Leafpad Alternatives for Mac

Alternatives to Leafpad for Mac with any license

Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Built-in Terminal Intellisense ... Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Customizable GIT support Code completion IDE Support for Javascript Multiple cursors Night mode/Dark Theme Bugs C# Scripting Code formatting Code navigation Color coding of code Electron based Embedded debugger Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Git integration MarkDown support Mercurial support Minimap PHP IDE Run Android Apps on Desktop Support for NodeJS Version and Source control Add a feature

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Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD ... Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable Support for Themes Package Control ... Community based GIT support Teletype Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Collaborative writing Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy Fuzzy Finder GitHub integration Gitlab integration Hackable Interior Design Live collaboration Minimap Modular System Multiple languages Multiple cursors Distraction-free UI Package Manager Plugin API Plugin manager Real time collaboration Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Unit Testing Add a feature

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free without an expiration time limit, however a license must be purchased for continued use.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Package Control Multiple cursors ... Customizable Syntax Highlighting Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Directory structure Fullscreen support Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Open Source apps Plugin API Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Text editing Auto-Refresh Add a feature

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Vim

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. Vim offers several “modes” for editing with efficiency. This makes vim a non-user-friendly application but it is also a strength. The normal mode binds alphanumeric keys to task-oriented commands. The visual mode highlights text. The command-line mode offers more tools (for search&replace, defining functions, etc.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris
Customizable Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Keyboard focused ... Syntax Highlighting Batch Editing Configurable Dedication to home row Support for Large File Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Plugin manager Plugins Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Vim Buffers Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature

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Brackets

Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. It's crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers. Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Live Preview Autocompletion Syntax Highlighting Built-in Level Editor ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File-sync Multiple languages Streamlined interface Add a feature

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gedit

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD ... GNOME OpenSolaris
Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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GNU nano

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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku
Command line interface Automatic Indentation Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature

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GNU Emacs

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: * Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML. * Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature

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Neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple developers. Enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source. Improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature

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Tomboy

Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. FEATURES - Highlighting text - Spell checking - Auto-linking web & email addresses - Font styling & sizing - Bulleted lists - Note synchronization across several computers - Backup and Recovery

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Automatic link generation Local Storage Symbolic links Add a feature

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Coda

You code for the web. You demand a fast, clean, and powerful text editor. Pixel-perfect preview. A built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And maybe a dash of SSH. Say hello, Coda. Features: • Touch Bar. On the new MacBook Pro, switch instantly between editor and preview, comment lines in a flash, and much more. • Speed. Syntax highlighting is anywhere from 4 to 10 times faster. Symbol parsing is 10 times faster. It’s real zippier. • Editor Improvements.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad
Built-in File Manager Live css editing Real time collaboration Syntax Highlighting ... Team Collaboration Add a feature

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Bluefish Editor

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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
PHP IDE Support for SFTP Add a feature

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VSCodium

This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's VSCode. Microsoft's downloads of Visual Studio Code are licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contain telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Automatic Indentation Autocompletion Built-in Terminal Code completion ... Code navigation Color coding Customizable Embedded debugger Extensible by Plugins/Extensions FLOSS Git integration GIT support Html5 IDE Support for Javascript MarkDown support Minimap Multiple cursors No Tracking PHP IDE Privacy Protected Syntax Highlighting Support for Themes Add a feature

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jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Java Add a feature

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ReText

ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview. It is written in Python using Qt libraries, able to run on any platforms (Linux and BSD are officially supported).

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Live Preview Add a feature

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CotEditor

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings. Scriptable: Make your own macro in your favorite language, whether it is Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, UNIX shell, AppleScript or JavaScript. Outline Menu: Extract specified lines with the predefined syntax, and you can jump to the corresponding line.

Free Open Source Mac
macOS-like Colored Text File Versioning Add a feature

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Textadept

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless extensibility without sacrificing speed or succumbing to code bloat and featuritis.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Command line interface Lua scripting Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Oni

Coming from Atom/VSCode? Unlike most Electron-based editors, Oni features a high-performance canvas renderer, along with neovim at the core - providing a complete vim experience without emulation. Coming from vim/neovim? Keep your workflow while enjoying the perks of new code editors, like out-of-box completion & fuzzy find - in a modern, beautiful package. New to modal editing? Oni makes it easy to learn and get started!

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Code completion Command palette Add a feature

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Kakoune

Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones. Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode. Kakoune has a strong focus on interactivity, most commands provide immediate and incremental results, while still being competitive (as in keystroke count) with Vim.

Free Open Source Mac Linux Cygwin
Autocompletion Modal editor Multiple cursors Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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CudaText

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). Features include: Syntax highlight for many languages: C, C++, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, XML etc. 200+ syntax lexers exist. Code tree (tree structure of functions/classes/etc in source). Code folding. Multi-carets and multi-selections.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Command palette Customizable Lightweight Add a feature

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Editra

Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 60 programming languages. Editra is freely available for personal use under the terms of the wxWindows License.
- Discontinued The latest version available for download from the website is nearly 5 years old, from 2013. The last sign of activity on the blog ( a blog post ) is from 2015.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
IDE Add a feature

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medit

medit is a programming and around-programming text editor. Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Xfce
Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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FoldingText

FoldingText is the markdown text editor with productivity features. Unlike other editors, FoldingText does outlining, todo lists, and more. - Plain text - Outline formatting - Fold and Focus to see - Live formatting - Scripts, themes, and plugins - Plain text productivity platform

Commercial Mac
Coding No Subscription Outline folding Tags Support ... To-Do management Add a feature

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Graviton Code Editor

Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity. FEATURES - Themes - Plugins - Full compatibility with CodeMirror themes - Zen Mode - Large language syntax highlighting support - Code - Autocomplete - Amazing API

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Plugin API Plugins Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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JOE

JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Command line interface Add a feature

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