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There are many alternatives to Sublime Text for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux Text Editor alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Sublime Text and loads of them are Text Editors available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux Text Editor alternatives to Sublime Text are Vim, VSCodium, Geany and Kate.

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Sublime Text

1999

Text Editor
Paid • Proprietary

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

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Sublime Text alternatives page was last updated May 21, 2022

Lite
lite is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.
6 Lite alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Lite Features
Lightweight
Text editing
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Discontinued
No updates after Jan 9, 2021.

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Vis
Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...
155 Vis alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Vis Features
Console-based
Support for regular expressions
Modal editor
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TEA
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.
65 TEA alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- IDE
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
TEA Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
2. C++
3. Tabbed interface
4. Built-in File Manager
5. Built-in Image converter
6. Built-in Image viewer
7. Built-in archiver
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Nota (Maui Applications)
Nota is a convergent text editor. Nota is easy to use, with a simple interface by default. Nota supports syntax highlighting for various languages, focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, colors, a integrated side panel and more.
120 Nota (Maui Applications) alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Linux
Nota (Maui Applications) Features
Syntax Highlighting
Lightweight
Minimalistic
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Notepas
Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.
115 Notepas alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Notepas Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
2. Portable
3. Search and Replace
4. Support for Unicode
5. GPLv3
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Discontinued
Cannot run on macOS Monterey and the last update is from 2016.

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Vy
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.
171 Vy alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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Howl
Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.
153 Howl alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Howl Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
2. Lightweight
3. Minimalistic
4. Customizable
5. Keyboard focused
6. Programmable
7. Keyboard Shortcuts
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Discontinued
The last version (0.6) is from April 2019.

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