jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins.

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jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of personyears of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0.

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The Best 107 jEdit Alternatives

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HTML-Kit

HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages.

Commercial Windows
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wxMEdit

wxmedit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from madedit .

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
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Mousepad

A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce

Tabbed interface Lightweight Drag n drop
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CotEditor

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

Free Open Source Mac OS X

File Versioning Colored Text macOS like
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NoteTab

NoteTab is packed with time-saving productivity tools that no other text or HTML editor has.

Freemium Windows
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medit

medit is a programming and around-programming text editor. Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Xfce
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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
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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
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GetDiz

GetDiz is a fully featured text editor which can replace Notepad while maintaining an incredible speed, ease of use and small size. You can display and edit any text...

Free Windows
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Text Editor Pro

Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories...

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Syntax Highlighting
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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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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
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FoldingText

FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.

Commercial Mac OS X
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Jane

Jane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours:...

Free Windows

Portable Drag n drop Shell integration
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Macchiato

Macchiato is a simple plain text editor with a twist. Modeled after TextEdit's plain text mode, the editor is a chrome-less blank canvas. However, it is built from...

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TEA

TEA is a fast, pure C++ text editor for UNIX, Mac, OS/2 and Windows.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Tabbed interface Syntax Highlighting Built in File Manager Built in Image converter Built in Image viewer Built in archiver
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xPad.

xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad...

Free Mac OS X
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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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Coastline

Coastline is a simple minimalist text file editor. Handy and fast, it allows you to create, open, edit and save plain text files. Features: - Minimalist design -...

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The Best 107 jEdit Alternatives

HTML-Kit

wxMEdit

Mousepad

CotEditor

NoteTab

medit

Scratch

Zed Code Editor

GetDiz

Text Editor Pro

TwistPad

Ynote Classic

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