10 Best Notepad++ Alternatives in 2020

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Notepad++ Landing Page
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Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Here, is a curated list of top 10 alternatives which can replace Notepad++. This list includes commercial as well as open-source code editors (IDE) with popular features and latest download link.

#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 168 social mentions
Atom Landing Page

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Atom

At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

Atom is useful code editor tool preferred by programmers due to its simple interface compared to the other editors. Atom users can submit packages and them for the software.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 152 social mentions
GNU Emacs Landing Page
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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Emacs is a Unix based text editor tool which is used by programmers, engineers, students, and system administrators. It allows you to add, modify, delete, insert, words, letters, lines, and other units of text.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
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Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
NetBeans is an open-source code editor tool for developing with Java, PHP, C++, and other programming languages. With this editor, code analyzers, and converters. It allows you to upgrade your applications to use new Java 8 language constructs.

#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
jEdit Landing Page

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jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins

jEdit, a code editor program which is written in Java. This open source tool supports hundreds of plugins and macros. It offers a large collection of plugins maintained by a worldwide developer team.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development
Geany Landing Page
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Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
Geany is a text editor which uses GTK+ toolkit. It also has certain basic features of an integrated development environment. The tool supports many filetypes and has some nice features.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
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Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
TextMate is a versatile plain text editor for mac with unique and innovative features. The tool offers support for many programming languages, writing prose in structured formats such as blogging, running SQL queries, writing screenplays, etc.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
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Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
Vim is an advanced text editor open source tool which is also considered to be an IDE in its way. This tool allows managing your text editing activities with vim editors and UNIX System which can be used on-premise or online.

#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Light Table Landing Page

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Light Table

Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from...

Light Table is an IDE and text editor tool for software development. The tool offers fast feedback and allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 11 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
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Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
Brackets is a lightweight tool developed by Adobe. It is an open source text editor which is free to download. It allows you to a toggle between your source code and the browser view.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Bluefish Landing Page

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Bluefish

Bluefish is a text editor for web designers and programmers.

Bluefish a is a cross-platform editor is a speedy tool which can handle dozens of files simultaneously. The tool allows developers to conduct remote editing. This code editor tool offers many options to s programmers and web developers, to write websites, scripts, and programming code.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 2 social mentions