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 Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Live Preview Macros Feature Multiple languages Plugin manager Portable Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Tabbed interface Add a feature 4122 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 Lightweight Built-in Terminal Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable ... Intellisense Syntax Highlighting Code completion Dark theme GIT support Support for Javascript Multiple cursors Autocompletion Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration MarkDown support Mercurial support Plugin support Version and Source control Add a feature 407 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 Small size Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs Add a feature 1029 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 620 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 446 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 192 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 208 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 Small size Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 281 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.
Notepad Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows. Free Windows Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows Add a feature 152 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 OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 144 Like
PSPad PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code... Free Windows Syntax Highlighting Lightweight Portable Add a feature 191 Like
SciTE 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce No features added Add a feature 133 Like
AkelPad A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages. Features * Single window (SDI)... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Portable Add a feature 78 Like
Notepad2-mod A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Bookmarks Feature Portable Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature 39 Like
jEdit jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 107 Like
