gedit Alternatives

gedit is described as 'Extensible text editor with UTF-8 support, syntax highlighting for many languages, remote file editing, customizable interface, and plugin integration' and is a leading Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to gedit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best gedit alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like gedit are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. wxMEdit icon
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    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    88 wxMEdit alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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  2. Kompad icon
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    Open source note application with desktop, web, and mobile web access features intuitive file organization, folder grouping, color-coded tags, side panel search, auto updates, word and character counts, reading time estimates, and customizable themes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  3. FeatherPad icon
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    FeatherPad (by Pedram Pourang, a.k.a. Tsu Jan tsujan2000@gmail.com) is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and has:

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    • Linux
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  4. RJ TextEd icon
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    RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates...

    126 RJ TextEd alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  5. Notepadng icon
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    Notepadng is a fork of a Notepadqq editor with Web-based editor component replaced by Scintilla for better user experience, stability and maintainability. It also incorporates original color themes from Notepad++ itself to replicate...

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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. 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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  7. Caret icon
     32 likes

    Caret is a lightweight-but-powerful programmer's editor running as a Chrome Packaged App. Inspired by Sublime and built on top of the Ace editing component, it offers:

    108 Caret alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
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  8. NINJA-IDE icon
     34 likes

    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for...

    58 NINJA-IDE alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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  9. Onivim 2 icon
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    Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor - the next iteration of the Onivim project - combining Vim-style modal editing with the aesthetics and language features of modern editors.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Howl icon
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    Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

    144 Howl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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