Lime Text!

Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go http://limetext.org//golang.org/.
It aims to be a free and open-source software successor to Sublime Text http://limetext.org//sublimetext.com/.
Lime has a few frontends (QML, command-line interface that can be selectively used with the pluggable backend. You can even develop your own and make it a drop-in replacement!

Lime Text alternatives

  • Notepad++

  • Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

    tags: Portable autocompletion block-edit code-editor code-formatting
  • Sublime Text

  • 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.

    tags: Portable autocompletion automatic-packaging automation code-completion
  • GNU Emacs

  • GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    tags: code-editor customizable extensible html html-editor
  • Kate

  • Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface.

    tags: code-formatting programmers-editor regular-expression syntax-highlighting tabbed-interface
  • TextMate

  • TextMate brings Apples approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

    tags: clipboard-history code-editor code-folding code-snippet-manager extensible
  • PSPad

  • PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support. Installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl.

    tags: Portable css file-transfer-protocol hex-editor html
  • jEdit

  • jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0.

    tags: code-editor java notepad programming text-editor