TextPad Alternatives

With RubyMine you can produce high-quality code more efficiently, thanks to first-class support for Ruby and Rails, JavaScript and CoffeeScript, ERB and HAML, CSS, Sass and Less, and more. RubyMine is IDE specifically designed for the programming language Ruby. It allows developers to take advantage of the language specific-aware syntax & error highlighting, code formatting, code completion, and quick documentation.

TextWrangler is an all-purpose text and code editor for macOS. TextWrangler is now BBEdit.

Notepad2 was designed to be a free and open Notepad alternative, the default text editor application of Windows. Notepad2 is released under the BSD license and is small and fast text editor that provides syntax highlighting. With Notepad2 you can enjoy the same Notepad application you come to love, but for free, with syntax highlighting.

Notepad++ is a free and open source text editor that support a wide range of programming languages. Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

A free and open source IDE based on Electron and Atom, developed by Microsoft. Visual Studio Code or VS Code is an extensible IDE or coding editor that is loved by many developers around the globe. The editor combines a streamlined UI with advanced code assistance, code nagivation and intellisense.

A free and open-source IDE for macOS, Linux, and Windows developed by GitHub Inc. The application is build on the Electron framework and provides a wide eco-system of add-ons that can be used to extend the IDE further. Atom is loved by developers across the globe.

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.

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.

A loved text editor and IDE for web developers and designers that provides unmatched responsiveness. Sublime Text provides a wide selection of editing command including indenting or un-indenting, paragraph reformatting, line joining , multiple selections, regular expression search and replace, incremental find as you type, and preserve case on replace. The IDE can also be extended with community built packages to further improve language detection, auto-complete and intellisense features.

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.

VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode. VSCodium is built on the same source code as VSCode, but with telemetry and tracking removed before it is packaged as an application. VSCodium is released under the MIT license and is a great way to use VSCode without being tracked by Microsoft.

gedit is a free and open source IDE native to the GNOME desktop environment. With gedit you can work with a wide range of programming languages including C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Python and Perl. The IDE automatically detect programming language and provide code color highlighting accordingly. It also include features like search and replace, spell checking, printing and support for most filte types.