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MadEdit

MadEdit

Open Source

MadEdit is a discontinued, cross-platform text and hex editor designed with developers in mind. It offers syntax highlighting, a hex editing mode, and various customization options within a lightweight, tabbed interface. While no longer maintained, it provided a range of features useful for coding and binary file manipulation.

Integrated text and hex editing reduces the need for multiple applications.
Syntax Highlighting
Development
pyRenamer

pyRenamer

Open Source

pyRenamer is a versatile batch file renaming tool designed to efficiently manage large collections of files. It offers various renaming methods, including search and replace, insertions, deletions, case changes, and sequence numbering, all with a live preview function.

Easy to use interface for standard renaming tasks.
Batch rename files
File Management
CotEditor

CotEditor

Open Source

CotEditor is a free and open-source text editor designed specifically for macOS. It offers a clean and intuitive interface, making it a lightweight yet powerful tool for plain text editing, coding, and more.

Excellent performance and lightweight.
Colored Text
Development
Aquamacs Emacs

Aquamacs Emacs

Open Source

Aquamacs Emacs is a robust, free, and open-source text editor specifically tailored for the macOS environment, built upon the powerful Emacs framework. It provides a familiar Mac experience while leveraging Emacs' extensive customization and feature set, making it ideal for developers across various programming languages.

Excellent macOS integration reduces friction for Mac users.
EMACS
Development
JOE

JOE

Open Source

JOE (Joe's Own Editor) is a venerable, full-featured terminal-based text editor known for its ease of use and extensive feature set, making it suitable for both casual editing and complex programming tasks within the command line environment.

User-friendly for a terminal editor
Command line interface
Development OS & Utilities
slap

slap

Open Source

Slap is a modern, Sublime Text-like terminal-based text editor designed for developers who prefer working within the command line environment. It offers features such as syntax highlighting, a tabbed interface, and extensibility through plugins, making it a capable tool for coding and text editing directly in your terminal.

Familiar interface for Sublime Text users.
Command line interface
Development OS & Utilities
wxMEdit

wxMEdit

Open Source

wxMEdit is a versatile cross-platform text and hex editor, serving as a powerful alternative to the discontinued MadEdit. Built on C++ and wxWidgets, it provides developers and advanced users with robust features for editing text files and binary data.

Seamlessly integrates text and hex editing.
Hex Editor
Development
Editra

Editra

Open Source

Editra is a robust, cross-platform text editor designed with developers in mind. It's open-source, highly customizable through plugins, and features essential tools for coding like syntax highlighting, code completion, and an embedded terminal.

Highly customizable through plugins.
Lightweight
Development
Mousepad

Mousepad

Open Source

Mousepad is a straightforward yet capable text editor designed specifically for the Xfce desktop environment. It provides essential text editing functionalities in a lightweight package, making it an excellent choice for everyday tasks and basic code editing.

Extremely lightweight and fast startup
Drag n drop
Development
Neovim

Neovim

Open Source

Neovim is a modern, extended version of the Vim text editor, focusing on usability, extensibility, and integration. It's designed for developers and power users seeking a highly customizable and efficient text editing experience, particularly within the terminal environment.

Extremely efficient workflow through modal editing.
Development OS & Utilities
dnGREP

dnGREP

Open Source

dnGREP is a powerful, portable file search utility for Windows that allows users to quickly find text within files using plain text, regular expressions, or XPath queries. It provides clear, organized results and supports various file types for efficient content discovery and replacement.

Powerful search options including regex and XPath
Search and replace
File Management
Lime Text

Lime Text

Open Source

Lime Text is a community-driven, open-source text editor designed for programmers and web developers. It provides a clean and customizable interface with rich features for efficient coding, including syntax highlighting, distraction-free mode, and extensibility through plugins.

Free and open-source: Accessible to everyone and modifiable.
Distraction-free UI
Development
SynWrite

SynWrite

Open Source

SynWrite is a comprehensive and free source code editor for Windows, serving as an excellent Notepad replacement with robust features for various programming and web development tasks. It's designed for performance and extendibility, making it suitable for both novice and experienced developers.

Free and open-source with no licensing costs.
Syntax Highlighting
Development
Scribes

Scribes

Open Source

Scribes is a free and open-source minimalist text editor designed for programmers and writers who value simplicity and efficiency. It provides a clean interface with essential features like syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and extensibility through plugins, making it a lightweight yet powerful tool for various coding and writing tasks.

Minimalist and clean user interface.
Syntax Highlighting
Development Office & Productivity
Textadept

Textadept

Open Source

Textadept is a powerful, free, and open-source text editor designed for programmers. Focusing on speed and extensibility, it offers a minimalist interface while providing robust features like syntax highlighting, code formatting, and a built-in terminal, all heavily customizable through Lua scripting.

Extremely lightweight and fast performance.
Command line interface
Development OS & Utilities
MacVim

MacVim

Open Source

MacVim is a robust, open-source text editor specifically tailored for macOS users, bringing the power and extensibility of Vim with a native graphical interface. It seamlessly integrates Vim's renowned modal editing and command-line power with the familiar macOS windowing environment.

