Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.
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Free Notepad++ Alternatives for Mac
Notepad++ is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best free Mac alternative is Sublime Text. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Notepad++ and loads of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to Notepad++ are Visual Studio Code, Geany, Kate and Vim.
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164 CotEditor alternatives
157 SciTE alternativesSciTE 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 programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...
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38 Phoenix Code alternativesPhoenix Code is a text editor designed to make coding as intuitive and fun as playing a video game - specially crafted for web developers, designers, and students.
A powerful IDE for data science, Zasper excels with massive concurrency support, enabling numerous simultaneous connections, minimal memory usage, and speedy performance. Suited for REPL-style data apps like Jupyter notebooks, fully supported on Mac with limited Linux support.
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118 BBEdit alternativesBBEdit 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.
104 Leafpad alternativesLeafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.
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87 Kakoune alternativesVim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.
71 Notepad Next alternativesA cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Releases are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
19 Pragtical alternativesPragtical is a code editor which was forked from Lite XL (also a fork of lite) written mostly in Lua with a focus on been practical rather than minimalist. The name of the editor is a mixture of the words pragmatic and practical, two words that properly define our development...
137 jEdit alternativesjEdit 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...
59 ecode alternativesLightweight multi-platform code editor with hardware-accelerated GUI, customizable minimalist interface, syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, terminal and LSP support, plugin extensibility, unlimited editor splits, persistent project state, and portable, ad-free use.
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Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.
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- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
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A simpler version of Notepad++. Supports all the jazz you'll need: syntax higlighting, it's clever with Tabs, mass renaminc, etc. No macros though.