Notepad++ Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Custom Language Definitions Autocompletion Block edit ... Code formatting Color coding Column edit mode Configurable 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 4164 Like I have been using it in windows and have a lot of good experience in editing, counting,regex etc Guest • Feb 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
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 Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Customizable Package Control ... Community based GIT support Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy 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 Package Manager Plugin API Real time collaboration Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Unit Testing Add a feature 874 Like Similar interface and functionality of a code editor, but Atom uses a lot of resources being that it is written in JavaScript. Guest • Feb 2016 • 22 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Atom is very similar in feel and functionality to Sublime Text, but much easier to extend. Even the source code of the editor itself is a breeze to read. Guest • Oct 2016 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree It seems that Atom is better supported by developers and community. It receives updates faster. WestFlame • Dec 2016 • 6 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree Being both features packed and stylistic, Atom provides many aspects to make your coding experience more enjoyable. Guest • Aug 2017 Disagree Agree it's free but the look and the feature are similiar to sublime text DaffaMumtaz • Feb 2018 Disagree Agree
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 442 Like Open source, lots of out of the box features and also extensions. Guest • Oct 2016 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's fast, slick and currently developed and improved at impressive speed. Guest • Oct 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree - free - has a good handset of features for frontend web development without installing additional packages - great javascript es6 features and module detection - very good settings profile customization - easy to sync / export settings profile - low on resource consumption Guest • May 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Despite its "relatively" slow startup time, Code is a great jack of all trades tool, that is not only clean and practical but also open source. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree -Free -Very good performance -Good to a lot of things Guest • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Superb functionality out of the box, with great git integration and easy learning curve. Free!! samajoseph • May 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree This is my favorite code editor. It is open source and portable, you can get a portable version that will fit onto a flash drive if you want. It is just as configurable as Sublime Text and has a large community producing great plugins. it has GIT support built in and excellent support for Javascript, HTML, CSS, and Python, and others of course. It has an integrated debugging system. kholdstayr • Jul 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Visual Studio Code is a delight to use. It's a free editor that includes syntax highlighting for many text formats and programming languages. It has a rich set of plugins. Bug fixes and new features are added at least once a month. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
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 Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Batch Editing ... Configurability Dedication to home row Keyboard focused Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Plugin manager Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs Add a feature 1038 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 Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Autocompletion Live Preview Built-in Level Editor Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Multiple languages Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 373 Like Live preview is built directly into the program. No additional setup. Plugin manager enables Emmets and other plugins to be installed completely GUI. Guest • May 2016 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
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 Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 624 Like Pales in comparison feature-wise and performance-wise. Guest • Jan 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
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 456 Like For users who come from a Linux environment this is a perfect editor to keep using on MacOS X LucasVieites • Nov 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree its support many programming language and so easy to compile,build,and run..! Guest • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
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 198 Like Functionally-wise, Nano would be GNU counterpart of notepad.exe, nowhere near functionality of Sublime Text. Guest • Nov 2015 • 9 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree It is command line based, and does not have any kind of plugins or themes. vfrico • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree It's barely replacement of MS-DOS Wordstar from 80's... Guest • Jun 2017 • 0 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
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 285 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 177 Like
PhpStorm Enjoy productive PHP and web development with PhpStorm. Take advantage of deep code understanding, top-notch coding assistance, and support for all major tools and... Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Code completion PHP IDE Refactoring Live Preview ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 214 Like PHP Storm is a full pledge IDE not comparable to Sublime Text editor spthaolt • Jul 2016 • 10 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
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
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.
Aptana Studio 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 OS X Windows Linux Support for FTP Real time collaboration Add a feature 326 Like 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.
Neovim Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature 39 Like