Best Text Editor Software - Page 2
Text editors are specialized software applications designed for creating and modifying text files. These editors support plain text and can interpret various forms of text, including markup languages for rich text formatting. This type of software is a simplified alternative to integrated development environments (IDE). They cater to programmers and developers engaged in tasks like modifying plain text source code, editing configuration files, and reviewing error logs.
When a full-fledged IDE is unnecessary or too confining, developers often choose text editors for increased flexibility and coding freedom, allowing them to step outside conventional development methods. Particularly beneficial for beginners, free text editor tools offer a user-friendly space for learning and experimentation.
The best text editors seamlessly integrate with source code management software and build automation tools through customizable plugins to support a smooth development workflow. These editors excel at handling a modest number of text files and offer essential features like regular expression search and replace, syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and support for multiple tabs or window panes.
Text editors balance simplicity and functionality, serving as valuable tools for developers seeking a lightweight yet effective solution for their coding tasks.
To qualify for inclusion in the Text Editor category, a product must:
Best Text Editor Software At A Glance
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StackEdit is an in-browser markdown editor.
- Computer Software
- 45% Mid-Market
- 45% Small-Business
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Text Edit Plus is a simple but powerful plain text editor with helpful features. It is a lightweight tool that enables users to easily create new text documents or modify existing ones. The applicatio
- 55% Mid-Market
- 36% Enterprise
372 Twitter followers
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Kate is an editor and programmer software.
- Computer Software
- 60% Mid-Market
- 40% Small-Business
119,734 Twitter followers
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jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.
- 50% Mid-Market
- 36% Small-Business
2 Twitter followers
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SubEthaEdit can work without any Internet connection. Bonjour networking makes it easy to just collaborate without the hassle of setting up connections and jumping through hoops to see each other.
- 42% Enterprise
- 33% Small-Business
3,400 Twitter followers
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Textadept is a cross-platform text editor that runs on different types of platforms, that allows you control over the application using Lua programming language, as well as split veiws, code autocompl
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 58% Small-Business
- 25% Mid-Market
91 Twitter followers
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Codemirror is a versatile text editor implemented in JavaScript for the browser. It is specialized for editing code, and comes with a number of language modes and addons that implement editing functio
- Computer Software
- 50% Small-Business
- 40% Mid-Market
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TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X.
- Computer Software
- 56% Small-Business
- 26% Mid-Market
3,076 Twitter followers
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Inspire creates a distraction-free, light markdown writing environment that boosts your productivity. From quick notes to blog posts to great novels, you focus on the content, and Inspire helps with t
- 75% Small-Business
- 17% Enterprise
5 Twitter followers
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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. It is best used for j
- 50% Mid-Market
- 40% Small-Business
9,249 Twitter followers
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gEdit is a general purpose text editor that includes internationalized text, syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file reverting, print and print preview support and more.
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 42% Small-Business
- 33% Mid-Market
198,957 Twitter followers
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mousepad is a simple open source text editor for Xfce.
- Computer Software
- 55% Mid-Market
- 36% Small-Business
18,528 Twitter followers
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GNU Emacs is a customizable text editor that is an interpreter and dialect with extension to support text editing with content-sensitive editing modes, built-in documentation, Unicode support, and mor
- Software Engineer
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 46% Small-Business
- 31% Mid-Market
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SlickEdit provides software developers with the multi-language, multi-platform code-editing capabilities they need to write better code, faster.
- 53% Enterprise
- 32% Mid-Market
231 Twitter followers
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VEDIT quickly edits, translates and sorts any text, data, binary (hex) or EBCDIC file; even 100+ Gigabytes!
- 45% Small-Business
- 27% Enterprise
104 Twitter followers
