JOE

JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

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JOE is a full featured terminalbased screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

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The Best 41 JOE Alternatives

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Free Open Source Windows

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Multiple languages Tabbed interface Lightweight Support for FTP Autocompletion Macros Feature Side by Side comparison Color coding Support for regular expressions Live Preview Configurable Block edit Code formatting Plugin manager
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
834 Like

Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Distraction free UI Interior Design Syntax Highlighting Community based Minimap Modular System Autocompletion GitHub integration Plugin API GIT support Code completion Gitlab integration Multiple cursors Package Control Plugins Feature Fuzzy Finder Hackable Integrated Development Environment Support for Multiple programming languages Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Unit Testing
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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
438 Like

Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Xfce

Customizable Minimalistic Portable Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Support for Large File Code navigation
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
279 Like

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Scripting Syntax Highlighting Package Control Terminal based Self documenting
188 Like

GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Mac Haiku

Command line interface Search and replace Terminal based Automatic Indentation
172 Like

Kate

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE

Tabbed interface Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Code formatting
151 Like

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
143 Like

UltraEdit

UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux
132 Like

SciTE

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
60 Like

Leafpad

Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD MacPorts Cygwin

Lightweight Drag n drop
54 Like

programmers notepad

Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

Free Open Source Windows
38 Like

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
28 Like

MacVim

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z, ?V, ?A, ?G, etc.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
26 Like

Textadept

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Syntax Highlighting Command line interface
21 Like

Editra

Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
19 Like

slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Node.JS

Portable Syntax Highlighting Command line interface

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The Best 41 JOE Alternatives

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GNU Emacs

GNU nano

Kate

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