Jove AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like Jove

Jove is described as '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' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Jove for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Jove alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Jove are VSCodium, Vim, GNU Emacs and GNU nano.

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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,...

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  1. Visual Studio Code icon
    Visual Studio Code icon

    Visual Studio Code

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    Visual Studio Code is a free and extensible code editor for building web, desktop, and mobile applications, using any programming language and framework.

    212 Visual Studio Code alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
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    Properties

    1.  Customizable
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Autocompletion
    3.  Built-in terminal emulation
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Code Completion
    6.  Multiple languages
    7. Git icon  Git Support
    8. GitHub icon  GitHub Integration
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  Supports Python
    11.  C++
    12.  Source code debugging
    Visual Studio Code iconJove Icon

    Visual Studio Code VS Jove

    Is Visual Studio Code a good alternative to Jove?
     

    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Jove.

    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular free alternative to Jove.

    • Visual Studio Code is Free and ProprietaryJove is Free and Open Source
    • Visual Studio Code is CustomizableJove is not according to our users
  2. VSCodium icon
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    VSCodium

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    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

    201 VSCodium alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Electron

    Properties

    1.  Customizable
    2.  Privacy focused
    3.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Prevent telemetry
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  No registration required
    6.  MIT License
    7.  Autocompletion
    8. Git icon  Git integration
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  Syntax Highlighting
    11.  Ad-free
    12.  Minimap
    VSCodium iconJove Icon

    VSCodium VS Jove

    Is VSCodium a good alternative to Jove?
     

    • VSCodium is the most popular Open Source alternative to Jove.

    • VSCodium is Free and Open SourceJove is also Free and Open Source
    • VSCodium is Customizable and Privacy focusedJove is not according to our users
  4. Vim icon
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    Vim

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    Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

    212 Vim alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
    GVim with netrw+airlines+ctrlspace+xkb-switch+monokai theme+Source Pro font
    Plugin Gitgutter shows added lines as '+' and altere as '~'.

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Keyboard focused
    3.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Hackable
    4.  Well documented
    5.  Modal editor
    6.  Command line interface
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  Support for MarkDown
    9.  No registration required
    10.  Portable
    11.  Batch Editing
    12.  Terminal-based
    Vim iconJove Icon

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  5. GNU Emacs icon
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    GNU Emacs

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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    177 GNU Emacs alternatives
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Homebrew
    • Snapcraft
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    Beyond just being able to edit plain text files, Emacs includes special features to help you write in many different human languages and programming/markup languages
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    Properties

    1.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Extensibility
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Org-mode
    4.  Self-documenting
    5.  Terminal-based
    6.  Multi OS
    7.  Syntax Highlighting
    8.  Support for scripting
    9.  Command line interface
    10.  No Tracking
    11.  IDE All Languages
    12.  Works Offline
    GNU Emacs iconJove Icon

    GNU Emacs VS Jove

    Is GNU Emacs a good alternative to Jove?
     

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to Jove.

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceJove is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is CustomizableJove is not according to our users
  6. GNU nano icon
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    GNU nano

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    GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

    144 GNU nano alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    GNU nano screenshot 1
    Color syntax
    +1
    GNU nano screenshot 3

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Terminal-based
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Automatic Indentation
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  7. CudaText icon
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    CudaText

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    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

    195 CudaText alternatives
    Multi-selections, Replace dialog at bottom

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    Dark theme, Minimap
    2 groups shown, picture file opened, JavaScript fragment in HTML
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    Code Tree for Pascal lexer

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Customizable
    3.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Native application
    3.  Minimap
    4.  Command palette
    5.  Autocompletion
    6.  Syntax Highlighting
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  No registration required
    9.  Portable
    CudaText iconJove Icon

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  9. Lapce icon
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    Lapce

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    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    196 Lapce alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Built-in terminal emulation
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5. Git icon  Git Support
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Full-Text Search
    8.  Ad-free
    9.  Works Offline
    10.  Dark Mode
    11.  Modal editor
    Lapce iconJove Icon

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  10. JetBrains Fleet icon
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    JetBrains Fleet

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    Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.

    196 JetBrains Fleet alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Code Formatting
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Autocompletion
    6.  Support for MarkDown
    JetBrains Fleet iconJove Icon

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  11. Spacemacs icon
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    Spacemacs

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    Spacemacs is an beautiful Emacs distribution designed for both GNU Emacs and Vim users.

    40 Spacemacs alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Spacemacs Features

    1.  EMACS
    2.  Vim
    3.  Vim key mapping
    4. GNU Emacs icon  Emacs integration
    Spacemacs screenshot 1
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    Spacemacs screenshot 3
    Spacemacs iconJove Icon

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  12. MacVim icon
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    MacVim

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    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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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    MacVim Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Vim
    MacVim iconJove Icon

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  13. BabelPad icon
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    BabelPad

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    BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

    153 BabelPad alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com

    BabelPad Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Support for Unicode
    3.  Multiple languages
    BabelPad iconJove Icon

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  14. Tilde icon
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    Tilde

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    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

    124 Tilde alternatives
    Tilde screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Full-Text Search
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Terminal-based
    Tilde iconJove Icon

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