Notepad++ Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Autocompletion Block edit Code formatting ... Color coding Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Live Preview Macros Feature Multiple languages Plugin manager Portable Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Tabbed interface Add a feature 4122 Like
Visual Studio Code Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE. Free Open Source Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Mac OS X Lightweight Built-in Terminal Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable ... Intellisense Syntax Highlighting Code completion Dark theme GIT support Support for Javascript Multiple cursors Autocompletion Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration MarkDown support Mercurial support Plugin support Version and Source control Add a feature 406 Like
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 OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Configurability ... Keyboard focused Lightweight Modal editor Plugin manager Small size Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs Add a feature 1029 Like
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 OS X Windows Linux BSD GNOME ... OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 620 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... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Portable Small size Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 281 Like Discontinued The program is no longer updated.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.
Notepad Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows. Free Windows Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows Add a feature 152 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 OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 144 Like
TextWrangler TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing... Free Mac OS X Search and replace Support for Unicode Add a feature 145 Like Discontinued The developers announced that development of TextWrangler has stopped, in favor of concentrating their efforts on the development of BBEdit. Quoted from the TextWrangler webpage, "We are sunsetting TextWrangler, and we encourage anyone interested in TextWrangler to download and use BBEdit instead."
Notepad2-mod A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Bookmarks Feature Portable Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature 39 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 OS X Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature 36 Like
EmEditor EmEditor is a fast Unicode text editor for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting large files, scriptable macros, CSV files, keyword highlighting and more. Commercial Windows Import CSV data Windows Explorer integration Support for Large File Support for Unicode Add a feature 61 Like
Programmer's Notepad Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in... Free Open Source Windows Syntax Highlighting Multiple languages Portable Support for regular expressions ... Search and replace Tabbed interface Add a feature 54 Like
EditPad Lite EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small & compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. It is a step... Free Personal Windows Support for Large File Minimalistic Multiple languages Portable Add a feature 39 Like
SynWrite SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. SynWrite features: syntax highlighting for lots of languages;... Free Open Source Windows Total Commander Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 28 Like
Scratch Scratch is the text editor that works for you. It auto-saves your files, meaning they're always up-to-date. Plus it remembers your tabs so you never lose your spot... Free Open Source Linux Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Scripting Syntax Highlighting ... Tabbed interface Add a feature 17 Like
