Best Text Editors for Linux of 2024

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    Overleaf Reviews

    Overleaf

    Overleaf (Writelatex Limited)

    2 Ratings
    You don't need to do anything complicated. LaTeX is easy to use, even if it's your first time using it. Overleaf includes a fully-functional, ready-to-go LaTeX environment that runs on our servers. Overleaf gives you the same LaTeX setup wherever you are. You can trust that Overleaf will not cause any package conflicts or version inconsistencies by working with your peers and students.
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    Komodo IDE Reviews

    Komodo IDE

    ActiveState Software

    1 Rating
    The IDE for today's web language - Python, PHP and Perl - allows you to code faster.
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    SlickEdit Reviews
    Multi-platform cross-platform code editor that supports over 60 languages across 9 platforms.
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    UltraEdit Reviews

    UltraEdit

    IDM Computer Solutions

    1 Rating
    UltraEdit has been the preferred text editor for over 2 million users and many Fortune 100/500/1000 customers for almost three decades. UltraEdit is a powerful and fast data processor that can handle large files. It also supports almost any syntax or source language. UltraEdit is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife" of text editors. It's a powerful tool that can be used by users across many industries and responsibilities. UltraEdit is able to solve almost any problem in text editing, including project management and programming. It can also handle large file manipulations, remote (FTP/SFTP), data sorting, column/block editing, advanced file searching, and text data reformatting. UltraEdit is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is supported by a professional team of developers and customer service personnel located in the USA.
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    Vim Reviews
    Vim is a text editor that can be configured to create and modify any type of text quickly. It is available as "vi" in most UNIX systems, and with Apple OS X. Vim is multi-level, persistent, and multi-level. It supports hundreds of file formats and programming languages, has a powerful search and replace feature, as well as integration with many other tools. Vim online is a central location for the Vim community to save useful Vim tips. Vim supports plugin-like extensions that enable syntax highlighting, colorization, and other advanced features. These scripts can be uploaded online and maintained. Vim stands for Vi IMproved. It was once called Vi IMitation. However, there have been so many improvements that a new name was necessary. Vim is a text editor that includes almost all commands from Unix's program "Vi".
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    Code Browser Reviews
    Code Browser is a Linux and Windows folding text editor. It can hierarchically organize any type of text file, and especially source code. It makes it easier to navigate through source code. Code Browser is a tool that allows you to quickly navigate through the source code of large projects. It can also be used to view a simple CSS file. It is ideal if you don't want to scroll through thousands upon thousands of lines of code. It supports syntax highlighting in all major languages. Custom syntax highlighting is also possible. Code Browser was originally designed to be used to edit programs. However, it can also serve other purposes such as plain text outlining and helping to understand the source code. I have added a page that offers suggestions on how to fold.
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    Visual Studio Code Reviews
    Top Pick
    Code editing. Redefined Free. Open source. It runs everywhere. IntelliSense provides smart completions that go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete. It uses variable types, function definitions and imported modules to provide intelligent completions. You can debug code directly from the editor. You can attach or launch your apps, and debug with breakpoints, call stacks and an interactive console. It's never been easier to work with Git or other SCM providers. The editor allows you to review diffs and stage files, as well as make commits. Pull and push from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? To add languages, themes, debuggers and connect to other services, install extensions. Extensions are separate processes that don't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. Microsoft Azure allows you to deploy and host your React (Angular), Vue, Node (and many more!) applications. Sites can store and query relational or document-based data and scale with serverless computing.
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    Apache NetBeans Reviews

