Mousepad is a free and open source text editor for Linux. It is a default text editor for Xfce desktop environment. But you can use it on all other Linux desktops. It is a easy-to-use and fast editor with all…
Geany is a free and open source lightweight IDE for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is a small and fast code editor for programmer. It comes with auto completion, color themes, project management, code navigation, code folding, syntax highlighting and…
GNOME Text Editor is a free and open source text editor from GNOME team for Linux. GNOME 42 ships with this core text editor replacing Gedit and Ubuntu also considering this for 22.10. It comes with spell checking, dark-mode support, syntax highlighting for most common programming languages, improved autosave for unsaved and draft files, integrated Vim keybindings support, PCRE2-based regular expressions support, editorconfig and modelines support and more.
Lapce is a free and open source code editor for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It is written in Rust and released under Apache License 2.0. It comes with native GUI and GPU rendering, modal editing, built-in remote development, terminal and Language Server Protocol support. you can extend its features using plugins also. It is based on Druid, Xi-Editor’s Rope Science and Wgpu.
SciTE is a free and open source SCIntilla based Text Editor for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Scintilla is a source code editing and debugging component. You can use SciTE as a code editor to build programs and also use as normal test editor. it comes with syntax styling, error indicators, folding, code completion and call tips. You can export you document as html,xml,pdf,latext and rtf. It comes with more than 30 programming language support like c, c++, c#, java, javascript, html, css, php, phython, ruby and VB.
jdTextEdit is a free and open source text code editor application for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It supports many programming languages like HTML, xml, sql, ruby, python, perl, markdown, java, java script, css, c# and C++. It comes with syntax highlighting, spell Checking, color picker, portable mode, bookmarks and Macros support. You can save your coding session and extend its support via plugins. It almost support all encodings methods.
Kate is a free and open source multi-document text editor for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It comes with code and text folding, syntax highlighting, dynamic word wrap, embedded console, plugin support, Spell checking, bracket matching, scripting support, CR, CRLF, LF newline, encoding conversion, find & replace, auto indentation and auto completion support. It is a KDE project and released under GNU Library General Public License v2.1 or later.
Skribisto is a free and open source text editor and writing software for Linux, Windows and macOS. It is based on popular Plume Creator and released under GNU General Public License v3.0 . Here you can organize your project with items, folders and add tags in your project. It comes with screen readers support, full screen distraction free mode, spellcheking, dark theme support and backup with multiple paths support.
Sublime Text is source code text editor Windows, mac and Linux. It is a proprietary software and written in C++ and Python. But you can use and try it for completely free for unlimited time. Currently no enforced time limit for this software evaluation time. The latest current version is Sublime Text 4 and it was officially released a few day back. Now it supports GPU rendering, native Apple Silicon processors M1 support, Linux ARM64 support, New smart context aware auto complete, improved syntax highlighting engine and TypeScript, JSX and TSX Support. And it provides Python based plugin API with Python console.
Could not save the file “/media/sf_virtualbox_shared/error”.
Unexpected error:Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy
When you save any text file in VirtualBox shared folder using Gedit Text editor in Ubuntu guest and Windows Host, after the initial saving you will get the above error, And you can’t save it. It is a old bug but still unsolved. virtualbox and Gnome
