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    TextMate Alternatives

    TextMate is described as 'brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike' and is a very popular Text Editor in the Development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to TextMate for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Chrome OS. Most alternatives are Text and Code Editors. The best alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like TextMate are Notepad++ (Free, Open Source), Sublime Text (Free Personal), Atom (Free Personal, Open Source) and Vim (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated May 11, 2022
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    TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings...
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    1. Visual Studio Code is more than just a code editor, it provides the tools and extensions to compile, debug, compare, refactor, and even manage code repositories all within a highly-customised development environment.
    2. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
      Almost everyone thinks Notepad++ is a great alternative to TextMate.
    4. 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.
      Sublime Text vs TextMate opinions
      Almost everyone thinks Sublime Text is a great alternative to TextMate.
      Sublime is a good alternative because you can still code like wow
      Positive comment • over 1 year ago

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      It support multi language and with a lot of feature with ton of package, it lightweight and fast
      Positive comment • over 3 years ago

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    5. Atom is an open-source, Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.
      Most users think Atom is a great alternative to TextMate.
    6. 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.
    8. This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Code - OSS (vscode) project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.
    9. Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle.
      Eclipse vs TextMate opinions
      pros, cons and recent comments
      TextMate is a text editor while Eclipse is an IDE for developers.
      Negative comment • almost 6 years ago

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      One is an IDE, the other is text editor.
      Negative comment • over 5 years ago

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    10. 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.
    11. 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.
    12. 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:
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