3977 Like Notepad++ Good alternative? YES NO Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Block edit Code formatting Color coding Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Tabbed interface Add a feature
758 Like Atom Good alternative? YES NO 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 Customizable GIT support Package Control Support for Themes Community based ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions GitHub integration Gitlab integration Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Minimap Modular System Support for Multiple programming languages Distraction-free UI Plugin API Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
981 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO 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 Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature
280 Like Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO 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 Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Built-in Terminal Customizable Intellisense Code completion Dark theme ... Lightweight Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration GIT support MarkDown support Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Version and Source control Add a feature
597 Like gedit Good alternative? YES NO 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 BSD GNOME OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
423 Like Geany Good alternative? YES NO Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Xfce Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
171 Like GNU nano Good alternative? YES NO 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 Linux BSD Haiku Automatic Indentation Command line interface Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature
265 Like GNU Emacs Good alternative? YES NO 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
161 Like Kate Good alternative? YES NO Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface. ... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE Code formatting Support for regular expressions Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Add a feature
275 Like Notepad2 Good alternative? YES NO Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
189 Like PSPad Good alternative? YES NO PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code... Free Windows Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
150 Like Notepad Good alternative? YES NO Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows. Free Windows Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows Add a feature
130 Like SciTE Good alternative? YES NO SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce No features added Add a feature
138 Like UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
77 Like AkelPad Good alternative? YES NO A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages. Features * Single window (SDI)... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com No features added Add a feature
