JuffEd Alternatives

    JuffEd is described as 'free, cross-platform text editor for programmers and advanced users. It has syntax highlighting for many languages, code folding, find/replace using plain text and regexps, code completion, multiple charsets and many other useful features' and is a Text Editor in the Development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to JuffEd for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Chrome OS. The best alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like JuffEd are Atom (Free, Open Source), Vim (Free, Open Source), Kate (Free, Open Source) and Bluefish Editor (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Jan 27, 2021
    1. Visual Studio Code is more than just a code editor, it provides the tools and extensions to compile, debug, compare, refactor, and even manage code repositories all within a highly-customised development environment.
      show more ▾
    2. Atom is an open-source, Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.
      show more ▾
    4. 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.
      show more ▾
    5. The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application.
      show more ▾
    6. Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
      show more ▾
    8. CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. It starts quite fast (0.5 sec with ~30 plugins on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz). It is extensible by Python add-ons (plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools).
      show more ▾
    9. TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
      show more ▾
    10. Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.
      show more ▾
    11. Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.
      show more ▾
    12. Code (formerly known as Scratch) is an advanced text editor built for and bundled with elementary OS.
    Showing 10 of 29 alternatives