Text editors remain a controversial area. Here are our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.
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Category: Documents
Dawn – lightweight document drafter
Dawn is a distraction-free writing environment with live markdown rendering.
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Twig – terminal JSON viewer and YAML viewer
Twig is a high-performance Terminal JSON Viewer and YAML Viewer, designed to replace cat, less, and jq for interactive data exploration.
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treemd – modern Markdown viewer
treemd is a modern markdown viewer combining tree-based navigation with interactive TUI. It’s like tree but interactive.
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Hextazy – colorful hexadecimal editor
Hextazy is a colorful hexadecimal editor, inspired by hexyl.
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mdfried – Markdown viewer
mdfried is a markdown viewer for the terminal that renders headers as Bigger Text than the rest.
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Bookokrat – terminal-based EPUB reader
Bookokrat is a terminal-based EPUB reader with a split-view library and reader, full MathML and image rendering
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Blip – MySQL monitor
Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.
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mdq – select and render specific elements in a Markdown document
mdq aims to do for Markdown what jq does for JSON: provide an easy way to zero in on specific parts of a document.
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ad – adaptable text editor
ad aims at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9’s Acme.
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Scan Tailor Advanced – interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages
ScanTailor Advanced merges the features of the ScanTailor Featured and ScanTailor Enhanced versions, brings new ones and fixes.
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Story Architect – reinventing the screenwriting software
Story Architect is a project created by the authors of an open source screenwriting tool Kit Scenarist.
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hexhog – configurable hex viewer and editor
hexhog offers basic hex editing features for files, such as editing/deleting/inserting bytes, as well as selecting and copy/pasting bytes.
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mq – jq-like command-tool for Markdown processing
mq is a markdown processor that can filter markdown nodes by using jq-like syntax.
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lumus – read PDF files directly in your terminal
Lumus is a command-line tool written in Go that allows you to read PDF files directly in your terminal.
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Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Sturm Reader
Sturm Reader is an ebook reader for Linux tailored for Ubuntu Touch and portable devices.
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KaTeX – fast math typesetting for the web
KaTeX is a fast, easy-to-use JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web.
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csvi – terminal CSV editor
CSVI is a terminal-based CSV editor for UNIX-like systems (including Linux) and Windows.
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Groonga – fulltext search engine and column store
Groonga is a fulltext search engine and column store. It lets you write high-performance applications that requires fulltext search.
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Fresh – terminal text editor
Fresh is a text editor engineered for speed. It delivers a near zero-latency experience, with text appearing instantly.
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