Top Best Text Editors for Development:

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Parikshit,

Each operating system gives facility of the default text editor, like notepad in windows. But if you are a programmer or web developer, an advanced featured text editor or code editor is required. The advanced text editor with additional features helps you to write code faster and increase the productivity. In this article, we have described the list of top text editors for web development which you can download and use. These advanced featured text editors have features like syntax reference, syntax highlighting & folding, find & replace feature, and much more that make writing code much easier. The main advantage of the following text editors is open-source and free.

Following are the text editors listed with their features:

1.       Notepad++:

Notepad++ is open source code editor which supports different languages. The Notepad++ text editor is compatible with Microsoft Windows platform.
Few features of Notepad++ are explained below.

• Code Highlighting and Folding
• User Defined code Highlighting and Folding
• Provides functionality of Find and Replace
• Provides functionality of Drag-and-drop
• Can provide Document Map
• An additional feature of Auto-completion, Function completion and Function parameters hint are provided with this editor.
• Supports Multi-Document levels
• Provides Multi-View  for seeing multiple files at a time

 2.       Brackets

Brackets is a lightweight, free, powerful, open-source, and well-structured text editor that makes simpler to develop in the web browser. Brackets are discovered by Adobe and it helps to support web development to the next level. This editor works on cross platforms such as on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Some features of Brackets are given below.

• Brackets is Open source text editor
• Provides facility for Quick Editing
• It has highlighted Focused Visual Tools
• It provides Preprocessor Support
• Support Inline Editors
• It has additional feature of Live Preview 

3.       Atom

Atom is free, open-source, and easily hackable source code editor. It is advanced and approachable with which you can customise as per your requirements. Atom supports platforms such as OS X, Windows, or Linux.
Some features of Atom are given below.

• Supports Cross-platform editing
• Facility of  auto completion of text and functions
• Additional facility of File system browser
• Supports Multiple panes
• Find and replace functionality for text/numbers etc.

Sublime Text

Sublime Text supports cross-platform, markup, and prose and is open source text editor. It supports different programming languages and markup languages. Also, its functionality can be modified by using user’s plugins. Sublime Text supports or compatible with  OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Some features of Sublime Text given give below.

• Show good folder structure of project and gives facility to Go to Anything
•  Provides facility to open Multiple Selections
• Command Palette
• Distraction Free Mode
• Split Editing
• Instant Project Switch
• Plugin API
• Customize