XML Notepad Alternatives for Linux

XML Notepad is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Vim, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to XML Notepad and 17 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to XML Notepad are Geany, GNU Emacs, CudaText and UltraEdit.

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  1. Vim icon

    Vim

     1353 likes

    Advanced text editor with syntax highlighting, word completion, multiple editing modes for efficiency, plugin and script extensibility, GUI and command-line operation, a thorough help system, and cross-platform support across various operating systems.

    217 Vim alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
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    Vim vs XML Notepad Comments
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    VIm is a powerful editor, but isn't able to provide a tree view of a XML file

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
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    Vim is a general purpose tool.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Vim is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • Vim is Lightweight and CustomizableXML Notepad is not according to our users
  2. Geany icon

    Geany

     579 likes

    Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.

    155 Geany alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
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    Geany vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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    Geany is an entire IDE, not a XML editor with tree view

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Geany is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • Geany is Lightweight, Minimalistic, Customizable and Privacy focusedXML Notepad is not according to our users
  4. GNU Emacs icon

    GNU Emacs

     387 likes

    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 to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    184 GNU Emacs alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
     
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    GNU Emacs vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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    Same as VIM, Emacs is a powerful editor, but isn't able to provide a tree view of a XML file

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is Customizable, Privacy focused and LightweightXML Notepad is not according to our users
  5. CudaText icon

    CudaText

     56 likes

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

    195 CudaText alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    Multi-selections, Replace dialog at bottom
     
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    CudaText vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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    It's a general purpose text editor. While it can display XML text, it isn't a feature rich editor with a tree view.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • CudaText is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • CudaText is Lightweight, Customizable and Privacy focusedXML Notepad is not according to our users
  6. UltraEdit icon

    UltraEdit

     161 likes

    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 disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    211 UltraEdit alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    UltraEdit features an integrated FTP browser and supports syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages, with more always in the works. And with an integrated SSH/telnet client, scripting, custom tools, macros and Smart Templates, UltraEdit's ready for any coding session.
     
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    UltraEdit vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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    It's a general purpose text editor. While it can display XML text, it isn't a feature rich editor with a tree view.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryXML Notepad is Free and Open Source
  7. ReText icon

    ReText

     49 likes

    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    ReText vs XML Notepad Comments
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    It's a general purpose text editor. While it can display XML text, it isn't a feature rich editor with a tree view.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • ReText is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • ReText is LightweightXML Notepad is not according to our users
  9. TreeLine icon

    TreeLine

     24 likes

    TreeLine just stores almost any kind of information. A tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. And each node in the tree can contain several fields, forming a mini-database. The output format for each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. XML Copy Editor icon

    XML Copy Editor

     29 likes

    XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor.

    • DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation
    • XSLT
    • XPath
    • Pretty-printing
    • Syntax highlighting
    • Folding
    • Tag completion
    • Tag locking
    • Tag-free editing
    • Spelling and style check .
    23 XML Copy Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Oxygen XML Editor icon

    Oxygen XML Editor

     20 likes

    Oxygen XML Editor is a cross platform XML Editor providing tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XSL, XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, SOAP and WSDL.

    29 Oxygen XML Editor alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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  12. EditiX icon

    EditiX

     2 likes

    EditiX is a powerful and easy to use XML editor, Visual Schema Editor, XQuery Editor and XSLT debugger for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X designed to help web authors and application programmers take advantage of the latest XML and XML-related technologies such as XSLT / FO...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. Enki icon

    Enki

     11 likes

    Enki is a text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as quickly as possible. Without mouse. -Lighweight. Some IDEs show splashscreen. enki will never do it. It just sta.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  14. Vy icon

    Vy

     2 likes

    vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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