The Best 117 GNU Emacs Alternatives

  • Free Hex Editor

    Free hex editor (Frhed) is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • PICO (the PIne COmposer)

    PICO means "very small" and also stands for "PIne COmposer". PICO is designed to be a "simple editor", ie only the bare minimum of...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • BVRDE

    The BVRDE is a fully integrated development environment for remote cross-platform compiling and debugging of UNIX and LINUX console applications. BVRDE runs on a Windows...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Heraia

    Lightweight HEX-Editor.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • Yi

    Yi is a text editor written, and extensible in, the Haskell programming language. It can be made to behave like emacs or like vi. Features: * A purely...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PilotEdit Lite

    PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search...

    Free Windows

  • mg

    OpenBSD Mg editor. Portable Public Domain Micro Emacs for *BSD, Cygwin, Linux, Mac OS X.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD Cygwin

  • edile

    Edile is a basic but useful text editor for Linux, Mac OSX and other unix-like operating systems. Written in Python, Edile is implemented in a single source code file...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Cream (for Vim)

    cream is a free text editor. a modern configuration of the powerful and famous vim , cream is for microsoft windows, gnu/linux, and freebsd.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Vim

  • Emacs Prelude

    Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 24 configuration that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux GitHub

  • Jove

    Jove is a compact, powerful, Emacs-style text-editor. It provides the common emacs keyboard bindings, together with a reasonable assortment of the most popular advanced...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux MS-DOS

  • Spacevim

    spacevim is spacemacs for vim . spacevim provides 2 ways of using it. first you can use it as a vim distribution like spacemacs.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • JED

    JED is a freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms. Although it is a powerful editor designed for use by programmers...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Haiku MS-DOS

  • Remacs

    remacs is a community-driven port of emacs using rust .

    Free Open Source Linux Rust