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GNU Emacs alternatives and similar tools

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• Atom

  10.0 9.7 GNU Emacs VS Atom

  A hackable text editor from Github.

• Brackets

  9.9 8.4 GNU Emacs VS Brackets

  Open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers.

• TextMate

  9.2 8.9 L2 GNU Emacs VS TextMate

  A graphical text editor for OS X.

• Lime

  9.2 0.0 GNU Emacs VS Lime

  Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text

• Light Table

  8.9 4.8 GNU Emacs VS Light Table

  The next generation code editor.

• Vim

  6.6 6.6 GNU Emacs VS Vim

  A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing.

• Geany

  6.2 8.6 L2 GNU Emacs VS Geany

  GTK2 text editor.

• Haroopad

  5.9 0.7 GNU Emacs VS Haroopad

  Markdown editor with live preview.

• ICEcoder

  5.8 4.7 L5 GNU Emacs VS ICEcoder

  Code editor awesomeness, built with common web languages.

• KDevelop

  3.4 9.6 L1 GNU Emacs VS KDevelop

  IDE by the people behind KDE.

• jotgit

  3.3 0.0 GNU Emacs VS jotgit

  Git-backed real-time collaborative code editing.

• Nano

  2.1 0.0 L1 GNU Emacs VS Nano

  Easy to use, customizable text editor.

• Eclipse

  - - GNU Emacs VS Eclipse

  IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system.

• Notepad++

  - - GNU Emacs VS Notepad++

  GPLv2 multi-language editor with syntax highlighting for Windows.

• Visual Studio Code

  - - GNU Emacs VS Visual Studio Code

  An open source cross-platform extensible code editor from Microsoft

• Micro

  - - GNU Emacs VS Micro

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

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