BowPad Alternatives

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Features:

• Lightweight
• Code formatting
• Tabbed interface
• Custom Language Definitions
• Customer support
• Support for Javascript
• Macros
• Portable
• Auto-saving
• Autocompletion
• Block edit
• Built-in editor
• Color coding
• Column edit mode
• Configurable
• Debugger
• Developer Tools
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Support for FTP
• Integrated Search
• Live Preview
• Multiple languages
• Multiple Open Tabs
• Native GUI
• Plugin manager
• Support for regular expressions
• Side-by-Side comparison

Atom

Extensible, cross-platform text editor with a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes.

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Customizable
• Support for Themes
• Community based
• Package Control
• GIT support
• Teletype
• GitHub integration
• Hackable
• Syntax Highlighting
• Autocompletion
• Clean design
• Code completion
• Collaborative writing
• Electron based
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Folder Hierarchy
• Fuzzy Finder
• Gitlab integration
• Interior Design
• Live collaboration
• Minimap
• Modular System
• Multiple languages
• Multiple cursors
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• Distraction-free UI
• Package Manager
• Plugin API
• Plugin manager
• Real time collaboration
• Separated workspaces
• Support for NodeJS
• Tabbed interface
• Unit Testing

gedit

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Autocompletion
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Spell checking
• Syntax Highlighting

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...

Features:

• Better syntax highlighting support
• Debian package compatible
• FOSS
• IDE
• Lightweight
• Multiplatform
• Shell integration
• Support for Themes
• Automatic Indentation
• Built-in Terminal
• Code navigation
• Customizable
• Support for Large File
• Minimalistic
• Portable
• Shortcut keys
• Spell checking
• Syntax Highlighting
• Vim plugin

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...

Features:

• Command line interface
• Automatic Indentation
• Search and replace
• Terminal-based

Komodo Edit

Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother...

Kate

The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and...

Features:

• Editable text color schemes
• Native application
• Built-in Terminal
• Built-in themes
• Code formatting
• File management
• MarkDown support
• Notetaking
• Support for regular expressions
• Syntax Highlighting
• Tabbed interface
• Themes

Bluefish Editor

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many...

Features:

• PHP IDE
• Support for SFTP
• Web Development