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Xed

A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Xed

Sublime Text Icecoder Vim Howl Notepad++ Netbeans Aptana Studio CotEditor Visual Studio Code TakeNote

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Xed 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. 4
    General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Office & Productivity 1 social mentions

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1015 social mentions

  10. A web-based note-taking app with GitHub sync and Markdown support.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Text Editors

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

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions

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    Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web. Simple, powerful interface for creating web apps.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    • Free Trial

    #Text Editors #Cloud Hosting #Code Collaboration 112 social mentions

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