GNU nano Alternatives
GNU nano is described as '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 number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GNU nano for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best GNU nano alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU nano are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Zed Editor.
Alternatives list
Introducing Fastedit, designed to make editing and organizing your documents effortless. With the ability to open multiple tabs, you can easily edit or view multiple documents at once. The app also features line numbering and custom designs to personalize your experience.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
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26 Zee alternativesZee is a modern editor for the terminal, written in Rust. It is a highly experimental code. In the old tradition of text editor demos, here's what it currently looks like editing its own source code.
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
PICO means "very small" and also stands for "PIne COmposer". PICO is designed to be a "simple editor", ie only the bare minimum of commands and simply to use. Very good for beginners who wish to write emails and posts.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
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185 Graviton Editor alternativesGraviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
121 IT-Edit alternativesIT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing interface and terminals in the same window as the editor.
Platforms
- Linux
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The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
Platforms
- Windows
- Total Commander
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