TextEdit Alternatives

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. ...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Package Control
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Customizable
• Multiple cursors
• Syntax Highlighting
• Font Ligature Support
• High-dpi support
• Plugins
• Simple text editor
• Text editing
• Auto-saving
• Autocompletion
• Automatic packaging
• Clean design
• Code completion
• Directory structure
• Fullscreen support
• Memory footprint
• Minimap
• Distraction-free UI
• Php
• Plugin API
• Portable
• Python
• Ruby
• Scriptwriting Assistant
• Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-Refresh

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

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

Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help...

Features:

• Support for FTP
• Php
• Real time collaboration
• Web Development

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...

Features:

• Automatic Indentation
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Macros
• Search and replace
• Syntax Highlighting
• Support for Themes

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...

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...

Features:

• Syntax Highlighting
• ASCII to Hex
• Edit files without creating a project
• Hex Editor
• Lightweight
• Portable

Notepad

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

Features:

• Minimalistic
• Lightweight
• Simple text editor
• Support for Unicode
• Bundled with Windows

UltraEdit

UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports...

Features:

• Column based text editing
• Hex Editor