Editors
Sorted by GitHub stars, which measures attention rather than fitness. Read the release date and the commit count next to it before picking one.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing. Vim · released unknown | 40,868 |
An open source cross-platform extensible code editor based on [VS Code by Microsoft](https://code.visualstudio.com/) removing their non-free additions. MIT · released 2026-07-07 | 33,158 |
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. MIT · released 2020-07-05 | 29,541 |
GPLv2 multi-language editor with syntax highlighting for Windows. GPL-2.0 · released 2026-08-23 | 29,259 |
An extensible, customizable text editor-and more. GPL-3.0 · released unknown | 5,191 |
GTK2 text editor. GPL-2.0 · released 2025-07-06 | 3,707 |
Code editor for web designers and front-end developers. MIT · released 2023-03-22 | 1,515 |
A fork of [atom](https://github.com/atom/atom) A hackable text editor from Github. MIT · released unknown | 782 |
IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system. EPL-1.0 · released unknown | n/a |
IDE by the people behind KDE. GFDL-1.2 · released unknown | n/a |
Easy to use, customizable text editor. GPL-3.0 · released unknown | n/a |
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