Alternatives to TextEdit for Windows with any license

Sublime Text

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. ...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Package Control Multiple cursors ... Customizable Syntax Highlighting Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Directory structure Fullscreen support Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Open Source apps Plugin API Plugins Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Simple text editor Syntax Highlighting Text editing Auto-Refresh Add a feature

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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 Lightweight Syntax Highlighting ... Keyboard focused Open source software Plugins Batch Editing Built-in terminal emulation Command line Command line interface Configurable Dedication to home row For geek Hackable Support for Large File Lightweight MarkDown support Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Native application Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Vim Buffers Vim folding Visual Mode Well documented Word completion Add a feature

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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 Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD ... GNOME OpenSolaris
Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

648 Like
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

222 Like
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 Windows Linux
Macros Add a feature

218 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...
- 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.
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

287 Like
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 Windows Linux
Support for FTP Real time collaboration Add a feature

327 Like
Notepad

Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.
- Notepad lacks rich text editing Guest • Aug 2019
Free Windows
Lightweight Minimalistic Simple text editor Support for Unicode ... Bundled with Windows Add a feature

162 Like
UltraEdit

UltraEdit 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...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Column based text editing Hex Editor Add a feature

151 Like
PSPad

PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code...

Free Windows
Syntax Highlighting ASCII to Hex Edit files without creating a project Hex Editor ... Lightweight Portable Add a feature

197 Like
SciTE

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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
No features added Add a feature

137 Like
jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Java Add a feature

108 Like
EmEditor

EmEditor is a fast Unicode 64bit text editor for Windows 10/7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting extremely large files (up to 248 GB), binary files, comparison, multiline editing...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Import CSV data Windows Explorer integration Support for Large File Macros ... Support for Unicode Add a feature

67 Like
ReText

ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview. It is written in Python using Qt...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Live Preview Add a feature

39 Like
WordPad

WordPad is a simple word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. It is the successor of Windows 3.1s Write....

Commercial Windows
Text editing Add a feature

44 Like