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Howl

General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Howl

Sublime Text Icecoder Vim GNU Emacs Netbeans Visual Studio Code Aptana Studio CotEditor Neovim Notepad++

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Howl are Sublime Text, Icecoder, and Vim. 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.
  1. 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

  2. ICEcoder is a browser code editor which provides a modern approach to building websites.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Development

  3. 3

    Vim

    Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions

  4. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

  5. 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

  6. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions

  7. The world’s most powerful open-source web development IDE just got better. Rebuilt from the ground-up. It's now much faster, customizable and includes new features to help you be more productive.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #IDE #Text Editors #Software Development

  8. Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 25 social mentions

  9. 9
    Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions

  10. 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

  11. Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

  12. 12
    Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions

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