metapad

Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features.

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Windows

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The Best 22 metapad Alternatives

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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
614 Like

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
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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
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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
190 Like

PSPad

PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on.

Free Windows

Portable Lightweight Syntax Highlighting
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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
27 Like

SynWrite

SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Free Open Source Windows Total Commander

Portable Syntax Highlighting
27 Like

RJ TextEd

RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding.

Free Windows

Portable Syntax Highlighting
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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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
11 Like

Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large...

Free Open Source Haiku

Support for FTP Syntax Highlighting Search and replace
9 Like

Syncplify.me Notepad!

Notepad! is the free, powerful, feature-rich replacement for your Windows Notepad. This software is completely free to use, for both personal and business purposes. With...

Free Windows

Portable Tabbed interface Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Support for Large File
8 Like

Thunderpad

Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Lightweight Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting
8 Like

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
7 Like

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
7 Like

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
5 Like

BowPad

BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

Free Open Source Windows

Ribbon Interface Syntax Highlighting
2 Like

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
1 Like

JujuEdit

JujuEdit is a file editor, or alternatively a text editor with knobs-on. It is an application designed for me and people like me. At its simplest, it makes a fine...

Free Windows

Syntax Highlighting Support for Large File

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The Best 22 metapad Alternatives

Vim

gedit

Geany

Visual Studio Code

Notepad2

PSPad

Notepad2-mod

SynWrite

RJ TextEd

slap

Scratch

Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

Syncplify.me Notepad!

Thunderpad

TwistPad

Ynote Classic

Notepas

BowPad

FavoText

JujuEdit

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