Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

Best Free Linux Software & Open Source Reviews

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Category: Documents

Text Editor

vile – text editor that combines aspects of the Emacs and vi editors

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

vile is an open source text editor which retains the feel of vi(m). It is not a clone of vi. vile is free and open source software.

Read more
Text Editor

Kakoune – implements Vi’s “keystrokes as a text editing language” model

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Kakoune is an open source code editor that implements Vi’s “keystrokes as a text editing language” model. It has similarities with Vim.

Read more
Text Editor

LunarVim – IDE layer for Neovim

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. LunarVim ships with a sane default config for you to build upon. Free and open source software.

Read more
Text Editor

Lapce – fast and powerful code editor

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Lapce is a modern editor in Rust. It’s billed as “Quick from launch to every keystroke, and batteries included”.

Read more
Text Editor

Helix – post-modern modal text editor

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Helix is a Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor. This is free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

Read more
Text Editor

Neovim – continuation and extension of Vim

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Neovim is a Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. Neovim is an extension of Vim: feature-parity and backwards-compatibility are high priorities.

Read more
Emacs Software

ce – Chet’s Editor – small, fast, Emacs-like text editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

ce is a customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor similar to the GNU version of Emacs.

Read more
Emacs Software

mg – Micro Emacs derivative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mg is a Micro Emacs derivative. It’s a portable version of mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.

Read more
Emacs Software

Remacs – community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Remacs is a community-driven port of Emacs to Rust. Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

Read more
Emacs Software

JOE – Joe’s Own Editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

JOE or Joe’s Own Editor is a full-featured ncurses-based text editor for Unix systems.

Read more
Emacs Software

Zile – small Emacs alternative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Zile Is Lossy Emacs (Zile) is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

Read more
Hex Editor

hexer – multi-buffer editor for binary files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

The hexer utility is a multi-buffer editor for binary files for Unix-like systems that displays its buffer(s) as a hex dump.

Read more
Hex Editor

hyx – minimalistic hex editor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

hyx is a minimalistic but powerful hex editor. It’s written in less than 2,300 lines of C.

Read more
Hex Editor

hexedit – view and edit hexadecimal files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hexedit is a utility that lets you view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII.

Read more
Hex Editor

Bless – Hex Editor for Gtk#

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Bless is a binary (hex) editor, a program that enables you to edit files as a sequence of bytes.

Read more
Hex Editor

wxMEdit – fork of MadEdit

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

wxMEdit, a cross-platform Text/Hex Editor, is an improved version of the discontinued MadEdit.

Read more
Hex Editor

Fhex – full-featured hex editor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Fhex aims to be a lightweight yet full-featured hex editor. This project is based on qhexedit2, capstone and keystone engines.

Read more
Hex Editor

DHEX – ncurses-based hex editor with diff mode

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

DHEX is a hex editor. It can be used to alter individual bytes in large files. DHEX is a text-based program that uses ncurses.

Read more
Hex Editor

wxHexEditor – hex and disk editor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

wxHexEditor is a hex editor. wxHedEditor uses the wxWidgets GUI libraries. There is cross-platform support.

Read more
Hex Editor

GHex – hex editor for GNOME

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

GHex allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hexadecimal or ASCII.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 … 30 Next Posts»

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on 24 Best Free and Open Source Console Linux File Managers
  • pigeonskiller on 24 Best Free and Open Source Console Linux File Managers
  • Steve Emms on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • exyone on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • Steve Emms on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • exyone on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • Eilidih Parris on 14 Lightweight Markup Languages
  • Pietro on 14 Lightweight Markup Languages
  • Steve Emms on 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases
  • pigeonskiller on 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

BOSGAME VTA-439 – AMD
Minisforum M2 Panther Lake
Minisforum MS-02 Mini Workstation
BOSGAME M7 285H – Intel
Minisforum MS-R1 Mini Workstation
Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
PELADN WO4 5600H – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel

SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • BashWrite – create a simple blog from Markdown files
  • pkgdown – R package that generates static HTML documentation websites
  • BSSG – static site generator written in Bash.
  • faire-detekt-rules – opinionated rule set for Detekt
  • Snikket Server – opinionated XMPP distribution
  • 11 Best Free and Open Source Bitcoin Clients
  • La Suite Docs – collaborative writing platform
  • Carelo – dual-pane file manager for Linux
  • Ginger Wallet – Bitcoin-only desktop wallet
  • Minisforum MKB i83 wireless mechanical keyboard review

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.