NEdit
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Sep 2, 2026first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I still use nedit pretty much daily whenever i want to note something down”
“I still miss NEdit.”
Linux user since around 2001, ex-Amigaon “Fine, I'll build my own text editor”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Fine, I'll build my own text editor 4 mentions
Data: nedit.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
Ah ah I'm also a NEdit fan. Still using XNEdit at times (the version that supports UTF-8, https://github.com/unixwork/xnedit ), because I've written so many small tools in its weird built-in language. For several years I've even hosted the nedit.org website :)
“Can't say I miss nedit. But it was alright for the mid nineties”
“I still use nedit pretty much daily whenever i want to note something down”
“I still miss NEdit.”