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TextWrangler Alternatives for Windows

TextWrangler is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to TextWrangler and loads of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to TextWrangler are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom and Vim.

TextWrangler alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or IDEs. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of TextWrangler.
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  • Free • Proprietary
  • Mac

TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.

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  1. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

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    Most users think Notepad++ is a great alternative to TextWrangler.

    Full featured, highly extensible and very lightweight

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  2. 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.

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    Most users think Visual Studio Code is a great alternative to TextWrangler.

  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.

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    Most users think Sublime Text is a great alternative to TextWrangler.

  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.

    Discontinued

    Atom will be discontinued at the end of 2022: https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/

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    Most users think Atom is a great alternative to TextWrangler.

    Atom lacks of a file compare feature

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  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.

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    Most users think Vim is a great alternative to TextWrangler.

    It gives syntax highlighting and word completion

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  8. This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

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  9. Neovim is Vim out of the box.

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    Bluefish Editor

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Bluefish 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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  11. CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus.

    Multi-selections, Replace dialog at bottom

  12. Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most programming jobs.

    Supports RTL languages out of the box.
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