GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

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GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, autoindentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

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Command line interface Search and replace Terminal based Automatic Indentation

The Best 9 GNU nano Alternatives

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Notepad

Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.

Free Windows

Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows
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EmEditor

EmEditor is a fast Unicode text editor for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting large files, scriptable macros, CSV files, keyword highlighting and more.

Commercial Windows

Support for Unicode Import CSV data Windows Explorer integration Support for Large File
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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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EditPlus

EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

Commercial Windows

Integrated Web Browser Tabbed interface Support for FTP Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Shell integration Search and replace
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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
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TwistPad

Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.

Commercial Windows

Portable Tabbed interface Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Search and replace
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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
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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
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BabelPad

BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different...

Free Windows

Portable Multiple languages Support for Unicode

This page contains applications similar to the GNU nano

The Best GNU nano alternatives for Command line interface, from Search and replace to a Terminal based.
Alternatives in GNU nano for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. This list contains a total of 9 applications similar to GNU nano.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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