Powerful and efficient modal editing.
Lightweight
Development
Puddletag

Puddletag

Open Source

Puddletag is a free and open-source audio tag editor designed for managing and organizing large music collections. It supports a wide range of audio formats and offers powerful features for batch editing, automatic tagging, and file renaming.

Excellent batch processing capabilities.
Support for regular expressions
Audio & Music
Kid3

Kid3

Open Source

Kid3 is a powerful and versatile cross-platform audio tag editor that supports multiple audio file formats. It is designed for both novice and experienced users to efficiently organize and manage their music collections through comprehensive metadata editing features.

Supports a wide range of audio formats
Support for regular expressions
Audio & Music
Programmer's Notepad

Programmer's Notepad

Open Source

Programmer's Notepad is a fast and lightweight text editor designed specifically for programmers and developers. It offers extensive syntax highlighting for numerous programming languages, a powerful search and replace engine with regular expression support, and a highly customizable environment. Ideal for those seeking a free, open-source, and portable code editing solution.

Very fast and lightweight, loads quickly.
Multiple languages
Development
AkelPad

AkelPad

Open Source

AkelPad is a highly customizable, portable text editor designed for Windows. It boasts a lightweight footprint, extensive plugin support for enhanced functionality, and the ability to handle large files efficiently. Ideal for users seeking a fast and configurable alternative to standard text editors.

Extremely lightweight and fast.
Code format coloring
Development
EasyTAG

EasyTAG

Open Source

EasyTAG is a free and open-source utility for conveniently viewing, editing, and writing tags for popular audio and video file formats. It supports a wide range of formats including MP3, MP4, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, Speex, WMA, WAVpack, and various tracker modules. Ideal for organizing large media collections.

Supports a wide range of audio and video formats.
Automatic Tagging
Audio & Music File Management Video & Movies
IDLE

IDLE

Open Source

IDLE (Integrated DeveLopment Environment) is the standard IDE that comes bundled with the Python programming language. It provides a simple and user-friendly environment for writing, running, and debugging Python code, making it an excellent choice for beginners and casual development tasks.

Comes pre-installed with Python, no additional setup needed.
Python
Development
jEdit

jEdit

Open Source

jEdit is a mature, feature-rich text editor written in Java. It's highly extensible via plugins and suitable for programmers and general text editing tasks across various operating systems.

Highly extensible through a large plugin ecosystem.
Java
Development
Bluefish Editor

Bluefish Editor

Open Source

Bluefish is a powerful yet lightweight code editor designed for web developers and programmers. It offers a wide array of features for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and many other programming languages, focusing on efficiency and ease of use for building dynamic websites and applications.

Very lightweight and fast, ideal for quick editing and less powerful systems.
Support for SFTP
Development File Management
SciTE

SciTE

Open Source

SciTE is a free and open-source text and code editor built on the SCIntilla editing component. It's designed to be a lightweight yet powerful tool for programmers and web developers, offering syntax highlighting, code folding, autocompletion, and extensibility across multiple platforms.

Extremely lightweight and fast performance.
Lightweight
Development File Management
Kate

Kate

Open Source

Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor, is a powerful yet lightweight text editor popular among developers and advanced users. Offering robust features like syntax highlighting, built-in terminal, extensibility via plugins, and comprehensive customization options, Kate caters to a wide range of text editing and coding tasks across platforms.

Feature-rich with advanced tools like built-in terminal and regex support.
Syntax Highlighting
Development
GNU nano

GNU nano

Open Source

GNU nano is a user-friendly command-line text editor widely used on Unix-like systems. Known for its simplicity and quick startup, it provides basic editing functionalities for configuration files, scripts, and general text manipulation directly within the terminal environment.

Very easy to learn and use, even for beginners.
Automatic Indentation
Development
GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Open Source

GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor, renowed for its powerful features and ability to serve as a complete development environment. It is based on the Emacs Lisp programming language, allowing for deep customization and a vast ecosystem of packages.

Highly customizable and extensible through Emacs Lisp.
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Development
Notepad2

Notepad2

Open Source

Notepad2 is a free and open-source text editor for Windows known for its lightweight nature, portability, and rich feature set including syntax highlighting for numerous programming languages, code folding, and advanced search and replace functionalities. It offers a highly customizable interface and is ideal for developers and power users seeking a capable alternative to the standard Notepad.

Very lightweight and fast
Syntax Highlighting
Development
Notepad2-mod

Notepad2-mod

Open Source

Notepad2-mod is a powerful, yet lightweight and portable text editor based on the classic Notepad2. It offers enhanced features like extended syntax highlighting for numerous languages, Unicode support, and a tabbed interface, making it a superior replacement for the standard Windows Notepad for developers and power users alike.

Extremely fast launch and responsive performance.
Syntax Highlighting
Development
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