Chocolat

Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

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Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

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The Best 21 Chocolat Alternatives

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Lightweight Auto saving Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting Minimap Optimized for fast boot Autocompletion Plugin API Code completion Automatic packaging Memory footprint Multiple cursors Package Control Plugins Feature Scriptwriting Assistant
1021 Like

Vim

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Plugin manager Configurability Keyboard focused Modal editor Small size Terminal based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs
438 Like

Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Xfce

Customizable Minimalistic Portable Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Support for Large File Code navigation
368 Like

Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Javascript MarkDown support Lightweight Syntax Highlighting Mercurial support Version and Source control Dark theme Plugin support Autocompletion Bugs GIT support Code completion Intellisense Multiple cursors C# Scripting Embedded debugger Built in Terminal Git integration
280 Like

Notepad2

Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Lightweight Syntax Highlighting Small size
245 Like

TextMate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

Commercial

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Syntax Highlighting Search and replace Automatic Indentation
82 Like

Espresso

espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of cssedit .

Commercial Mac OS X

Syntax Highlighting Code completion Live css editing
59 Like

Qt Creator

qt creator is a cross-platform c++, javascript and qml integrated development environment which is part of the sdk for the qt framework.

Commercial Open Source

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Refactoring
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Notepad2-mod

A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Bookmarks Feature
34 Like

Peppermint

Peppermint is a tweakable Swiss Army knife for Coding on your Mac.

Commercial Mac OS X

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Code completion
27 Like

SynWrite

SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Free Open Source Windows Total Commander

Portable Syntax Highlighting
26 Like

Textadept

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Syntax Highlighting Command line interface
25 Like

Caret

professional text editing for chrome and chrome os. caret is a graphical text editor modeled on http://alternativein .

Free Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Syntax Highlighting Code completion
16 Like

Scratch

Scratch is the text editor that works for you. It auto-saves your files, meaning they're always up-to-date. Plus it remembers your tabs so you never lose your spot, even in between sessions. Make it yours.

Free Open Source Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Tabbed interface Lightweight Scripting Syntax Highlighting
14 Like

Zed Code Editor

Zed is a fully offline-capable text and code editor you can use to edit files locally, on Dropbox, or remotely on any server.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Dropbox integration Syntax Highlighting Code completion
9 Like

Syncplify.me Notepad!

Notepad! is the free, powerful, feature-rich replacement for your Windows Notepad. This software is completely free to use, for both personal and business purposes. With...

Free Windows

Portable Tabbed interface Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Support for Large File
7 Like

Ynote Classic

Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent...

Free Open Source Windows

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Support for Large File Automatic Indentation
7 Like

Notepas

Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Portable Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Search and replace
5 Like

BowPad

BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

Free Open Source Windows

Ribbon Interface Syntax Highlighting
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FavoText

FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

Commercial Windows

Syntax Highlighting Support for SFTP Web log analysis

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The Best 21 Chocolat Alternatives

Sublime Text

Vim

Geany

Visual Studio Code

Notepad2

TextMate

Espresso

Qt Creator

Notepad2-mod

Peppermint

SynWrite

Textadept

Caret

Scratch

Zed Code Editor

Syncplify.me Notepad!

Ynote Classic

Notepas

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