ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.


LopeEdit is described as 'Powerful programmers editor and a replacement of Windows Notepad. It has tabs to select between open files, supports syntax highlighting of multiple programing languages (C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, XML, HTML, ASP, JSP, SQL, Cobol, C#, CSS' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to LopeEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Web-based apps. The best LopeEdit alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LopeEdit are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.


Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.




TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.




BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

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




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.




010 Editor is a professional text/hex editor designed to edit any file, drive, or process on your machine. Using Binary Templates technology, 010 Editor allows a binary file to be parsed into a data structure that can be understood.




Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.


HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor featuring AI-assisted code improvements, HTML validator, spell check, FTP access, snippet library, and multi-browser previews for effective web development.




EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories and search results.

