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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.

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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.

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Email

Cone – COnsole Newsreader And Emailer

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Cone stands for “console newsreader and emailer. Cone is a text-based mail client, which seamlessly handles multiple POP3, IMAP accounts.

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Vmail – Vim interface to Gmail

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Vmail is a Vim interface to Gmail. Vmail uses Vim autocompletion to help you auto-complete email addresses.

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Email

Wanderlust – mail / news reader

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Wanderlust is a mail/news management system with IMAP4rev1 support for Emacs. Wanderlust is free and open source software.

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aerc – email client that runs in your terminal

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

aerc is an email client for your terminal. aerc optionally supports notmuch. The program is free and open source.

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Email

alot – terminal-based mail user agent based on the notmuch mail indexer

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

alot is a terminal-based mail user agent based on the notmuch mail indexer. alot is free and open source software.

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nmail – ncurses mail

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

nmail is a terminal-based email client with a user interface similar to alpine / pine. It’s written in C++ and MIT licensed.

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Email

Himalaya – CLI email client written in Rust

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

The aim of Himalaya is to extract the email logic into a simple CLI API that can be used directly from the terminal, from scripts, from UIs.

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Email

Mutt – email client

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems.

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Email

mu4e – emacs-based email client based on mu

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Built on top of mu are some extensions, including mu4e, which is a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside Emacs.

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Email

Sup – console-based email client

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Sup is an open source curses threads-with tags style email client. It presents a list of threads, which are each hierarchical collections email messages.

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Email

NeoMutt – fork of Mutt with added features

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

NeoMutt is a command line mail reader. It’s a fork of Mutt with added features. NeoMutt is a project of projects.

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tcsh – C shell with file name completion and command line editing

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

tcsh is a C shell with file name completion and command line editing. tcsh is free and open source software.

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Xonsh – Python-powered shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. Xonsh is meant for experts and novices alike.

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Oils – new UNIX shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Oil is a new Unix shell. It runs your existing shell scripts, and it’s a new language for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

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Elvish – expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Elvish is an expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell, combined into one seamless package.

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dune – a shell by the beach

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

dune is a shell that’s like a little operating system in itself. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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DASH – POSIX compliant shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of sh aiming to be as small as possible. DASH is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of ash.

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fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Uncategorized, Utilities

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and other operating systems.

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