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Other Text Editors

Even if you don't want to use one of the traditional Unix text editors, it's still a good idea to use an editor more powerful and flexible than Notepad or TextEdit, particularly if you ever edit scripting or programming language files, or even HTML. All of the editors below do some sort of syntax highlighting and have at least some auto-indenting support. Some also have features like auto-complete. Most are free (as in speech and beer), a few expect you to pay eventually or offer more features in a paid version.

Editor

Platform(s)

License

Notes

Atom

Mac (10.8 or higher)

MIT

Windows and Linux versions coming

TextWrangler

Mac (10.6.8 or higher)

closed source, but free

Recommended Mac editor

BBEdit

Mac (10.6.8 or higher)

closed source, $49.99

Same base as TextWrangler, but with more features, e.g. version control integration, powerful HTML tools

Notepad++

Windows

GPL

Recommended Windows editor

Sublime Text

Windows, Mac (10.6 or higher), and Linux

Sublime EULA

Costs $59, but has an open ended free evaluation period

Komodo Edit

Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Mix of GPL, LGPL, and MPL

Built on top of the Mozilla platform (but not browser-based), so it's pretty heavyweight compared to the rest. And they constantly try to upsell you to KomodoIDE ($295). It is a good editor though.

gedit

Linux (Gnome), Windows, Mac

GPL

Natively a Gnome editor, it looks like a Linux app even on Mac and Windows. Recent versions at least try to look more native.

jEdit

Windows, Mac, and Linux

GPL

Cross platform editor written in Java. Doesn't look or act native anywhere.

Kate

Linux (KDE)

LGPL2

SciTE

Windows, Linux

Similar to MIT license. i.e. disclaimer and notice)

Works on MacOS X with Darwine

TextEditors (last edited 2018-03-28 12:52:27 by slate)

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