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pyvim – terminal Vim implementation using prompt_toolkit

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pyvim is a Python-based Vim-like terminal editor with split windows, tab pages, Pygments highlighting and Python code assistance.

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Janus – native Linux text and binary editor

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Janus is a native Linux notepad with UTF-8 and binary editing, optional syntax highlighting, printing and straightforward text editing.

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Text Editor

xvi – portable multi-window vi-compatible text editor

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

xvi is a small portable vi-style editor with multiple text windows, file switching and a familiar command-driven editing interface.

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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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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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Scriptorium – plan, write and publish manuscripts

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Scriptorium combines manuscript planning, scene-based writing and publishing with story elements, structure, preview, and EPUB export.

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Mini Text – tiny GTK4 scratchpad

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Mini Text is a tiny GTK4 scratchpad for quickly copying, pasting and editing transient text without opening or saving document files.

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Webkit Word – GTK4 rich-text editor using WebKit

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Webkit Word is a GTK4 rich-text editor using WebKit, with formatting, tables, images, links, multiple documents and export options.

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typobuster – text editor with cleanup transformations

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

typobuster is a lightweight GTK text editor focused on cleaning and transforming plain text, correcting common web publishing errors.

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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 – writing-focused text and Markdown editor

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Jottr is a writing-focused text editor with focus mode, snippets, autocomplete, integrated browsing, Markdown tools and extensible plugins.

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Text Editor

Pulsar – highly customisable Atom-derived text editor

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Pulsar continues Atom’s highly customisable editing model with packages, panes, project search, Git integration, snippets and IDE features.

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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 – session-focused text editor

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

GNOME Text Editor is a clean GTK editor with session recovery, syntax highlighting, regex search, spell checking and Vim keybindings.

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Text Editor

CorePad – lightweight text editor from C Suite

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

CorePad is a lightweight Qt text editor from C Suite with fast syntax highlighting for common programming and markup languages.

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Pluma – text editor for the MATE desktop

July 13, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Pluma is MATE’s lightweight text editor with tabbed editing, syntax highlighting, remote file access, search, printing and plugins.

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Nota – MauiKit text editor for desktop and mobile

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Nota is a MauiKit text editor for desktop and mobile Linux with tabs, syntax highlighting, autosave, an embedded console and plugins.

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FeatherPad – lightweight Qt plain-text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt text editor with tabs, syntax highlighting, regex search, spell checking, sessions and column selection.

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gedit – mature GNOME text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

gedit is a mature GNOME text editor with tabs, syntax highlighting, regex search, remote file editing, spell checking and plugins.

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