Top 10 GNU Emacs Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to GNU Emacs Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Visual Studio Code
By Microsoft
4.7/5
(2,476)
Product Description
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, Visual Studio Code is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

Notepad++
By Notepad++
4.6/5
(2,412)
Product Description
Notepad++ is a source code editor and notepad replacement that supports several languages in a MS Windows environment with Syntax highlighing and folding, PCRE, customizable GUI, auto-completion and more.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, Notepad++ is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

Sublime Text
By Sublime HQ
4.5/5
(1,767)
Product Description
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, Sublime Text is:
Easier to set up
More expensive
More usable
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor
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UltraEdit
By Idera, Inc.
4.7/5
(1,125)
Product Description
UltraEdit is a powerful text editor and code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux that supports nearly any programming language and easily handles huge (4+ GB) files. Includes (S)FTP, SSH console, powerful find/replace with Perl regex support, scripting / macros, and more.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, UltraEdit is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

BBEdit
By Bare Bones
4.5/5
(63)
Product Description
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh that provides features for editing, searching, and minipulation of text for web authors and software developers.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, BBEdit is:
Easier to set up
More expensive
More usable
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

Kate
By KDE
4.2/5
(15)
Product Description
Kate is an editor and programmer software.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, Kate is:
More usable
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

TextPad
By Helios Software Solutions
4.4/5
(143)
Product Description
TextPad7.4 is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, TextPad is:
Easier to set up
More expensive
More usable
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

Brackets
By Adobe
4.4/5
(259)
Product Description
Brackets is a text editor tool that makes it easy to design in the browser, it iss crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, Brackets is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

CodePen
By CodePen
4.6/5
(95)
Product Description
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.
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Reviewers say compared to GNU Emacs, CodePen is:
More expensive
More usable
Better at support
Categories in common with GNU Emacs:
Text Editor

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