Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Buffer Editor

Product categories

Cloud Computing Code Editor Coding Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Software Development Terminal Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Buffer Editor are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, and Brackets. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Visual Studio Code Landing Page
1

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1009 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
2

Sublime Text

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
3

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
4

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
5

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Bytes Editor by Delicious Lines Landing Page
6

Bytes Editor by Delicious Lines

Bytes is a fast, lightweight and easy to customise text editor and terminal emulator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Developer Tools #IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors
GNU Emacs Landing Page
7

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Pyto Landing Page
8

Pyto

Coding Python Scripts
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development
Neovim Landing Page
9

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
10

Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Spacemacs Landing Page
11

Spacemacs

Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
12

Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 social mentions