Alternatives to XML Notepad for all platforms with any license

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 Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Keyboard focused Lightweight ... Syntax Highlighting Batch Editing Configurable Dedication to home row Support for Large File Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature

1095 Like
Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce
Lightweight Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File ... Minimalistic Portable Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

481 Like
GNU Emacs

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature

302 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 Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

148 Like
PSPad

PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code...

Free Windows
Syntax Highlighting ASCII to Hex Edit files without creating a project Lightweight ... Portable Add a feature

195 Like
Notepad2-mod

A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Portable Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature

48 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 Windows Linux BSD
Live Preview Syntax formatting Feature Add a feature

38 Like
CotEditor

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings. Scriptable:...

Free Open Source Mac
macOS-like Colored Text File Versioning Add a feature

25 Like
slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier. It has: * first-class mouse support * GUI editor-like...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Node.JS
Command line interface Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

22 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
XML Copy Editor

XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor. * DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation * XSLT * XPath * Pretty-printing * Syntax...
- Discontinued Discontinued in 2014.
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

27 Like
Editra

Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it...
- Discontinued The latest version available for download from the website is nearly 5 years old, from 2013. The last sign of activity on the blog ( a blog post ) is from 2015.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

21 Like
CudaText

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. Features include: Syntax highlight for many languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, JavaScript, HTML, CSS...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Command palette Add a feature

8 Like
Altova XMLSpy

Altova XMLSpy is the industry's best-selling XML editor and development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies. It...

Commercial Windows
No features added Add a feature

15 Like
GetDiz

GetDiz is a fully featured text editor which can replace Notepad while maintaining an incredible speed, ease of use and small size. You can display and edit any text...

Free Windows
Portable Add a feature

14 Like