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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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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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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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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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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Notepad

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Notepad is a simple text editor; it creates and edits plain text documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Text Editor

GNOME Text Editor – simple text editor that focuses on session management

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Text Editor is a simple text editor that focuses on session management.

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Text Editor

CorePad – simple lightweight but powerful text editor

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

CorePad is a document editor for C Suite, a minimalistic application suite to cover all the basic day to day tasks.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Pluma – text editor for the MATE desktop environment

July 13, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Pluma is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment. It started as a fork of Gedit.

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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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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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Text Editor

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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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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