Open Source Sublime Text Alternatives for BSD

Sublime Text is not available for BSD but there are plenty of alternatives with similar functionality. The best open source BSD alternative is Vim. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Sublime Text and many of them are open source and available for BSD so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source BSD alternatives to Sublime Text are Geany, Kate, GNU Emacs and gedit.

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  1. Vim icon

    Vim

     1345 likes

    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.

    215 Vim alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    Comments about Vim as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    Ron Bowman
    Positive
    6

    Much more options than any other editor. While this is great for the experienced user, novice users could easily get confused.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    terminal-based, open-source, very fast, extensible, text editor and by that I mean it is not intended as an IDE while other recommendations mostly are, can confuse new users, but overall it is very awesome if you can get used to it.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Vim icon
    Vim icon
    • Vim is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Geany icon

    Geany

     575 likes

    Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.

    154 Geany alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
    Geany screenshot 1
     
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    Comments about Geany as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    its support many programming language and so easy to compile,build,and run..!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    LucasVieites
    Positive
    1

    For users who come from a Linux environment this is a perfect editor to keep using on MacOS X

    Geany icon
    Geany icon
    • Geany is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Geany is Minimalistic and Privacy focusedSublime Text is not according to our users
  4. Kate icon

    Kate

     312 likes

    The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application.

    146 Kate alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    Comments about Kate as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    Paul
    Positive
    0

    Really good code editor, especially if you're using Linux and KDE.

    Ron Bowman
    Positive
    1

    Kate is among the best text editors, especially when working on multiple documents simultaneously.

    Kate icon
    Kate icon
    • Kate is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. GNU Emacs icon

    GNU Emacs

     387 likes

    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 to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    181 GNU Emacs alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
     
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    Comments about GNU Emacs as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    au
    Positive
    1

    More powerful and extensible plugins.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    GNU Emacs icon
    GNU Emacs icon
    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
    • GNU Emacs is Privacy focusedSublime Text is not according to our users
  6. gedit icon

    gedit

     694 likes

    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.

    193 gedit alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • GNOME
    • OpenSolaris
    • Flathub
    The Default look under GNOME with Adwaita
     
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    Comments about gedit as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Pales in comparison feature-wise and performance-wise.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    gedit icon
    • gedit is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
    • gedit is Privacy focusedSublime Text is not according to our users
  7. GNU nano icon

    GNU nano

     290 likes

    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.

    153 GNU nano alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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    Comments about GNU nano as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    Guest
    Negative
    10

    Functionally-wise, Nano would be GNU counterpart of notepad.exe, nowhere near functionality of Sublime Text.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    vfrico
    Negative
    1

    It is command line based, and does not have any kind of plugins or themes.

    Guest
    Negative
    -6

    It's barely replacement of MS-DOS Wordstar from 80's...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    GNU nano icon
    GNU nano icon
    • GNU nano is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. CudaText icon

    CudaText

     54 likes

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    Multi-selections, Replace dialog at bottom
     
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    Comments about CudaText as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    David
    Positive
    2

    CudaText is one of the few alternatives that's close to Sublime Text in speed while also covering the same breadth of core features like built-in minimap, command-palette and extensibility. The key difference is probably just that CudaText doesn't look as refined.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It is fast, like Sublime, low on resources

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    CudaText icon
    CudaText icon
    • CudaText is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
    • CudaText is Privacy focusedSublime Text is not according to our users
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    SciTE

     150 likes

    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 programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    157 SciTE alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    SciTE screenshot 1
     
  12. Textadept icon

    Textadept

     39 likes

    Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    running in windows 7. (aero disabled)
     
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    Comments about Textadept as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Small and customizable text editor.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Textadept icon
    Textadept icon
    • Textadept is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  13. Mousepad icon

    Mousepad

     35 likes

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    78 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
    Mousepad screenshot 1
     
  14. wxMEdit icon

    wxMEdit

     28 likes

    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

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    wxMEdit screenshot 1
     
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