EmEditor Alternatives

Vim

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...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Customizable
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Syntax Highlighting
• Keyboard focused
• Plugins
• Well documented
• Built-in terminal emulation
• Command line interface
• Configurable
• For geek
• Hackable
• MarkDown support
• Batch Editing
• Command line
• Configurable
• Dedication to home row
• Developer Tools
• Support for Large File
• Lightweight
• Mnemonic key bindings
• Modal editor
• Native application
• Plugin manager
• Regex substitution
• Spell checking
• Terminal-based
• Vim Buffers
• Vim folding
• Visual Mode
• Word completion

Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Lightweight
• Built-in Terminal
• Autocompletion
• Intellisense
• Customizable
• Syntax Highlighting
• Code completion
• GIT support
• Plugins
• C++ support
• C# Scripting
• C support
• Graphical interface
• IDE
• Support for Javascript
• MarkDown support
• Multiple cursors
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• Ruby support
• Source code debugging
• Supports loads of file formats
• Supports Python
• Bugs
• Code formatting
• Code navigation
• Color coding of code
• Electron based
• Embedded debugger
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Extensions
• Git integration
• Mercurial support
• Minimap
• PHP IDE
• Remote Debugging
• Run Android Apps on Desktop
• Support for NodeJS
• Version and Source control

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

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

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

SciTE

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running...

VSCodium

Binary releases of Visual Studio Code without Microsoft branding, telemetry and licensing.

Features:

• FLOSS
• No Tracking
• Privacy-friendly
• Automatic Indentation
• Autocompletion
• Built-in Terminal
• Code completion
• Code navigation
• Color coding
• Customizable
• Embedded debugger
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Git integration
• GIT support
• IDE
• Support for Javascript
• MarkDown support
• Minimap
• Multiple cursors
• PHP IDE
• Privacy Protected
• Syntax Highlighting
• Support for Themes