Pluma

pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of mate desktop environment.

Free
Linux

pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of mate desktop environment. it supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. pluma is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or mdi). pluma fully supports international text through its use of the unicode utf8 encoding in edited files. its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation and printing and print preview support.

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Tabbed interface Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Automatic Indentation

The Best 39 Pluma Alternatives

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Lightweight Auto saving Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting Minimap Optimized for fast boot Autocompletion Plugin API Code completion Automatic packaging Memory footprint Multiple cursors Package Control Plugins Feature Scriptwriting Assistant
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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
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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
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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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Brackets

Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License.

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

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple languages Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Live Preview
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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
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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
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Coda

Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And a dash of SSH too.

Commercial Mac OS X iPhone iPad

Real time collaboration Syntax Highlighting Built in File Manager
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TextMate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

Commercial

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Syntax Highlighting Search and replace Automatic Indentation
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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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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
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Espresso

espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of cssedit .

Commercial Mac OS X

Syntax Highlighting Code completion Live css editing
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Qt Creator

qt creator is a cross-platform c++, javascript and qml integrated development environment which is part of the sdk for the qt framework.

Commercial Open Source

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Refactoring
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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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Peppermint

Peppermint is a tweakable Swiss Army knife for Coding on your Mac.

Commercial Mac OS X

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Code completion
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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
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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
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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

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