Fast, streamlined editor with extensive features, bundled with Windows since 1985. Supports plain text, UTF-8, and over 100 languages with enhanced functionality since 2018, including dark mode, Bing search, and large file handling.
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Syntaxic Alternatives
Syntaxic is described as 'Cross-platform, keyboard-friendly text editor' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Syntaxic for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Syntaxic alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Syntaxic are Sublime Text, Vim, Eclipse and Kate.
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- 143 Windows Notepad alternatives
212 Bluefish Editor alternativesBluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
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- Flathub
- Haiku
210 UltraEdit alternativesUltraEdit 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 disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).
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- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
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UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Syntaxic.
- UltraEdit is Paid and Proprietary
156 SciTE alternativesSciTE 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...
159 Xed alternativesA text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.
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89 Light Table alternativesLight Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
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- Electron / Atom Shell
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jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...
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Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.
Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
99 TextEdit alternativesWhen you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and even add music and movie files.
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152 BabelPad alternativesBabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.
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