Acme Alternatives

Acme is described as 'Powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Acme for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Acme alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Acme are Vim, gedit, GNU Emacs and GNU nano.

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  1. Lime Text icon
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    Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.

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  2. metapad icon
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    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...

    106 metapad alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  3. SynWrite icon
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    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    170 SynWrite alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Total Commander
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  4. Text Editor Pro icon
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    Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories and search results.

    73 Text Editor Pro alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  5. TextPad icon
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    TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.

    126 TextPad alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. BabelPad icon
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    BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

    153 BabelPad alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  7. TwistPad icon
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    Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.

    89 TwistPad alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.

    176 Lines code editor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Smultron icon
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    Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs - like web programming, script editing, making a to do...

    71 Smultron alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. Judge0 IDE icon
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    Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11. Ynote Classic icon
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    Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent and autocompletion. It can highlight any language you like using Regular Expressions.

    157 Ynote Classic alternatives

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    • Windows
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  12. JOE icon
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    JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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