xPad. 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

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

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...

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

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

Pinegrow Web Editor

Pinegrow is a Mac, Windows and Linux web editor that lets you build responsive websites faster with live multi-page editing, CSS & SASS styling, CSS Grid editor and...

Features:

• Support for Bootstrap
• Drag n drop
• Relational database
• Reusable content blocks
• Support for Foundation
• Web Development
• Website builder
• WordPress
• WYSIWYG Support