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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kate – multi document editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

The KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is a source code editor developed by the KDE free software community.

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Mousepad – simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.

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Notes – distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.

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HedgeDoc – create real-time collaborative markdown notes

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

HedgeDoc is a real-time, multi-platform collaborative markdown note editor.

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