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Notepad++ Plugin Manager
Notepad++ Plugin Manager
The nppPluginManager repository contains the legacy Plugin Manager for Notepad++, a tool that once allowed users to easily install, update, and remove plugins within the editor. It relied on a centrally hosted XML file that listed available plugins, which the manager compared against those already installed. Since 2019, however, the plugin is no longer actively maintained, and the supporting web service that provided plugin lists has been discontinued. Users are now encouraged to rely on Notepad++’s built-in plugin solution instead of this deprecated tool. 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++
A free, portable, fast and simple C/C++ IDE
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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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Notepad++
Free, open-source text editor
Notepad++ is a source code editor that is free to use and is available in various languages. The source code editor is also written in C++ and is based on the Scintilla editing component. Notepad++ offers a wide range of features, such as autosaving, line bookmarking, simultaneous editing, tabbed document interface, and many more features. Over 140 plugins are also available to use in the default program. Notepad++ takes advantage of higher execution speed and smaller program size by using Win32 API and STL. The ability to optimize efficiency without sacrificing user-friendliness results in an environment-friendly technology that reduces carbon dioxide emissions. Ultimately, the reduction in power consumption is much better for the environment while still being a viable option for businesses. If you like this project consider donating. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/donate/ -
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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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Notepad++ Plugins
A plugin to improve Notepad++
Notepad++ plugins is a collection of tools which plays a role of completion for Notepad++. This project contains Explorer, Function List, Hex Editor, Spell Checker and a console program NppExec. Other plugin developers are invited to share their projects -
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Dev-C++ for Windows 10/8/7
A fast, portable, simple, and free C/C++ IDE
Coding Boot Camp Learning to program? Check out the free boot camp from Embarcadero which runs from Monday, August 22nd to Friday, August 26th. https://learndelphi.org/boot-camp-2022/ Embarcadero Dev-C++ is a new and improved fork (sponsored by Embarcadero) of Bloodshed Dev-C++ and Orwell Dev-C++. It is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and code editor for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as its compiler. Embarcadero Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler. Embarcadero Dev-C++ is built using the latest version of Embarcadero Delphi. Embarcadero Dev-C++ has a low memory footprint because it is a native Windows application and does not use Electron. Optimized for parallel compilation on modern multi-core machines. GitHub Project: https://github.com/Embarcadero/Dev-Cpp/ Sponsored by Embarcadero: https://www.embarcadero.com/free-tools/dev-cpp -
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Azure Data Studio
A data management tool that enables working with other SQL tools
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals who use on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Azure Data Studio offers a modern editor experience with IntelliSense, code snippets, source control integration, and an integrated terminal. It's engineered with the data platform user in mind, with the built-in charting of query result sets and customizable dashboards. Use Azure Data Studio to query, design, and manage your databases and data warehouses wherever they are, on your local computer or in the cloud. Azure Data Studio offers a modern, keyboard-focused SQL coding experience that makes your everyday tasks easier with built-in features, such as multiple tab windows, a rich SQL editor, IntelliSense, keyword completion, code snippets, code navigation, and source control integration (Git). -
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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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SAKURA Editor
A free Japanese text editor for Windows
A free Japanese text editor for Windows -
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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. 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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A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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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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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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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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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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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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AndroidIDE
AndroidIDE is an IDE for Android to develop full featured Android apps
An IDE to develop real, Gradle-based Android applications on Android devices. -
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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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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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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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Copybara
Copybara: A tool for transforming and moving code between repositories
Copybara is an open source code transformation and migration tool developed by Google for synchronizing and managing source code across multiple repositories. It allows developers to transform, filter, and move code between repositories while maintaining a consistent source of truth. Copybara is particularly useful in workflows where projects maintain both confidential (internal) and public (open source) repositories, enabling controlled synchronization and contribution management between them. The tool supports advanced transformations—such as file relocation, content replacement, and metadata adjustments—defined declaratively in configuration files. It operates in a stateless manner, storing synchronization state within commit metadata to ensure reproducibility and collaboration among multiple users. Copybara currently supports Git repositories (with experimental Mercurial support) and can be integrated with CI/CD systems or run manually. -
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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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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.
