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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Nota – browse, create, and edit text files

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Nota is a very small text editor that lets you browse, create and edit text files. It’s designed for desktop and mobile computers.

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git-of-theseus – analyze how a Git repo grows over time

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-of-theseus is a collection of scripts to analyze Git repositories.

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Text Editing

FeatherPad – lightweight Qt plain-text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment.

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gedit – GNOME text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

gedit is a small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME environment. gedit supports most standard editing features.

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git-machete – robust tool that simplifies your git workflows

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-machete is a robust tool that simplifies your git workflows.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Airpad – basic GUI text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Airpad is a basic, generic graphical text editor. It has all of the functionalities one would expect.

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Text Editor

xed – small and lightweight text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

xed is a small and lightweight text editor. xed supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your typical text editor.

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Kate – multi document editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

The KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is a source code editor developed by the KDE free software community.

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OCR Tools

dpScreenOCR – software to recognize text on screen

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

dpScreenOCR is a program to recognize text on the screen. Powered by Tesseract, it supports more than 100 languages.

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Git Clients

git-fuzzy – interactive git with the help of fzf

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-fuzzy is CLI interface to git that relies heavily on fzf.

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Text Editing

Mousepad – simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.

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Security

sqlmap – penetration testing tool

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Security

sqlmap is a penetration testing tool that automates detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers.

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Security

XSSer – detect, exploit and report XSS vulnerabilities

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Security

XSSer is an automatic framework to detect, exploit and report XSS vulnerabilities in web-based applications.

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Security

simple fuzzer – a simple fuzzer

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

simple fuzzer is exactly what it sounds like – a simple fuzzer.

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Security

Doona – network based protocol fuzzer

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Doona is a fork of the Bruteforce Exploit Detector Tool (BED). It adds a significant number of features/changes.

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plotting-software

PyVista – 3D plotting and mesh analysis

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

PyVista offers 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK).

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Git Clients

git-filter-repo – quickly rewrite git repository history

July 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git filter-repo is a versatile tool for rewriting history.

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plotting-article

Plots – simple graph plotting app for GNOME

July 8, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

Plots is a graph plotting app for GNOME. Plots makes it easy to visualise mathematical formulae.

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Git Clients

git-chglog – CHANGELOG generator implemented in Go

July 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-chglog is a CHANGELOG generator. Anytime, anywhere, Write your CHANGELOG.

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Security

socat – multipurpose relay (SOcket CAT)

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

socat is a flexible, multi-purpose relay tool. Its purpose is to establish a relationship between two data sources,

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