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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free, open-source text editor developed by Don Ho for Windows. It is designed for programmers and web developers, and is widely used in software development. It features syntax highlighting for many languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and PHP. It also ...

Atom

Atom is an open-source, hackable text editor developed by the team at GitHub. It is designed to be a modern, extensible, and hackable text editor for developers, allowing them to customize the editor to suit their needs. Atom comes with a built-in package manager, making it easy ...

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It includes support for debugging, built-in Git control, syntax highlighting, snippets, code refactoring, and code completion. It is a lightweight but powerful source code editor that...

Like CotEditor, VSCode is very lightweight and ideal for quickly editing a single file while offering solid syntax formatting and highlighting actions, such as "beautifying" JSON.

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a powerful, feature-rich code editor used by professional developers around the world. It is an advanced code editor, with an easy to use interface and the ability to quickly switch between projects. It is suitable for a variety of programming languages, such as H...

Vim

Vim is a highly configurable text editor for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, based on the Vi editor from the 1970s. Vim contains many features that make it an ideal development software for programmers and developers. It offers syntax highlighting and code completion, as well as a bui...

Eclipse

Eclipse is an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) used for software development, including application development, web development and embedded systems development. It is written in Java and runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Sola...

gedit

Gedit is a text-editor application developed for the GNOME desktop environment and compatible with Linux, Windows, and macOS operating systems. It is a lightweight, open-source program used to create and edit text files, HTML and other programming language codes, and configuratio...

Geany

Geany is an open-source, cross-platform text editor and IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It is designed to provide an easy-to-use interface for development requirements such as editing source code, compiling and debugging code, running external programs, and managing pro...

GNU nano

GNU nano is a text editor designed to be user-friendly and easy to use. It is part of the GNU Project, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is designed to be a lightweight and simple text editor, so it can be used on computers with limited memo...

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible and customizable text editor, which is widely used for programming, web development, and other computer-related tasks. It is a free and open source software and has a wide range of features, making it a powerful development environment. Emacs is equippe...

Kate

Kate is a powerful development software and applications platform that enables developers to create powerful, visually stunning and feature-rich applications. It offers a powerful and easy-to-use graphical user interface that allows developers to create and manage projects, as we...

Komodo Edit

Komodo Edit is a free, open source and cross-platform text editor for programming and web development. It has a modern user interface and supports the most popular languages, such as Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Perl, and Ruby. It also offers code folding, syntax highlight...

Qt Creator

Qt Creator is an open source, cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) designed to create applications with the Qt application framework. It is designed to be very easy to use, with intuitive user interfaces and powerful development tools. Qt Creator has powerful c...

Notepad2

Notepad2 is a free, open-source text editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Florian Balmer. It is designed to be a small, fast and powerful text editor for Windows. It has an intuitive user interface and supports syntax highlighting for multiple languages. Notepad2 supports ma...

Discontinued The program is no longer updated. The latest version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can still be downloaded from the official website.

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PSPad

PSPad is a powerful and feature-packed freeware text editor for Windows. It is mainly used by software developers for writing and editing source code. PSPad includes syntax highlighting for many programming languages, code templates, an integrated FTP client, macros support, spel...

TextMate

TextMate is a powerful development tool for Mac OS X, designed to make programming easier and more efficient. It was designed to be a light-weight, yet powerful, text editor with many features that make coding easier and faster. TextMate is the ideal software for professional pro...

UltraEdit

UltraEdit is a powerful and feature-rich text, HTML and hex editor for Windows. It is used by software developers and IT professionals to edit source code and other text-based files as well as binary data. It also functions as a basic web development tool, with syntax highlightin...

Notepad2-mod

Notepad2-mod is an open source, fast, and lightweight text editor for Windows operating systems. It is a modified version of the popular Notepad2 editor, which adds a range of features to improve the user experience. Notepad2-mod supports syntax highlighting of various programmin...

Notepad

Notepad is a text editor that is included with Microsoft Windows and is available for free download from the Windows Store. It is a basic editor that allows users to create and edit plain text files. It supports various text-editing features such as font formatting, search and re...

SciTE

SciTE is a free source code editor and text editor for Windows, Linux, and OS X. It is designed to be a powerful, yet lightweight and fast, editing environment for programmers, developers, and anyone else who needs an efficient text editor. It supports syntax highlighting for a w...

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