Open Source Notepad++ Alternatives

Popular open source Alternatives to Notepad++ for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD, PortableApps.com and more. Explore 25+ apps like Notepad++, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community.

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. If your looking for more info about Notepad++ like screenshots, reviews and comments you should visit our info page about it. Below you find the best alternatives.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 2/14/2019 10:37:00 AM

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  • slap

    slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier. It has: * first-class mouse support * GUI editor-like keybindings * copying/pasting with OS clipboard support * undo/redo * syntax highlighting for many languages * a Sublime-like file sidebar * select word to highlight other occurrences; double-click to select word * easy-to-use finding with regex support * bracket matching * ...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Node.JS

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  • wxMEdit

    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better Max OS X and Windows support, better hex editing support, nicer dialogs based on Code::Blocks wxSmith, more localizations, is a bit more stable and comes with an improved build system.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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  • Mousepad

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins. Features: * Complete support for UTF-8 text * Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text * Search and Replace * Font selection * Word Wrap * Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some codesets) * Infinite Undo/Redo * Auto Indent * Multi-line Indent * Drag and Drop * Printing

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce

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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 for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless extensibility without sacrificing speed or succumbing to code bloat and featuritis.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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  • 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 supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 60 programming languages. Editra is freely available for personal use under the terms of the wxWindows License.

    • 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.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • GNOME Builder

    Builder is an IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of the platform to more developers than ever before. The Builder project started out of a class teaching people to program for the GNOME platform. In the process, we realized that we need to improve our tooling so we started creating Builder!

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • Kakoune

    Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones. Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode. Kakoune has a strong focus on interactivity, most commands provide immediate and incremental results, while still being competitive (as in keystroke count) with Vim.

    Free Open Source Mac Linux Cygwin

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  • Anjuta

    Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME and features a number of advanced programming facilities including project management, application wizards, an interactive debugger and a powerful source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting. Anjuta is an effort to marry the flexibility and power of text-based command-line tools with the ease of use of the GNOME graphical user interface.

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

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  • Oni

    Coming from Atom/VSCode? Unlike most Electron-based editors, Oni features a high-performance canvas renderer, along with neovim at the core - providing a complete vim experience without emulation. Coming from vim/neovim? Keep your workflow while enjoying the perks of new code editors, like out-of-box completion & fuzzy find - in a modern, beautiful package. New to modal editing? Oni makes it easy to learn and get started!

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • medit

    medit is a programming and around-programming text editor. Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Xfce

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  • Xed

    Xed is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. Xed is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI). Xed fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files.

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

    Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML autocompletion support, automatic updating of files included within other files, and direct FTP integration. It was inspired by Macintosh Programmer's Workshop and BBEdit -- both editors on MacOS.

    Free Open Source Haiku

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  • Zinjai

    ZinjaI is an IDE (integrated development environment) for C + + developed in the context of a Starter Grant from the Scientific Research at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, designed for use by students of programming.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • MacVim

    MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z, ?V, ?A, ?G, etc.), * transparent backgrounds, * full-screen mode, * multibyte editing with OS X input methods and automatic font substitution, * ODB editor support, and more. Note: MacVim is in no way connected with http://macvim.org .

    Free Open Source Mac

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  • Text Editor Pro

    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.

    Free Open Source Windows

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  • metapad

    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much, much more. metapad's enhanced feature set includes: * Persistent window placement * Dirty file notification * Intelligent Find and Replace * External viewer support (e.g.

    Free Open Source Windows

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  • CudaText

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. Features include: Syntax highlight for many languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, XML... totally about 140 lexers exist. Code folding. Multi-carets, multi-selections. Find/replace with regex. Split tab, split view for 2/3/4 files. Command palette like ST3. Text configs like ST3.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • Scribes

    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power. Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks. The result is a text editor that provides a fluid user experience. An editor that is easy and fun to use. And an editor that ensures the safety of your documents at all times. Watch the flash demo to see Scribes in action.

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • MadEdit

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets. MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions, e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings (UTF8/16/32,Big5,GBK...) and WordCount. Features MadEdit can run under Linux, FreeBSD and MS-Windows platforms. Edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes. In Hex-Mode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).

    • Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

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  • Notepas

    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler. Exclusive features: - Alpha blended coloring supporting multiple layers of transparency for both text and background. - Code filter: a tool to filter lines that match a given search string or regular expression. - Code shaper: a set of tools to apply advanced formatting rules to a text selection.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • Kaxaml

    Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a "split view" so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the gigabyte of SDK). Kaxaml is a hobby and was created to be shared, so its free!

    • Discontinued Visit kaxaml.com... Doesn't seem to be actively maintained

    Free Open Source Windows

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