A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.




Diakonos is described as 'Powerful and easy to use console-based text editor' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Diakonos for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Diakonos alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Diakonos are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.




BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...



A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.





A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.


jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...




Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes.
These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.




Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.


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.

