Alternatives to Leafpad for Mac with any license

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Customizable Package Control ... Community based GIT support Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy Fuzzy Finder GitHub integration Gitlab integration Hackable Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Minimap Modular System Multiple cursors Support for Multiple programming languages Distraction-free UI Package Manager Plugin API 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. ...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple cursors Package Control ... Customizable Syntax Highlighting Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Optimized for fast boot Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Plugin API Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Text editing 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. It also has a...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Batch Editing ... Configurability Dedication to home row Keyboard focused Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Plugin manager Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs 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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Autocompletion Live Preview Built-in Level Editor Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Multiple languages Syntax Highlighting 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...

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

624 Like
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...

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...

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

285 Like
Tomboy

Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the...

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

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Coda

Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And a dash of SSH too. ...

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

269 Like
Neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple...

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

39 Like
jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

107 Like
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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
No features added 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:...

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
Command line interface Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

26 Like
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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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- 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.