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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to jEdit

Brackets Sublime Text Notepad++ Geany Visual Studio Code Vim Textmate Netbeans Aptana Studio GNU Emacs

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to jEdit are Brackets, Sublime Text, and Notepad++. 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. A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 4
    Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions

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

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1008 social mentions

  6. 6

    Vim

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

    #Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

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

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

  11. 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

  12. 12
    Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions

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