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csvi – terminal CSV editor

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

CSVI is a terminal-based CSV editor for UNIX-like systems (including Linux) and Windows.

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Photo Metadata

8 Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

A metadata editor is computer software which allows users to view and edit metadata tags interactively and save them in the graphics file.

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Text Editing

Marknote – create rich text notes

September 28, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks.

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Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

7 Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

January 29, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

An HTML editor is computer software for creating web pages.

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Text Editor

vis – vi-like editor based on Plan 9’s structural regular expressions

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

vis seeks to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient editor combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam.

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Text Editor

Textosaurus – simple cross-platform UTF-8 text editor based on Qt and Scintilla

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Textosaurus is a simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

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Text Editor

micro – modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.

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Text Editor

medit – text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

medit is an open source programming and around-programming text editor. It’s a GTK text editor released under an open source license.

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Text Editor

Howl – fast and lightweight editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Howl is a general purpose, fast and lightweight open source editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface.

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IDE

Geany – fast and lightweight IDE

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Scintilla.

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Document Management Systems

Kile – integrated LaTeX editing environment

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Kile is a user-friendly LaTeX source editor and TeX shell for KDE. LaTeX is a text-processing system derived from TeX.

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Document Management Systems

Texmaker – cross-platform LaTeX editor

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Texmaker is a LaTeX editor that integrates many tools into a single application .It has an interface which is reminiscent of Kile.

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Document Management Systems

TeXmacs – scientific word processor

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYW scientific word processor. Produce structured documents of high typographical quality.

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Document Management Systems

LyX – TeX/LaTeX document processor

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

LyX is an advanced document processor. LyX is very popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes.

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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to CorelDRAW

February 20, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor. What are the best free and open source alternatives available for Linux?

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Image Compression Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Sketchbook

December 5, 2021 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Autodesk Sketchbook is a raster graphics software app intended for expressive drawing and concept sketching. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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CudaText

CudaText – cross-platform text editor

October 29, 2021 Lee Walker Programming, Reviews

CudaText is a versatile, extensible free and open source editor with a design reminiscent of Sublime Text. Here’s our review.

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Pure Writer

Best Free Android Apps: Pure Writer – plain text editor

June 19, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android

Pure Writer is a plain text editor. The editor is designed to be minimalistic and tries to help the writer focus on writing content.

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Boop-GTK

Boop-GTK – scriptable scratchpad for developers

February 17, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Boop-GTK is is promoted as a scratchpad designed to help developers work with code snippets.

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Markdown

Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor

September 23, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.

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