Eclipse Alternatives for BSD

GNU Emacs is an extensible and customizable, free and open source text editor. It was created by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman and has been dubbed "the most powerful text editor available today". At the core of GNU Emacs is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Which allows users to extend and customize GNU Emacs to their heart's content.

Vim dates back all the way to 1991 when Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar released it to the public. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. The software is released as free and open-source software under the Vim License. Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," as it relies more on customization of shortcuts and makes heavy use of macros that can be combined with muscle memory to achieve maximum proficiency. Vim was designed for use in both command-line interfaces and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface.

Apache NetBeans is free and open-source IDE that combines development environment, a tooling platform and application framework into one package. With Apache NetBeans developer can build applications with Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and other languages. Apache NetBeans also features code highlighting, both syntactically and semantically, while also letting developers refactor code with a wide range of powerful and handy tools. The software is openly developed by the Apache Foundation and is available for macOS, Linux, Windows and BSD.

A free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK with basic IDE features. Geany is designed and developed with performance in mind, and provides limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. Geany is available for a wide variety of operating systems including BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows.