What is the best alternative to SciTE?

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score 1116 · Answer 1

Atom

Atom qualifies to be a good IDE because of the packages like linters, atom browser and hydrogen See More

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Platforms:Microsoft Windows®, macOS, Linux

License:MIT

Price:free

Dev platforms:Microsoft Windows®; macOS; Linux

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score 63 · Answer 2

Kate

Collaborative editing:No

Supported remote file editing protocols:FTP; HTTP; SSH; WebDAV

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score 38 · Answer 3

Light Table

Top Pro

Inline evaluation

With LT's inline evaluation, you don't have to re-compile your whole source file. Each time you want to see an output, all you have to do is hover your cursor over the line you'd like to evaluate and press ctrl+enter; LT will evaluate that line of code for you. See More

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Your code runs live as you write it

The "Watches" feature lets you see your code running live as you type it. This means that you can debug your code live while writing it, which leads to considerably less programming errors. See More

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Plugin manager available

LT has a plugin manager built directly inside of it. This plugin manager connects to LT's own registry of plugins, so whenever you want assistance while writing your HTML, JS, or even Python, just open up the plugin manager, search for it, and click the little install button beside it's name. Your plugin will then be installed. See More

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Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

License:MIT

Price:Free /Opensource

Multi Language Support:Y; Language integrations (like inline eval) for Clojure, ClojureScript, Javascript, Python, HTML, and CSS

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score 1252 · Answer 4

Sublime Text

With lot of functionalities, where other editor even not think to provide. See More

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Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

License:Proprietary

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 2421 · Answer 5

Visual Studio Code

It supports pretty web rtl languages like arabic languages when most of other editors don't support it. See More

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Inline definition picking and usages finding

These features allow you to have a glance at code without opening it as a whole in a separate tab. Moreover, editing is allowed. See More

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Good support for new Emmet syntax

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Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

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score 17 · Answer 6

Howl

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Platforms:Windows; OSX; *nix

License:MIT

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 42 · Answer 7

Gedit

Collaborative editing:plug-in

Supported remote file editing protocols:FTP; HTTP; SSH; WebDAV

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score 360 · Answer 8

PhpStorm

Especially the "find in path" feature that displays both results and file preview! See More

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Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

360 50

score 458 · Answer 9

Spacemacs

Elixir layer which uses the Alchemist package is the best way to edit Elixir code out there. See More

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Platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux

License:GPLv3

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 61 · Answer 10

MacVim

Permits writing characters that don't fit in one byte, most notably logograms (for writing in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean) and Unicode characters. See More

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Platforms:OSX

License:GPL compatible

Collaborative editing:plug-in

Extension language:vimscript

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score 512 · Answer 11

Emacs

Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell. See More

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eshell is cross platform

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Gnus

Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles means that I never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use. See More

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Platforms:Unix-like, Windows

License:GPL

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 1605 · Answer 12

Vim

It is called "registers". See More

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Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows

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score 19 · Answer 13

Textadept

You can write plugins pretty easily. Here is the API doc, quite compact. Here is a module which adds a support for ctags. See More

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score 37 · Answer 14

Kakoune

Kakoune works on selections, which are oriented, inclusive range of characters, selections have an anchor and a cursor character. Most commands move both of them, except when extending selection where the anchor character stays fixed and the cursor one moves around. See More

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score 381 · Answer 15

Notepad++

Very easy to use and personalize. See More

Top Pro

Supports Markdown

If you have the Plugin Manager installed you can search for MarkdownViewer++ and install it via that plugin. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

License:GPL

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

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score 2 · Answer 16

Synwrite

Top Con

Windows only

Synwrite is only available for Windows and it's not cross-platform. See More

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Clean interface

Synwrite has a clean and beautiful UI. See More

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Small size and portable

Synwrite's small size makes it very portable and usable even from a USB flash drive. See More

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Built-in FTP support

Built-in support for FTP allows the user to transfer and exchange files between different computers and accounts. See More

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Platforms:Windows

License:MPL

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score 214 · Answer 17

Brackets

You can have your cursor independently on multiple lines and so creating templates and/or editing multiple things at once is really fast and easy. See More

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Vim mode

Vim-style editing is already built in the text editor. See More

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Support for Adobe PSD content

A default extension allows for the extraction of PSD resources, such as images and styles. There's good integration for placing extracted resources into source. See More

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Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

License:MIT

Collaborative editing:No

Supported remote file editing protocols:FTP (plug-in)

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score 29 · Answer 18

Komodo Edit

License:MPL; GPL; LGPL

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 20 · Answer 19

Codelobster

score 11 · Answer 20

Slap

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