SlickEdit

SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

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SlickEdit is a crossplatform, multilanguage code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

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The Best 84 SlickEdit 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
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
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
325 Like

Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Real time collaboration Support for FTP
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
266 Like

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
245 Like

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
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
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
82 Like

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
77 Like

AkelPad

A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.

Free Open Source Windows
71 Like

Smultron

Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users.

Commercial Mac OS X
61 Like

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
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
53 Like

TextPad

TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements.

Commercial Windows
25 Like

Scribes

A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power. Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated.

Free Open Source Linux

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The Best 84 SlickEdit Alternatives

Notepad++

Vim

gedit

Geany

Visual Studio Code

Aptana Studio

Notepad2

GNU Emacs

Coda

TextMate

PSPad

Notepad

UltraEdit

Espresso

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Smultron

EmEditor

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