jEdit Alternatives

At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft

Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems.

Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format.

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing

Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor.

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.