Leafier Alternatives

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions.

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

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 it is also a strength. The normal mode binds alphanumeric keys to task-oriented commands. The visual mode highlights text. The command-line mode offers more tools (for search&replace, defining functions, etc.

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

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 and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. It's crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers. Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor.

Features:

• Live Preview
• Autocompletion
• Integrated FTP client
• Syntax Highlighting
• Built-in Level Editor
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• File-sync
• Git integration
• Multiple languages
• Streamlined interface
• Web Development

GNU Emacs

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: * Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML. * Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Cross-platform
• Customizable
• Editable text color schemes
• Extensions
• Syntax Highlighting
• IDE
• IDE All Languages
• Package Control
• Scripting
• Self-documenting
• 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 Komodo IDE) a try: it'll be worth your while. Windows, Mac, Linux? Yes. PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML5, CSS 3? Yes, with (customizable) syntax coloring, folding, background syntax checking, and excellent auto-complete and calltips (we call it "code intelligence").

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 Visual Studio Code maintainer: When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.

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