PICO means "very small" and also stands for "PIne COmposer". PICO is designed to be a "simple editor", ie only the bare minimum of commands and simply to use. Very good for beginners who wish to write emails and posts.
Vis Alternatives
Vis is described as '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' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Vis for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Vis alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vis are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
Alternatives list
Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.
Hekapad is a free fully featured lightweight text editor for Windows. It can be used to replace the classic Notepad with some cool features.
MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics.
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It is a comfortable text editor and a Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge!
Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.
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DtPad is a Windows text editor, developed with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and identified by many advanced features, including HTML and XML code management, search in files, search with regular expressions, note mode (light window in foreground), built-in multilanguage support...
Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) library, called ESA, that provides an Emacs-style user interface, rather than the normal CLIM UI.
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55 Batch Text File Editor alternativesBatch-Notepad that can replace, insert, delete, copy, and move text in multiple files in bulk! Perform advanced search and replace operations using RegEx substitutions. Supports multi-line replace, wildcards, match selection, case matching, Unicode!.
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Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 24 configuration that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.
Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Textplorer supports data field coloring in structured files, ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, MAC or user defined character sets, CRLF detection, bookmarks, fast load of large files,...
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