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Top Programming Editors

Top Programming Editors

Summary

Programming editors can be used for writing code, editing text files such as configuration files, creating user instruction files and many more. Here we provide the list for Top Programming Editors. Some of them are open source. Let’s see the highlight of Editor with its features.
  • Araneae
  • Atom
  • ATPad
  • Brackets
  • Coda
  • CoffeeCup
  • Crimson Editor
  • jEdit
  • Komodo Edit
  • Micro
  • Notepad++
  • SubEthaEdit
  • Sublime Text
  • Text Wrangler
  • TextMate
  • UltraEdit
  • Vim
  • Visual Studio Code

Araneae

Araneae operates only Windows. There is not a requirement any third extension to support other programming languages like HTML, CSS, XHTML, PHP, and Rails. It doesn’t support Macros.
Araneae

Features

  • Drag and drop option
  • Multiple instance support as in jEdit
  • Includes multiple extensions
  • Support for multiple programming languages
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Search and replace multiple edits

Atom

Atom is a simple interface as compared to the other editors. Atom is the invention of GitHub. Atom’s performance is slow as compared to other text editors and difficult to handle large files.
Atom

Features

  • Easy to customize UI
  • Easy to navigate interface
  • Fuzzy File Finder
  • Integrated Package Manager
  • Supports Command Palette

ATPad

The most important feature of ATPad is that it is not necessary to install it on the computer system, and you can open it virtually from any drive. It is also available in 11+ regional languages. It doesn’t provide advanced features and automatic spell checker.
ATPad

Features

  • Open it virtually from any drive
  • Doesn’t need to install on PC
  • Line numbering
  • Options to add bookmarks
  • Find and replace multiple edits
  • Supports Text Snippet
  • Supports cascading of Windows

Brackets

Brackets is an Adobe product. It is free to download. The most important feature of Brackets is Extract. It is used to grab colors, measurements, fonts, gradients, etc. from a PSD file into a ready-for-web CSS. It does not support auto-completion of code, third party plugins and split screen.
Brackets

Features

  • Best or implement JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Easy to customize
  • The extract is used to grab colors, measurements, fonts, gradients, etc
  • Preview the code
  • Updated regularly latest features and bug fixes

Coda

Coda is one of the best web development software for Mac OS X. It doesn’t support any other systems. The latest version is 2.6.10.
coda

Features

  • Auto code completion
  • Block editing and syntax coloring
  • Drag and drop option
  • Integrated all core features
  • Leopard GUI

CoffeeCup

CoffeeCup is a lightweight HTML editor. It supports HTML/CSS programming. It supports all major platforms including Windows and Mac. It offers only basic features.
CoffeeCup

Features

  • Code Validation tools
  • Easy startup
  • FTP enabled
  • Splendid support for HTML designing and development
  • Syntax and code highlighting

Crimson Editor

Crimson Editor is a free text editor for Windows. It is used as a source code editor and HTML editor. It supports the use of macros. Basic mathematics functions and date functions are also available in Crimson Editor.
Crimson Editor

Features

  • Auto-indentation
  • Column mode editing
  • Direct editing of text files in FTP
  • Multiple undo/redo
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Tabbed document interface
  • Windows shell integration

jEdit

jEdit is a free editor. It is written in Java. It runs on any operating system with Java support, including BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It supports hundreds of plugins and macros. It is a heavyweight application and takes time in loading.
jedit

Features

  • Auto indentation
  • Code and text folding
  • Compiler integration using a third-party plugin
  • Implement regular expressions
  • Integrated FTP browser
  • Multiple instances can be run at the same time

Komodo Edit

Komodo Edit is an open source platform for dynamic programming languages. The latest version is 11.1. It is written in C++, C, XUL, Perl, Python, JavaScript, Tcl.
Komodo Edit

Features

  • Auto indentation
  • Code coloring
  • Code autocomplete
  • Extension support and macros
  • Syntax Highlighting

Micro

Micro is a terminal-based text editor. It is a Lightweight intuitive text editor for the console. It is used for Linux, MacOS, BSD, Windows, ARM Linux platforms.
Micro

Features

  • Lightweight
  • Easy to Use and install
  • Flexible split screen functions
  • Easily extendable with plugins
  • Snippet support

Notepad++

Notepad++ is free. It supports several languages. It is written in C++. It highlights the code with mistakes. The current version is 7.6.
Notepad++

Features

  • lightweight application
  • Supports external plugins
  • FTP support
  • Run on Windows (also run on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X using Wine)
  • Drag and Drop Option
  • Auto indentation

SubEthaEdit

SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The most important feature is collaborative editing. The collaboration is document-based, non-locking, and non-blocking. It is used for distributed pair programming and collaborative note-taking in conferences.
SubEthaEdit

Features

  • Customizable syntax highlighting
  • Full line-ending
  • Live-updating preview of rendered HTML documents using WebKit
  • Regular expression search
  • Symbol pop-up for 20+ languages
  • 40+ user-contributed languages.
  • Unicode and character encoding support

Sublime Text

Sublime text is a lightweight text editor. It provides powerful IDE-like features along with Python Scripting. It supports the black background for an enhanced view. It takes time to open big files.
SublimeText

Features

  • Beginner friendly interface
  • The black screen supports distraction-free editing mode
  • Instant file switching
  • Fully customizable
  • Multi-Line select and editing
  • Supports cross-platform
  • Syntax detection

Text Wrangler

TextWrangler is the iOS-based text editor. It supports only one primary language i.e. English. It is the best tools for Unix and server administration. It doesn’t support collaborative editing, HTTP or WebDAV.
Text Wrangler

Features

  • Supports 44 programming languages
  • Supports execution of big files
  • Plugin support and macros
  • Secure FTP
  • Supports SSH
  • Compare two docs simultaneously
  • Code folding
  • Auto-Completion

TextMate

TextMate is a Mac-based text editor. It is mostly preferred for programming in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. It is Only available for Mac OSX. The biggest drawback is Outdated UI. It doesn’t support fullscreen.
TextMate

Features

  • Auto Indentation and Completion
  • Clipboard History
  • Column Selection and Column Typing
  • Search and Replace
  • Supports 50+ programming languages
  • Supports Xcode, FTP, Foldable Code Blocks, Perforce, Darcs, SVK, and Subversion
  • Syntax Highlight and coloring

UltraEdit

UltraEdit is the best for developments in HTML, JavaScript, PHP, C/C++, Perl, and other programming languages. This tool is very expensive as compared to aothertext editors.
UltraEdit

Features

  • Code and syntax highlighting
  • Column/Block Editing
  • Integrated SSH and FTP
  • File and data sorting
  • Multi-Select option
  • Support to handle large files

Vim

Vim is a vi text editor program for Unix. It is written in C. The latest version of Vim is 8.1. Vim has many enhancements over vi. Neovim is an extension of Vim.
vim

Features

  • Unicode and other multi-language support
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Trans-session command
  • A comprehensive integrated help system
  • Extended regular expressions
  • Support for plugins
  • A graphical user interface (gvim)
  • Spell checking

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is an open source platform and can be used on any platform like Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The application lightweight. It occupies very less space on the disk. It takes a lot of time in updating on Linux.
Visual Studio Code

Features

  • Supports 30+ programming languages
  • Bras Matching
  • Code Folding
  • Syntax Highlighting
  • Installs time is less
  • Portable version to download in the supported devices
  • Enables GitHub control and offers to debug features
Here we have provided the list of Top Programming Editors with its highlight and features. Choose the best editor according to your requirement. Happy Coding!

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