Notepad++ Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Autocompletion Block edit Code formatting ... Color coding Configurable Custom Language Definitions Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Portable Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Tabbed interface Add a feature 4133 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable Package Control Support for Themes ... Community based GIT support Autocompletion Code completion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions 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 Plugin API Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Unit Testing Add a feature 857 Like Pluma is the MATE desktop's default, but simple text editor. Atom is far superior in functionality, support for extensions and it's still open source. If Pluma is not enough, Atom has to be: there's nothing better. JohnFastman • Dec 2016 Disagree Agree
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. ... Freemium $ $ $ Mac OS X Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple cursors Package Control ... Customizable Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Optimized for fast boot Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Plugin API Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 1674 Like
Visual Studio Code 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 Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Mac OS X Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Built-in Terminal Customizable ... Intellisense Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Code completion Dark theme GIT support Support for Javascript Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration MarkDown support Mercurial support Minimap Plugin support Version and Source control Add a feature 428 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Configurability ... Keyboard focused Lightweight Modal editor Plugin manager Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs Add a feature 1031 Like
Eclipse Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Autocompletion Java IDE Lossless quality Refactoring ... SCM Integration Add a feature 1014 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Autocompletion Live Preview Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple languages ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 370 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD GNOME ... OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 621 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce Lightweight Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File ... Minimalistic Portable Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 450 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 194 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature 283 Like
Kate 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 175 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 OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 209 Like
Qt Creator Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment which is part of the SDK for the Qt... Commercial $ $ $ Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Autocompletion Refactoring Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 64 Like
Notepad2 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 Lightweight Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 282 Like 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.
