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Notepad++ Plugin Manager (old repo)
Notepad++ Plugin Manager [deprecated - now on github]
This project is the old location for the plugin list for Notepad++ Plugin Manager. Please use https://github.com/bruderstein/npppluginmanager for any issues and current code -
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Dev-C++
Open Source C & C++ IDE for Windows
Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. It supports Windows 98, NT, 2000 & XP. This is the original Dev-C++ software as published by Colin Laplace and this repository is frozen to version 4.9.9.2. For more recent versions of Dev-C++, please check the following forks: - Embarcadero Dev-C++: https://sourceforge.net/projects/embarcadero-devcpp/ (last update: March 2021) - Orwell Dev-C++: https://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/ (last update: 2016) - wxDev-C++: http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/ (last update: 2012) -
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CudaText
Cross-platform text and code editor
Cross-platform code editor, with syntax highlight for 300+ languages. Has lite interface with tabs. Has JSON config files instead of the options dialog. Supports Python extensions. Documentation wiki: http://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText -
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jVi is a vi/vim editor clone built on top of the javax.swing.text package. Available for NetBeans and JBuilder. jVi is designed to quickly and easily integrate into many disparate java based desktop apps, from IDE's to mail-news readers.
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jEdit Plugin Central is the primary online repository of plugins for the jEdit text editor. In conjunction with this repository, the integrated Plugin Manager allows jEdit users to install, upgrade, and remove plugins without leaving the editor.
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PyScripter
Python IDE
PyScripter is an open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial IDEs available for other languages. It is a feature-rich but also lightweight. PyScripter is powered by Embarcadero Delphi, who sponsors' its development. Please note that 64-bit installers and portable versions are available under "Files". PyScripter is build with Delphi and sponsored by Embarcadero www.embarcadero.com Check out the free ebook on Python GUI development : https://embt.co/PythonGUIBundle -
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RedPanda C++
A powerful, lighweight and cross-platform C/C++ IDE
Red Panda C++ is a lightweight yet powerful C/C++/GNU Assembly IDE. It provides users with coding experiences like vs code and CLion, but is much lightweighted than them. Highlights of its new and enhanced feature: * High DPI support * Code intellisense (Code Completion suggestion while editing). * Syntax checking while editing * Greatly improved debugger (local \ call stack \ memory view) * Theme and color scheme. * UTF-8 encoding support * Greatly improved search/replace function; File/Replace in files * Refactor: rename symbols * Cross Platform: Windows and Linux * SDCC Compiler Support -
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IntelliJ Community Edition
IntelliJ IDEA & IntelliJ Platform
IntelliJ Community is the open source upstream of JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA, forming the core of a powerful, extensible, and intelligent development environment. It provides foundational features like a robust editor with code completion, syntax highlighting, refactoring tools, version control integrations, terminal, debugger, and plugin architecture. Since it’s open, community developers can contribute to language supports, UI tweaks, and platform enhancements. From this base, JetBrains builds full editions (Ultimate) by layering proprietary features for enterprise frameworks and integrations. IntelliJ Community supports multiple JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy) and serves as a host for plugin ecosystems that add support for web, database, and cloud tooling. The project emphasizes performance, modularity, and a responsive user experience, maintaining a codebase that balances long-term maintainability with cutting-edge developer features. -
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PyDev is a Python Development Environment (Python IDE plugin for Eclipse). It features an editor with code completion, code analysis, refactoring, outline view, debugger, mark occurrences and other goodies - check http://pydev.org for more details). It's kept going by community contributions, so, if you think it's a worthy project, please contribute through http://pydev.org
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KompoZer
A wysiwyg HTML editor that uses the Mozilla Composer codebase
KompoZer is a wysiwyg HTML editor using the Mozilla Composer codebase. As Nvu's development has been stopped in 2005, KompoZer fixes many bugs and adds a few useful features. -
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jEdit
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java.
