978 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO 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 Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature
423 Like Geany Good alternative? YES NO 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 Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
171 Like GNU nano Good alternative? YES NO 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 Linux BSD Haiku Automatic Indentation Command line interface Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature
265 Like GNU Emacs Good alternative? YES NO 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
189 Like PSPad Good alternative? YES NO 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 Add a feature
138 Like UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO 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
33 Like Notepad2-mod Good alternative? YES NO A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature
34 Like ReText Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
26 Like SynWrite Good alternative? YES NO 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 Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
19 Like slap Good alternative? YES NO 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 Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
16 Like Scratch Good alternative? YES NO 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
17 Like CotEditor Good alternative? YES NO 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 Colored Text File Versioning macOS-like Add a feature
19 Like Editra Good alternative? YES NO 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 Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
24 Like XML Copy Editor Good alternative? YES NO 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
14 Like Altova XMLSpy Good alternative? YES NO 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
