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Free Text Editors (Better Notepad Alternatives)
(11 posts)There are so many good free NotePad alternatives which have many more features than notepad:
[u][size=12]Windows:[/size][/u]
- Notepad++
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)
- Notepad2
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Windows Notepad For Mac
- ConTEXT
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- Crimson Editor
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)
- Programmer's Notepad
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)
- PSPad
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2)
[u][size=12]Mac:[/size][/u]
- Aquamacs
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3)
- Smultron
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- TextWrangler
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[u][size=12]Both:[/size][/u]
- Komodo Edit
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2: Windows - Mac - Linux)
- jEdit
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 (Only Windows) | Download Link 3: Windows - Mac - Linux)
- Vim
[color=white]___[/color](Download Link 1 | Download Link 2: Windows - Mac - Linux)
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[u][size=12]Best ones (In terms of features):[/size][/u]
[color=red]Windows:[/color] Notepad++
[color=red]Mac:[/color] Aquamacs
[color=red]Linux:[/color] Vim
Any chance you can decrease the size of header fonts?
I'll move this to Tutorials.
@Scott
I tried. The font size on that is 12, but no matter if I BBCode the font size 2 or 50, it turns out that same size.
@SarahJames
Thanks for the addition, although I can't find any better features that Metapad has when compared to Notepad++. Can you please elaborate. Notepad++ also has a better UI (atleast to me).
Actually, I've done my research and I've found out Notepad++ is a lot better than Metapad in terms of features.
How? Importantly, syntax highlighting is a feature that metapad lacks. Bracket Matching, folding code and automatic completion is something notepad++ has that metapad doesn't. Metapad doesn't have a built-in compiler. This makes metapad worse than a lot of the text editors I've mentioned above.
I can't mention all now but just getting used to Notepad++, you'll notice a lot of features other text editors don't have.
And seriously, you like the UI of metapad more than notepad++?
Notepad++
[IMG]http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc496/Zakir1407/Random/NotepadUI.png[/IMG]
Metapad
[IMG]http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc496/Zakir1407/Random/MetapadUI.png[/IMG]
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@Scott.
If you can't move it to tutorials, please consider it a sticky in OT?
Oh and I think a lot of the other features are overkill. At least they are for me. Never needed anything more than what metapad does :)
Your Metapad UI is different. What version do you have or did you just customize it?
And why exactly is the 'Best for windows: Metapad'? I'm sure you meant 'Best for Me: Metapad'.
Edit: Looks like you have version 1 when 3 is out.
Yes, ok: best for me :)
But I guess that goes for just about any app we could talk about :D
And this is the version I have:
Just unticked show toolbar. Does that count as 'customizing' ? ;)
Edit: oh I díd customize the icon :)
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