Programmer's Notepad Alternatives

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   NoteTab

    20 likes

   NoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Windows Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Text Editor

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • Switzerland

   

   

   

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   Acme

    4 likes

   Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Text Editor

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

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   ConTEXT

    10 likes

   ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   EmEditor

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   Vy

    2 likes

   vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   ad

    1 like

   ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Code Editor
   • Text Editor

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

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   Ardos

    2 likes

   Discover Erdos, the secure AI-native IDE that pairs Jupyter notebooks with an embedded assistant to edit code, surface documentation, and accelerate analysis.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • IDE

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Windows
   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

   

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    TEA

     7 likes

    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

    62 TEA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Text Editor
    • IDE

    Origin

    • Russia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Russia

    

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    Jane

     8 likes

    Jane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

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    DevTEd Lite

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    DevTEd Lite is a free source code editor that supports several languages. System requirements: MS WIndows 10 or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Text Editor
    • Code Editor

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    HAPedit

     1 like

    HAPedit is an acronym for Html Asp Php editor; a win32 text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages.

    121 HAPedit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    TED Notepad

     17 likes

    Replace notepad with free Unicode notepad replacement, rich in innovative features, text-processing functions, tools and hot-keys.

    95 TED Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

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    Buffer Text Editor

     1 like

    Celebrating transience, Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don't need keeping. Designed for keyboard workflows on desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub

    

    

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