    Apache NetBeans

    Apache Software Foundation

    Free
    4 Ratings
    Development Environment, Tooling Platform, and Application Framework. Apache NetBeans is more than a text editor. It highlights source code semantically and syntactically, and allows you to refactor code with a variety of powerful and handy tools. Apache NetBeans offers editors, wizards, templates, and other tools to help you create Java, PHP, and other languages applications. Apache NetBeans is compatible with all Java-supporting operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD. NetBeans is also supported by Write Once, Run Anywhere.
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    Atom Reviews
    Atom is a hackable text editor built on Electron and inspired by our favorite editors. It is customizable but still easy to use the default configuration. Although a text editor is the heart of a developer’s toolbox, it doesn’t always work by itself. With the GitHub package, you can access Git and GitHub from Atom. You can create new branches, stage and commit, push, pull, resolve merge conflicts and view pull requests all from your editor. Atom already includes the GitHub package, so you are ready to go. Atom is compatible with all operating systems. It can be used on OS X, Windows or Linux. You can search for and install new packages, or create your own right within Atom. Atom makes it easier to write code faster thanks to its intelligent and flexible autocomplete. Browse and open files, whole projects, or multiple projects from one window.
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    Obsidian Reviews

    Obsidian

    Obsidian

    $25 one-time payment
    3 Ratings
    Obsidian, a powerful knowledge database, works on top a local folder of plaintext Markdown files. Human brains are non-linear. We move from one idea to the next all the time. Your second brain should function in the same way. Obsidian makes it easy to make and follow "connections". You can take your notes like a gardener and then, at the end of each day, you can sit back and admire your knowledge graph. Note-taking can be very personal. You've tried every app and there's always something wrong. You deserve better. Obsidian was built to be extensible. You can quickly set up your own toolkit with 22 core plugins or 149 community plugins. Once Obsidian reaches version 1.0, you'll be able install third-party plugins and build your own. The sky is the limit. Cloud services can be shut down, bought or changed privacy policies at any time. The last thing you want are proprietary formats and data lock in. Obsidian stores your data in a local folder.
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    Sublime Text Reviews
    Top Pick

    Sublime Text

    Sublime HQ

    $80 one-time fee
    21 Ratings
    Advanced text editor for code and markup. Goto Anything allows you to quickly jump to symbols, lines, or words by opening files using just a few keystrokes. You can make ten changes at once, and not just one change ten times. Multiple selections allow for interactively changing multiple lines at once, renaming variables quickly, and modifying files faster than ever before. The Command Palette contains infrequently used functionality such as sorting, changing syntax, and changing indentation settings. You can search for exactly what you need with just a few keystrokes. Sublime Text's Python API allows plugins to enhance the built-in functionality. Package Control can be installed using the command palette. This allows for easy access to thousands upon thousands of packages created by the community.
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    CodeLobster IDE Reviews
    You will need to decide which IDE you want to use when you begin programming with PHP. Many companies sell their IDEs at high prices (100-$500). We, on the other hand, offer a multifunctional portable IDE absolutely FREE with all these standard features: PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting; advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete; a powerful PHP debugger; context and dynamic Help; a code validator; a SQL manager and much more. The CodeLobster IDE simplifies and streamlines the PHP development process. We've made it easy for you to forget the names of arguments, arguments, tags, and their attributes. You can also use the Help control or press F1 to get any help information. You can validate your code locally with an internal PHP Debugger.
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    Brackets Reviews
    Brackets, a modern text editor with preprocessor support and focused visual tools, makes it easy to design in a browser. It was designed from the ground up to be used by web designers and front-end programmers. Brackets is a modern, lightweight text editor. The editor incorporates visual tools so that you can get the help you need without affecting your creativity. Brackets is a great place to write code. Brackets is an open source project that is supported by a passionate community. It was created by web developers like yourself! Brackets allows you to open a window that shows you the code you are most interested in, rather than jumping between file tabs. You want to see the CSS that applies only to a particular ID? You can use the Command / Ctrl+E button to display all CSS selectors for that ID in an inline browser.
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    BlueGriffon Reviews

