Alternatives to skEdit for all platforms with any license

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Notepad++ Good alternative? YES NO

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

Lightweight Block edit Code formatting Color coding Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Tabbed interface Add a feature
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Vim Good alternative? YES NO

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 Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature
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Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO

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 Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Built-in Terminal Customizable Intellisense Code completion Dark theme ... Lightweight Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration GIT support MarkDown support Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Version and Source control Add a feature
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gedit Good alternative? YES NO

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 Windows Linux BSD GNOME OpenSolaris

Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
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GNU nano Good alternative? YES NO

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 Linux BSD Haiku

Automatic Indentation Command line interface Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature
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Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO

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
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Aptana Studio Alternative? YES NO

Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help...
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Support for FTP Real time collaboration Add a feature
- Discontinued Aptana is still in development on GitHub but latest version, 3.6.1, was released in October 2014. It lacks Java 8/9 features, as well as newer Javascript and HTML 5 features.
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Notepad2 Good alternative? YES NO

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

Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
- 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.
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TextMate Good alternative? YES NO

TextMate is not an IDE but by using its powerful snippets, macros, and unique scoping system, it can often provide features that even a language specific IDE lacks. It...

Commercial $ $ $ Open Source Mac

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Support for Themes Add a feature
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Coda Good alternative? YES NO

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 Real time collaboration Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
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PSPad Good alternative? YES NO

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 Add a feature
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Notepad Good alternative? YES NO

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
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SciTE Good alternative? YES NO

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
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UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO

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
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AkelPad Good alternative? YES NO

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

No features added Add a feature