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 Syntax Highlighting Configurability ... Dedication to home row Keyboard focused Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Plugin manager Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs Add a feature

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

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GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku
Command line interface Automatic Indentation Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature

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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 OS X Windows Linux BSD
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature

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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

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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 Lightweight Portable Add a feature

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 OS X
macOS-like Colored Text File Versioning Add a feature

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XML Copy Editor

XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor. * DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation * XSLT * XPath * Pretty-printing * Syntax...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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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 OS X Windows Linux Node.JS
Command line interface Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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- 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.
Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large...

Free Open Source Haiku
Support for FTP Search and replace Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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