Programmer's Notepad Alternatives

    Programmer's Notepad is described as 'Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes' and is a popular app in the Development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Programmer's Notepad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and PortableApps.com. The best alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Programmer's Notepad are Vim (Free, Open Source), Eclipse (Free, Open Source), Geany (Free, Open Source) and VSCodium (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Jun 2, 2021
    1. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
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    2. 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 GUI version called GVim.
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    4. Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle.
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    5. 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 packages.
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    6. This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's VSCode.
    8. 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 plugins.
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    9. 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 number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.
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    10. Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple developers. Enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source.
    11. Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment which is part of the SDK for the Qt Framework.
    12. Bluefish 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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