ConTEXT

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers. After years searching for a suitable Windows...

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ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers. After years searching for a suitable Windows text editor, we didnt find any of them to satisfy our needs, so we wrote our own.

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The Best 21 ConTEXT 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
614 Like

gedit

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD GNOME OpenSolaris

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion
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
190 Like

PSPad

PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on.

Free Windows

Portable Lightweight Syntax Highlighting
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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
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Lime Text

experimental sublime text clone. the backend is written in go (programming language). if you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. this project is at an early stage. it is a chance and a challenge. we hope you are up to it.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Go (Programming Language)

Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting
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
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
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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
11 Like

Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large...

Free Open Source Haiku

Support for FTP Syntax Highlighting Search and replace
9 Like

Text

Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on...

Free Windows Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Google Drive integration Sync with Dropbox Syntax Highlighting
8 Like

Pluma

pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of mate desktop environment.

Free Linux

Tabbed interface Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Automatic Indentation
8 Like

Thunderpad

Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Lightweight Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting
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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Xed

A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.

Free Open Source Linux

Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Automatic Indentation
2 Like

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 ConTEXT Alternatives

Sublime Text

Vim

gedit

Visual Studio Code

Notepad2

PSPad

Notepad2-mod

Lime Text

SynWrite

Caret

Zed Code Editor

Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

Text

Pluma

Thunderpad

Ynote Classic

Notepas

BowPad

Xed

FavoText

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