aretext is a minimalist text editor with vim-compatible key bindings.
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BigEdit – streaming TUI editor
BigEdit is a streaming TUI editor for very large files. Edit multi-gigabyte files without loading them into memory.
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21 Best Free and Open Source Linux Markdown Editors
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Vim-Like Text Editors
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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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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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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facsimile – terminal text editor
facsimile is a terminal text editor written in Fortran. It offers VSCode-style keybindings.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Configuration Frameworks for Emacs
Emacs configuration frameworks take the vanilla Emacs and add their own configuration.
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Scratchmark – organized Markdown editor
Scratchmark is an organized Markdown editor designed for note keeping and writing. It’s intended to become a spiritual successor to ThiefMD. This is free and open source software. Website: github.com/sevonj/scratchmark Support: Developer: Sevonj License: GNU General Public License v3.0 Scratchmark
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16 Free and Open Source Simple GUI Based Linux Text Editors
A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. This type of software has many different uses.
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moe – command-line editor inspired by Vim
moe is a command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.
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pyvim – implementation of Vim in Python
pyvim is an implementation of Vim in Python. There are no C extensions.
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Janus – simple notepad
Janus is a simple native Linux notepad meant for text editing. It supports UTF-8 and binary data.
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xvi – portable multi-file text editor
xvi is a portable multi-window version of the UNIX editor ‘vi’, derived from “STEVIE” in the 1980s.
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Katvan is an editor for Typst files
Katvan is a bare-bones editor for the Typst typesetting system, designed for working with documents whose primary language is written from right to left.
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Kibi is a tiny text editor
Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more
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Scriptorium – write short stories and novels
Scriptorium is a text editor coupled with a plotting tool and a formatting tool.
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Mini Text is a very small and basic text editor
Mini Text is an extremely simple Gtk4/Libadwaita app that shows a text view to copy/paste and edit text.
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Webkit Word is a text editor built with GTK4/Libadwaita
Using the WebKit rendering engine, it offers powerful text editing capabilities in a clean, intuitive interface.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Emacs-Like Text Editors
The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.
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