Sublime Text Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. ... Better looking UI and it's available across all platforms. Also, Package Control is amazing Akoot • Mar 2017 • 13 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree It's fast and has powerful editor features. Usability and UX of Sublime Text are just outstanding. Guest • May 2017 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree It has all the features I need without having to install more than a few extensions. 914ian914 • Feb 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Modern looking UI, fast and powerful editor, lots of plugins/package that will help you code. I use both sublime and atom for most of the time. rickysantoso • Jul 2018 Disagree Agree FTP is a lot easier to use than in Sublime, where you need to install a package manager and install a package like Sublime FTP, which isn't nearly as user-friendly as Notepad++. Guest • Nov 2017 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Notepad++ allows toggling bookmarks with a single click. CeesT • Mar 2017 • 6 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree Search and replace is not upto the level of notepad++ Guest • Mar 2017 • 6 agrees and 12 disagrees Disagree Agree Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple cursors Package Control ... Customizable Syntax Highlighting Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Directory structure Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Plugin API Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Text editing Add a feature 1710 Like
Atom 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... What should be a simple application is implemented in the extremely bloated Electron framework. No thanks, I'll take something native. Guest • Feb 2018 • 53 agrees and 17 disagrees Disagree Agree Despite sometimes high demanding (for an text editor), good as an Editor/IDE. Guest • May 2016 • 7 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Amazing UI, large variety of useful plugins, nice features like multiple cursors, open source and free to use Ruebz999 • Dec 2016 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Great UI. Great Packages (extensions). Support for several programming languages. Great developers and community. Free and Open Source. Guest • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Atom can split windows and allow users to work on multiple files simultaneously, while also integrating plugins. I would say it's better than Notepad++ for many programming tasks. Guest • Sep 2015 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Open-source. Community-driven. A lot of high quality extensions available. Very simple and quick. A lot of customisation if you want. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Atom is a text editor that provides an all in one solution to all the absolute basic needs today's modern world expects in a notepad replacement. Sleek UI, extensible, cross-platform, and, actively developed, Atom is the defacto choice for the vast majority when wanting to replace notepad/NotePad++ with an editor that packs a real punch in default capabilities and usefulness. Guest • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree It's easy to use, predictable, and very extensible. Smarter than VS Code, easier than Notepad++. VenHayz • Jul 2017 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Cross-platform, modern, fast, great UI, great UX, extensible, fast community-driven development, stable... cblock • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Customizable Package Control ... Community based GIT support Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy Fuzzy Finder GitHub integration Gitlab integration Hackable Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Minimap Modular System Multiple cursors Support for Multiple programming languages Distraction-free UI Package Manager Plugin API Plugin manager Real time collaboration Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Unit Testing Add a feature 885 Like
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... Vim is a console app and require to know its commands to use it, while Notepad++ is UI driven, anyone can use it. Guest • Mar 2015 • 36 agrees and 23 disagrees Disagree Agree Serves same purpose, similar features, different approach, multiplatform, ubiquitous. marcinkowalski • Mar 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree I like to use the vim command line version on windows it feels pretty minimalistic and its appearance gives the impression it goes right to the job of editing text Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree Agree vim is a console app and relies on a special keyboard command syntax which users need to learn and know. It is already a joke that people do not manage to remember how to quit vi(m) not to mention all the other things people might not remember about the commands. superluminar • Jul 2018 Disagree Agree Fastest in use. You can improve your productivity and performance when writing. Guest • Jan 2017 • 4 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Lightweight, configurable, and fast. Has a lot of options, but all of them are very intuitive. Guest • Oct 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Batch Editing ... Configurable Dedication to home row Keyboard focused Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature 1044 Like
Geany 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... Geany in functionality and interface is very similar to Notepad++ Guest • Feb 2016 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Simple, lightweight. But there're syntax highlighting and code completion. jovin • Feb 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free, lightweight, multi platform, open source, customizable. What more do you want? Resdek • Aug 2017 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce Lightweight Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File ... Minimalistic Portable Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 461 Like
Brackets Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is... Stop making text editors in Electron. It's gross. Guest • Feb 2018 • 40 agrees and 18 disagrees Disagree Agree because i like the UI more than notepad++ Guest • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree it's easy to use and is open source so a definite runner-up to notpad++ Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It has an auto complete feature which makes it better than Notepad++ techcrank • May 2017 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Autocompletion Live Preview Built-in Level Editor Easy to switch encoding ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple languages Streamlined interface Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 377 Like
Eclipse Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software... It is an entire IDE, not a text editor tool. Guest • Jan 2018 • 40 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Notepad++ is (relatively) light and programming agnostic with lots of text manipulation tools. Eclipse is none of these things. Guest • Jun 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Autocompletion Collaborative Workspaces Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Java IDE ... Lossless quality Refactoring SCM Integration Add a feature 1025 Like
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... Gedit can't fold code, can't make ident lines, and the ident is strange! Guest • Jul 2016 • 10 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree no sorting and don't reconize regular expression when 'replace' or search rmpbklyn • Sep 2015 • 8 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Some essential plugins missing especially around code formatting tools Guest • Mar 2017 • 5 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD GNOME ... OpenSolaris Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 625 Like
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 200 Like
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... Emacs is the be-all-end-all text editor. It takes a while to learn, but its code and text editing commands are extremely powerful. There's also a package manager for things like auto completion, automatic running, and more language support. Guest • Jan 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature 287 Like
Coda Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And a dash of SSH too. ... Commercial Mac iPhone iPad Built-in File Manager Live css editing Real time collaboration Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 275 Like
Komodo Edit Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 211 Like
Bluefish Editor Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PHP IDE Support for SFTP Add a feature 137 Like
UltraEdit 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 146 Like
TextMate TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both... Commercial $ $ $ Open Source Mac Automatic Indentation Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Search and replace Syntax Highlighting ... Support for Themes Add a feature 248 Like
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 41 Like
