Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
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Micro vs Notepad++ Comments
- Micro is Free and Open Source
- Micro is Customizable
Notepad++ Alternatives for Linux
Notepad++ is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Notepad++ and loads of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Notepad++ are Visual Studio Code, Geany, Kate and Vim.
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46 Micro alternatives
63 Edit alternativesOpen-source command-line text editor for Windows with a modern interface inspired by MS-DOS Editor, featuring key bindings, lightweight build under 250KB, multi-file handling with ctrl + P, keyboard-optimized navigation, and direct file editing for developers.
32 Notepadqq alternativesNotepadqq is designed from developers, for developers. With its more than 100 supported languages, it is the ideal text editor for your daily tasks.
Notepadqq vs Notepad++ Comments
Top Positive CommentFor those looking to replace Notepad++'s UI and functionality with a similar editor but on Linux, this is by far the most similar to Notepad++. The other alternatives are similar in the sense that they are code/text editors but not that they look abnd work the same.
david12345It is the program most like Notepad++ For Linux
A lots of common functions with Notepad++, but slower...
- Notepadqq is Free and Open Source
62 Lite XL alternativesLite XL is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.
196 CudaText alternativesCudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.
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CudaText vs Notepad++ Comments
johnhkVery serios contender to npp. Developed by the dude that also gave us SynWrite. Very Cool
Cudatext is great, but it NOT working out of the box is the big letdown. You need to faff first and nobody got time for dat....
- CudaText is Free and Open Source
- CudaText is Customizable
211 UltraEdit alternativesUltraEdit 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 disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).
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62 Athas alternativesLightweight, open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux featuring Vim keybindings, built-in Git support, agentic AI editing with multiple models, syntax highlighting, LSP for intelligent completion, fast performance, and efficient workflows.
213 Bluefish Editor alternativesBluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
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- Flathub
- Haiku
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 programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
SciTE vs Notepad++ Comments
xxavxA simpler version of Notepad++. Supports all the jazz you'll need: syntax higlighting, it's clever with Tabs, mass renaminc, etc. No macros though.
A simple and hackable notepad.
- SciTE is Free and Open Source
80 Zasper alternativesA 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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it has alot more features in unix because it has a terminal attatched to it simple easy to use also hackable