    BlueGriffon

    Disruptive Innovations

    $87.75 one-time payment
    3 Ratings
    Based on Firefox's rendering engine, the next-gen Web and EPUB editor are available. BlueGriffon®, a proud inheritor from all of its famous ancestors, has a long list: Netscape®, Mozilla® Composer, and Nvu. It is powered by Gecko (the same rendering engine that powers Firefox® Composer), and has tons of powerful features. BlueGriffon®, which is used by millions around the globe, includes Universities, Governments, and even the European Parliament, is powered by Gecko. The French Government officially recommends it as the Web Authoring Tools for the French Administration, in its efforts to rely on and encourage Free Software.
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    Desech Studio Reviews

    Desech Studio

    Desech

    €9.99 per month
    No-Code visual html/css editor for web programmers and designers Import your Figma , Sketch or Adobe XD files into Desech Studio - Change the layout, responsiveness and attributes in Desech Studio - Connect with plugins like Material Design and React, Angular, Vue, etc - Desech Studio always stays in sync with your React, Angular, Vue, etc project
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    Boost Note Reviews

    Boost Note

    Boost Note

    $3 per member per month
    Boost Note is a powerful collaborative workspace for developers that works at a light speed. Boost Note was designed to improve developers productivity by providing the best note taking experience for developers. This is not just a GitHub-flavored markdown. Diagrams created with Charts.js and Mermaid can be embedded in documents to increase visibility. To create your own Markdown editor, you can choose from keymaps such as Vim, more than 150 themes and many other options. Programmatically manage your documents. Get an authentication token to access Boost Note's APIs through simple HTTP requests. Zapier allows you to automate your documentation with over 2,000 tool integrations. Work together with your colleagues to share information. All your teams can use the same shared workspace. Boost Note's realtime editing allows you to collaborate on documents. You can check the revision history of a document. In one click, you can roll back to the previous version. Granula access control is based on workspace.
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    Pinegrow Reviews

    Pinegrow

    Pinegrow

    $6 per month
    Pinegrow is a Mac and Linux web editor that allows you to build responsive websites faster. It supports multi-page editing and CSS & SASS styling. The CSS Grid editor also supports Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS and Foundation. Pinegrow is a desktop web builder that can open and save standard HTML and CSS files. This means that you won't be tied to a particular file format. Simply open and edit existing projects. Pinegrow can be used in conjunction with other web development tools. You can build websites offline without an internet connection. You can create as many websites as possible. With powerful visual tools, you can quickly build the layout of your website. You can insert multiple elements with repeater, and modify the layout of each element in one move. Rich visual controls, CSS Grid editor, Dev tools editor or code are all available to inspect active CSS rules. Live editing of SASS and LESS is possible without the use of any external tools.
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    CKEditor 5 Reviews
    CKEditor 5 is a modern WYSIWYG rich text editor that can easily accommodate the requirements of businesses and users in the age of digital transformation. It allows software creators and developers to build powerful writing solutions for applications of all sorts, within hours. Thanks to a fully customizable framework, ready-to-use builds, native integrations, extensive documentation, and reliable customer support, the editor can be fully tailored to your needs.
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    Pulsar Reviews

