A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron
Xed Alternatives
Xed is described as 'A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Xed for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Xed alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xed are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
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209 Notepad3 alternativesNotepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more.
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160 TextMate alternativesTextMate 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.
193 CudaText alternativesCudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Haiku
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142 Windows Notepad alternativesFast, streamlined editor with extensive features, bundled with Windows since 1985. Supports plain text, UTF-8, and over 100 languages with enhanced functionality since 2018, including dark mode, Bing search, and large file handling.
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210 Bluefish Editor alternativesBluefish 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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Haiku
169 PSPad alternativesPSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.
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52 Athas alternativesLightweight, open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux featuring Vim keybindings, built-in Git support, agentic AI editing with multiple models, syntax highlighting, LSP for intelligent completion, fast performance, and efficient workflows.
208 UltraEdit alternativesUltraEdit 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 disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).
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- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Xed.
- UltraEdit is Paid and Proprietary
154 SciTE alternativesSciTE 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 programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...
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