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture. -
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Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans is much more than a text editor. It highlights source code syntactically and semantically, lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools. Apache NetBeans provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications in Java, PHP and many other languages. Apache NetBeans can be installed on all operating systems that support Java, i.e, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Write Once, Run Anywhere, applies to NetBeans too. -
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VSCodium
binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VSCode. Please note that some Visual Studio Code extensions have licenses that restrict their use to the official Visual Studio Code builds and therefore do not work with VSCodium. -
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Visual Studio Code
Modern IDE and code editor from Microsoft for Mac, Windows, and Linux
Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive code editing, navigation, and understanding support along with lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools. Visual Studio Code is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license. Visual Studio Code is updated monthly with new features and bug fixes. You can download it for Windows, macOS, and Linux on Visual Studio Code's website. To get the latest releases every day, install the Insiders build. Debug code right from the editor. Launch or attach to your running apps and debug with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. Working with Git and other SCM providers has never been easier. Review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor. -
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Atom
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable and full-featured. It's also easily customizable- you can customize it to do anything and be able to use it productively without ever touching a config file. Atom is free to download and runs on Linux, OS X and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control. It is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell),a framework for building cross-platform apps using Chromium and Node.js. -
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Blockly
The web-based visual programming editor
The Blockly library adds an editor to your app that represents coding concepts as interlocking blocks. It outputs syntactically correct code in the programming language of your choice. Custom blocks may be created to connect to your own application. Blockly in a browser allows web pages to include a visual code editor for any of Blockly's five supported programming languages, or your own. Blockly plugins are self-contained pieces of code that add functionality to Blockly. Blockly codelabs provide step-by-step instructions on how to use and customize Blockly. From a user's perspective, Blockly is an intuitive, visual way to build code. From a developer's perspective, Blockly is a ready-made UI for creating a visual language that emits syntactically correct user-generated code. Blockly can export blocks to many programming languages. -
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Integrated Development Environment for some microcontrollers based on 8051(e.g. AT89S8253). Supported languages are Assembly and C. It has its own simulator, assembler, editor and many other tools. See the project web site for more details and the newest updates.
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Neovim
Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Neovim is a hyperextensible text editor based on Vim. It seeks to maximize usability and extensibility, simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. -
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Brackets
A modern, lightweight yet powerful text editor
Brackets is a free, modern open-source text editor made especially for Web Development. Written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets makes it easy for web designers and front-end developers to design in the browser. Its blend of visual tools ensures you get just the right amount of help when you want it without disrupting your creative process. It's the better, easier and more enjoyable way of writing code. -
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Komodo Edit
Komodo Edit is a fast and free multi-language code editor
Code faster with the IDE for today’s web languages – Python, PHP, Perl, Golang, Ruby, and more. Powerful editor with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, code refactoring, and more. Visual debugger and more to debug, inspect, and test your code. Support for Git, Mercurial, Subversion, CVS, Perforce and Bazaar. Tons of add-ons for customizing and extending features. Great tools for pair programming and collaboration. Python, PHP, Perl, Go, Ruby, Node.js, JavaScript, and more. Define your own workflow with easy file and project navigation. Backed by ActiveState, trusted by developers and enterprises. -
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Scintilla is a free source code editing component which includes useful features such as syntax styling, error indicators, folding, code completion and call tips. The project includes SciTE (SCIntilla based Text Editor).
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SimulIDE
Real Time Electronic Circuit Simulator.
Real Time Electronic Circuit Simulator. Include PIC, AVR and Arduino simulation. Code Editor & Debugger for Arduino, GcBasic, PIC asm, AVR asm. Downloads: https://simulide.com/p/downloads/ WebSite: https://simulide.com Forum: https://simulide.com/p/forum/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simulide AVR simulation provided by simavr: https://github.com/buserror/simavr PIC simulation provided by GpSim: http://gpsim.sourceforge.net/ -
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Zed
Code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter
Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI. Written from scratch in Rust to efficiently leverage multiple CPU cores and your GPU. Integrate upcoming LLMs into your workflow to generate, transform, and analyze code. Chat with teammates, write notes together, and share your screen and project. Multibuffers compose excerpts from across the codebase in one editable surface. Evaluate code inline via Jupyter runtimes and collaboratively edit notebooks. Support for many languages via Tree-sitter, WebAssembly, and the Language Server Protocol. Fast native terminal tightly integrates with Zed's language-aware task runner and AI capabilities. First-class modal editing via Vim bindings, including features like text objects and marks. Zed is built by a global community of thousands of developers. Boost your Zed experience by choosing from hundreds of extensions that broaden language support, offer different themes, and more. -
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Geany
A fast and lightweight IDE
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages. -
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JByteMod-Beta
Java bytecode editor
JByteMod is a multifunctional bytecode editor with syntax highlighting and live decompiling and method graphing.
