Best Text Editor Software - Page 3
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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Write! is a text editor designed to help users draft a blog post, keep their notes organized, collect inspirational ideas, and others.
- 67% Small-Business
- 17% Enterprise
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Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility.
- 45% Mid-Market
- 27% Enterprise
42,912 Twitter followers
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Trans-Tex Software Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, ASCII text editor that fills the gap between a Apple's bare-bones TextEdit and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean,
- 56% Enterprise
- 28% Small-Business
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Anyfile Notepad is a text editor that lets you open any type of files on Google Drive and Dropbox.
- 64% Small-Business
- 18% Mid-Market
4 Twitter followers
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Leafpad is a GTK+ text editor that has implemented features in the editor such as Codeset option, auto codeset detection, undo/redo, auto/multi-line indent, drag and drop, and more.
- Building Materials
- Computer Software
- 88% Mid-Market
- 13% Small-Business
2 Twitter followers
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This tool is likewise a sort of notepad for those customary clients who work through the assistance of web on the internet browser.
- Information Technology and Services
- 55% Small-Business
- 36% Enterprise
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Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.
- Design
- Computer Software
- 75% Small-Business
- 27% Mid-Market
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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.
- Information Technology and Services
- Computer Software
- 69% Small-Business
- 31% Mid-Market
1 Twitter followers
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A fast text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook and more.
- Computer Software
- 58% Mid-Market
- 42% Small-Business
2,315 Twitter followers
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Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go that aims to be a Free and open-source software successor to Sublime Text.
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 68% Small-Business
- 21% Enterprise
524,655 Twitter followers
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HTML-Kit is a text editor for markup and code for web development that allows you to edit, preview, validate, publish and manage projects.
- 67% Small-Business
- 28% Mid-Market
632 Twitter followers
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EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file.
- Information Technology and Services
- 55% Small-Business
- 25% Enterprise
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Elvis Text Editor is a vi/ex clone providing syntax hilighting, mulitple files in mulitple windows, browse modes for LaTeX, HTML, and MAN pages, network support, and GUI frontends.
- Information Technology and Services
- 73% Small-Business
- 18% Mid-Market
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Textastic is an advanced code editor for iPad with rich support for syntax highlighting, (S)FTP and Dropbox.
- 78% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
3,802 Twitter followers
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The Arbortext solution streamlines the way organizations create, manage, and deliver technical publications & service information. Arbortext connects the writers and illustrators who create produc
- Airlines/Aviation
- 54% Enterprise
- 35% Mid-Market
37,743 Twitter followers