    Pulsar

    Pulsar-Edit

    Free
    Hyper-hackable text editor that is community-driven. Pulsar is compatible with all operating systems. It works on OS X, Windows and Linux. Pulsar allows you to search for and install new packages, or create your own. Pulsar makes it easier to write code faster thanks to its intelligent and flexible autocomplete. Browse and open files, whole projects, and multiple projects from one window. Split your Pulsar interface in multiple panes to edit and compare code across files. You can preview, find, and replace text in any file or across all of your projects.
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    Typora Reviews
    Typora allows you to enjoy a seamless experience both as a reader or writer. It eliminates the preview window and mode switcher as well as syntax symbols of markdown code and other distractions. Instead, it offers a live preview feature that allows you to focus on the content. Typora makes it easy to manage your files. It has both a file tree panel as well as an article (file list) side panel. This allows you to easily manage your files. You can organize your files however you like, and even add sync services such as Dropbox or iCloud. You can instantly see the outline structure of your documents in outline panel. This allows you to quickly navigate through the document and jump directly to any section. Bookmarks are available for export to PDF. Export or import can be done further. You can export or import more formats, such as docx, OpenOffice and LaTeX, MediaWiki, MediaWiki, and Epub. You can see how big your document is in words and characters, lines or reading minutes.
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    VSCodium Reviews
    Microsoft's vscode code is open-source (MIT-licensed), however, the product (Visual Studio Code), which is available for download, is licensed under this not FLOSS license. It contains telemetry/tracking. The VSCodium project is available so that you don’t need to download+build directly from the source. This project contains special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo and run the build commands. The resulting binaries are then uploaded to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under MIT. Telemetry is disabled. For Mac OS X Mojave users: If you see the message "App cannot be opened because Apple can't check it for malicious code" when opening VSCodium for the first time, right-click on the application and select Open. This is only necessary for the first Mojave launch. This document contains the most current information about migrating from Visual Studio Code, as well as any quirks that might occur.
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    JetBrains Fleet Reviews
    This IDE was built from scratch using 20 years of experience in developing IDEs. JetBrains Fleet is powered by the IntelliJ code processing engine. It features a distributed IDE architecture with a reimagined UI. Fleet is a lightweight and fast text editor that allows you to quickly browse and modify your code. It is quick to start up so you can immediately begin working. The IntelliJ code-processing engine can also run separately from the editor. Fleet inherits the best features of IntelliJ-based editors, including navigation to definitions and usages, code quality checks and quick fixes. Fleet's architecture can be configured to support a variety of workflows. Fleet can be run on your computer, or you can move some processes to another location, such as the cloud.
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    Bluefish Reviews
    Bluefish is a powerful editor that targets programmers and web developers. It offers many options to create websites, scripts, and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming languages and markup languages. Take a look at the screenshots and get a complete overview of features. You can also download it immediately. Bluefish is an open source development project released under the GNU GPL License. Bluefish runs on all desktop operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD MacOS-X, Windows and OpenBSD. Bluefish 2.2.12 is minor maintenance release that includes some minor new features. The most important feature is a fix for crashes in simple searches. The compatibility with Python 3 has been improved. Improved coding detection in Python files. Triple-click now selects a line. Bluefish works better on Mac OSX thanks to the new permission features. Bluefish also supports certain languages on OSX by using the correct language in its user interface.
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    Firepad Reviews
    Firepad is an open-source collaborative text editor that allows for real-time collaboration. Firepad allows for true collaborative editing. It also supports intelligent operational transform-based merging, conflict resolution, and more. Firepad can render documents with the CodeMirror Ace, Monaco, or Ace editors. Its operational transform code borrows from www.js. Firepad uses the Firebase Realtime Database to store and sync cloud data. Any application that requires collaborative editing text documents can be built. Firepad supports rich text and code editing right out of the box, and it is easy to extend for additional uses. Firepad was developed by Michael Lehenbauer, Firebase's team. Firepad could have many more features. Please star Firepad on GitHub, and send a pull request if you have anything to add! Any application that requires collaboration editing of text documents can be built.
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    Emacs Reviews
    It is a core component of Emacs Lisp's interpreter. This Lisp dialect includes extensions that support text editing. Many file types can be edited using content-aware modes, including syntax coloring. You will find all the documentation you need, as well as a tutorial for novice users. Unicode support for almost all human scripts. Emacs Lisp code and a graphical interface make it easy to customize. You can access a wide range of functionality, beyond text editing. This includes a project planner and mail and news reader, debugger interface and calendar, IRC client and many more. A packaging system to download and install extensions. Support for arbitrary-size integers built-in HarfBuzz allows text shaping. Native support for JSON parsing Cairo drawing support improved Unexec can be replaced with portable dumping. Support for XDG conventions init files. Additional early-init initialization files. Support for tab bar and tab line built-in. ImageMagick does not support the resizing or rotation of images.
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