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Text Editor

Fresh – terminal text editor

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Fresh is a text editor engineered for speed. It delivers a near zero-latency experience, with text appearing instantly.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

facsimile – terminal text editor

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

facsimile is a terminal text editor written in Fortran. It offers VSCode-style keybindings.

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Emacs Software

6 Best Free and Open Source Configuration Frameworks for Emacs

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Emacs configuration frameworks take the vanilla Emacs and add their own configuration.

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Text Editor

Scratchmark – organized Markdown editor

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

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

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. This type of software has many different uses.

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Text Editor

moe – command-line editor inspired by Vim

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

moe is a command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.

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Text Editor

pyvim – implementation of Vim in Python

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pyvim is an implementation of Vim in Python. There are no C extensions.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Janus – simple notepad

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Janus is a simple native Linux notepad meant for text editing. It supports UTF-8 and binary data.

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Text Editor

xvi – portable multi-file text editor

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

xvi is a portable multi-window version of the UNIX editor ‘vi’, derived from “STEVIE” in the 1980s.

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Text Editor

Katvan is an editor for Typst files

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

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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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Kibi is a tiny text editor

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more

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Text Editor

Scriptorium – write short stories and novels

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Scriptorium is a text editor coupled with a plotting tool and a formatting tool.

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Text Editor

Mini Text is a very small and basic text editor

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Mini Text is an extremely simple Gtk4/Libadwaita app that shows a text view to copy/paste and edit text.

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Text Editor

Webkit Word is a text editor built with GTK4/Libadwaita

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Using the WebKit rendering engine, it offers powerful text editing capabilities in a clean, intuitive interface.

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Emacs Software

8 Best Free and Open Source Emacs-Like Text Editors

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

typobuster – lightweight text editor

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

typobuster is a simplified text editor with a wide selection of transformations and automatic correction of common typos.

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Text Editor

Orbiton – configuration-free text editor and IDE

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Orbiton is a configuration-free little text editor and IDE for the terminal.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Jottr – simple text editor

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Jottr is a cross-platform plain text editor focused on usability and speed, designed for writers, journalists and researchers.

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Text Editor

Pulsar – hyper-hackable text editor

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Pulsar is a community-led hyper-hackable Text Editor. It’s forked from the abandoned Atom text editor. It’s built on Electron.

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Markdown

Norka – continuous text editing

September 25, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Norka is designed to provide a hassle-free text-writing experience. Don’t worry about saving files, complex markup, or accidentally deleted notes.

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