The Best 102 GNU nano Alternatives

  • Kakoune icon

    Kakoune

    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    Free Linux

  • Traditional Ex - Vi editor icon

    Traditional Ex - Vi editor

    The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Left icon

    Left

    Left is a distractionless writing tool with auto-complete, a synonyms dictionary, writing statistics, markup-based navigation and a speed-reader. The application is...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Syntaxic icon

    Syntaxic

    A keyboard-friendly text editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Features: - Incremental search and replace - Sidebar and jump-to-file functionality - Symbolic...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PICO (the PIne COmposer) icon

    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

  • Poly Edit Lite icon

    Poly Edit Lite

    PolyEdit Lite is a multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is fast, small, and easy-to-use. You can also use PolyEdit as an HTML...

    Freemium Windows

  • Eddie icon

    Eddie

    Eddie is a programmers editor for Mac OSX and Gnome Linux. Inspired by the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, Eddie brings some of it's powerful features into a...

    Free Mac OS X Linux

  • acme icon

    acme

    Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • LopeEdit icon

    LopeEdit

    [be careful during the installation: forum ] lopeedit is a powerful programmers...

    Freemium Windows

  • Climacs icon

    Climacs

    Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • vile icon

    vile

    vile is a portable vi clone with extra features and other improvements. It's a text editor that attempts to combine the best aspects of the popular Emacs and vi...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Cygwin

  • mg icon

    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

  • TinyEdit icon

    TinyEdit

    TinyEdit Text Editor is a free text editor, a ideal tool as a good Notepad replacement, have many powerful features for Web page developers and programmers, supports...

    Free Windows

  • Cream (for Vim) icon

    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