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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Custom Language Definitions Portable Tabbed interface ... Auto-saving Autocompletion Block edit Built-in editor Code formatting Color coding Column edit mode Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Integrated Search Live Preview Macros Multiple languages Multiple Open Tabs Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

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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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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 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 Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Vim Buffers Visual Mode Word completion 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 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...

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 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...

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

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VSCodium

Binary releases of Visual Sudio Code without Microsoft branding, telemetry and licensing.

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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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...

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

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vile

vile is a portable vi clone with extra features and other improvements. It's a text editor that attempts to combine the best aspects of the popular Emacs and vi...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Cygwin
Portable Add a feature

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mg

OpenBSD Mg editor. Portable Public Domain Micro Emacs for *BSD, Cygwin, Linux, Mac OS X.
- - Very quick lightweight editor - same keymap as Emacs surehand53 • Jun 2018
Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Cygwin
Same keymap as Emacs Add a feature

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Veonim

Veonim is a simple modal IDE built on Neovim and VSCode extensions. The goal is to create my ideal programming environment. Features: • Superfast with things like...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
IDE Vim key mapping Add a feature

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Vis

Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support...

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD
Console-based Modal editor Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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Modern and efficient cool little editor that runs on almost anything

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