecode icon
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    Lightweight multi-platform code editor with hardware-accelerated GUI, customizable minimalist interface, syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, terminal and LSP support, plugin extensibility, unlimited editor splits, persistent project state, and portable, ad-free use.

    58 ecode alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  9. RJ TextEd icon
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    RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates...

    124 RJ TextEd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  10. Fresh editor icon
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    Fresh is a high-performance text editor for the terminal, made in Rust. It's built for speed, responsiveness and extensibility, incorporating features and concepts from the very rich history of successful editors.

    50 Fresh editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Ox editor icon
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    Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. Ki Editor icon
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    Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
     
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