Alternatives to SciTE

  • Notepad

    Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.

    Free Windows

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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 explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web …

    Free Windows

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  • TextMate

    TextMate 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. Whether you are a …

    Commercial Open Source Mac

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  • VSCodium

    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's VSCode. Microsoft's downloads of Visual Studio Code are licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contain telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Vi…

    Open Source Free Electron / Atom Shell Linux Mac Windows

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  • jEdit

    jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free so…

    Linux Mac Windows

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  • Notepad3

    Although the Windows operating system was updated significantly over the past years. However, the default Windows Notepad has not been updated in 20 years. If you need a text editor for simple programming tasks, using the vanilla Windows Notepad jus…

    Open Source Free Windows

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  • EmEditor

    EmEditor is a fast Unicode 64bit text editor for Windows 10/7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting extremely large files (up to 248 GB), binary files, comparison, multiline editing, easy numbering, scriptable macros, CSV files, script keyword highlighting and m…

    Freemium Windows

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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: Make your own macro in your favorite language, whether it is Python, Ruby, Perl, PH…

    Open Source Free Mac

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  • Oni

    Coming from Atom/VSCode?Unlike most Electron-based editors, Oni features a high-performance canvas renderer, along with neovim at the core - providing a complete vim experience without emulation. Coming from vim/neovim?Keep your workflow while enjoy…

    Open Source Free Linux Mac Windows

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  • Textadept

    Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for progr…

    Open Source Free BSD Linux Mac Windows

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  • NINJA-IDE

    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create a…

    Open Source Free BSD Linux Mac Windows

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  • Programmer's Notepad

    Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad. * Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes …

    Open Source Free Windows

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  • wxMEdit

    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better Max OS …

    Open Source Free BSD Linux Mac Windows

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  • Caret

    Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS. Caret is a graphical text editor modeled on Sublime Text, running completely offline (no Internet connection required) and capable of opening and saving files anywhere on your hard drive. The goal …

    Free Chrome OS Chrome Web-Based

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  • CudaText

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus.It starts quite fast (0.5 sec with ~30 plugins on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz).It is extensible by Python add-ons (plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools). Features include: Syntax …

    Open Source Free BSD Linux Mac Windows

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  • Mousepad

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.Features:* Complete support for UTF-8 t…

    Open Source Free Xfce BSD Linux

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  • Xed

    Xed is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. Xed is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one wind…

    Linux

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  • Sublime Text

    Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

    Free with limited functionality Linux Mac Windows

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  • Vim

    Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. Vim offers several “modes” for editing with efficiency. This makes vim a non-user-friendly application but …

    Open Source Free OpenSolaris Haiku BSD Linux Mac Windows

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  • Brackets

    Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License. With focused visual tools a…

    Open Source Free Electron / Atom Shell Linux Mac Windows

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