Textadept Alternatives

Textadept is described as '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 ideal editor for programmers who want endless' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Textadept for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Textadept alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Textadept are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.

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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...

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Textadept alternatives page was last updated May 23, 2024
  1. Scribes icon
     24 likes

    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

    Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

    The res.

    113 Scribes alternatives
    Scribes simple and sleek (startup)

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Scribes Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Gtk
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2011.

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  2. Diakonos icon
     4 likes

    Diakonos is a powerful and easy to use console-based text editor.

    151 Diakonos alternatives
    Diakonos screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Diakonos Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Console-based
    Diakonos iconTextadept Icon

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  3. Text icon
     11 likes

    Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.

    100 Text alternatives
    Text screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome

    Properties

    1.  Works Offline

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Google Drive integration
    3.  Sync with Dropbox
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  4. medit icon
     17 likes

    medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.

    Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

    54 medit alternatives
    medit screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce

    medit Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Tabbed interface
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    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
    Vis screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Vis Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Modal editor
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  6. BowPad icon
     10 likes

    BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

    105 BowPad alternatives
    BowPad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    BowPad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Ribbon Interface
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  7. Notepas icon
     9 likes

    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
    Notepas screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Notepas Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for Unicode
    5.  GPLv3
    Discontinued

    Cannot run on macOS Monterey and the last update is from 2016.

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  8. Nota (Maui Applications) icon
     2 likes

    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
    Nota (Maui Applications) screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
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  9. Chocolat icon
     12 likes

    Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

    65 Chocolat alternatives
    Text Editing

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Chocolat Features

    1.  Coding
    2.  Multiple Cursors
    3.  Split windows
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  10. Vy icon
     2 likes

    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
    Vy screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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  11. Howl icon
     6 likes

    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
    Howl screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Programmable
    3.  Keyboard Shortcuts
    Discontinued

    The last version (0.6) is from April 2019.

    Howl iconTextadept Icon

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    Comments about Howl as an Alternative to Textadept
     
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    Howl starts very quickly. Minimalistic interface and keyboard driven.

    Positive commentJun 7, 2020
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    • Howl is Free and Open SourceTextadept is also Free and Open Source
    • Howl is LightweightTextadept is not according to our users
  12. Sakura editor icon
     1 like

    Is a Japanese text editor for MS Windows. An alternative to Notepad++

    22 Sakura editor alternatives
    Sakura editor screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  No Tracking

    Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  No Coding Required
    Sakura editor iconTextadept Icon

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