Open Source Linux Text Editors
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View 39 business solutionsBrowse free open source Text Editors and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Text Editors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Notepad++ Plugin Manager (old repo)
Notepad++ Plugin Manager [deprecated - now on github]
This project is the old location for the plugin list for Notepad++ Plugin Manager. Please use https://github.com/bruderstein/npppluginmanager for any issues and current code -
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CudaText
Cross-platform text and code editor
Cross-platform code editor, with syntax highlight for 300+ languages. Has lite interface with tabs. Has JSON config files instead of the options dialog. Supports Python extensions. Documentation wiki: http://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText -
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KDiff3
A graphical text difference analyzer
This repository is no longer maintained and is kept for archival purposes. See https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdiff3 for the newest code and https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/ for release bundles. All bugs should be filed at bugs.kde.org. KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool with integrated editor. It can also compare and merge directories. Platform-independant. -
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jEdit Plugin Central is the primary online repository of plugins for the jEdit text editor. In conjunction with this repository, the integrated Plugin Manager allows jEdit users to install, upgrade, and remove plugins without leaving the editor.
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OmegaT - multiplatform CAT tool
The free computer aided translation (CAT) tool for professionals
OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects. -
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KompoZer
A wysiwyg HTML editor that uses the Mozilla Composer codebase
KompoZer is a wysiwyg HTML editor using the Mozilla Composer codebase. As Nvu's development has been stopped in 2005, KompoZer fixes many bugs and adds a few useful features. -
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XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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MarkText
A simple and elegant markdown editor
MarkText is an MIT licensed open source project, and the latest version will always be downloadable for free from the GitHub release page. MarkText is still in development, and its development is inseparable from all sponsors. Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience. Support CommonMark Spec, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec and selective support Pandoc markdown. Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX), front matter and emojis. Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency. Output HTML and PDF files. Various themes: Cadmium Light, Material Dark etc. Various editing modes: Source Code mode, Typewriter mode, Focus mode. Paste images directly from clipboard. -
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jEdit
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java.
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture. -
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OOO Extras
Extra tools for OpenOffice under weak copyleft or other licenses
A space to store classic OOo dependencies that cannot be easily redistributed in Apache OpenOffice's Source tree. Initially this was meant for copyleft tarballs only but it is also pretty handy to mirror other file dependencies. -
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VSCodium
binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VSCode. Please note that some Visual Studio Code extensions have licenses that restrict their use to the official Visual Studio Code builds and therefore do not work with VSCodium. -
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Atom
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable and full-featured. It's also easily customizable- you can customize it to do anything and be able to use it productively without ever touching a config file. Atom is free to download and runs on Linux, OS X and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control. It is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell),a framework for building cross-platform apps using Chromium and Node.js. -
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ecode
Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware
ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor. The project comes as the first serious project using the eepp GUI, and it's currently being developed to improve the eepp GUI library as part of one of its main objectives. -
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Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex compounding or character encoding. Hunspell interfaces: Curses, Ispell compatible pipe interface, OpenOffice.org UNO module
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Scintilla is a free source code editing component which includes useful features such as syntax styling, error indicators, folding, code completion and call tips. The project includes SciTE (SCIntilla based Text Editor).
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Neovim
Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Neovim is a hyperextensible text editor based on Vim. It seeks to maximize usability and extensibility, simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. -
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Allows editing of any size file in hexadecimal, decimal and ASCII. A great tool that allows you to edit and analyze the contents for either the data or resource fork of any type of file. 68K, PPC and Carbon run on MacOS 7-9 and X.
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Swagger Editor
An editor designed for Swagger
Swagger Editor lets you edit Swagger API specifications in YAML inside your browser and to preview documentations in real time. Valid Swagger JSON descriptions can then be generated and used with the full Swagger tooling (code generation, documentation, etc). swagger-editor is a traditional npm module intended for use in single-page applications that are capable of resolving dependencies (via Webpack, Browserify, etc). swagger-editor-dist is a dependency-free module that includes everything you need to serve Swagger Editor in a server-side project, or a web project that can't resolve npm module dependencies. If you're building a single-page application, using swagger-editor is strongly recommended, since swagger-editor-dist is significantly larger. -
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Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.
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Kile LaTeX Editor
Kile is a feature-rich LaTeX editor
Kile is a LaTeX editor, a TeX shell that simplifies the creation of LaTeX documents. -
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PHPWord
PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents
PHPWord is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set of classes to write to and read from different document file formats. The current version of PHPWord supports Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML or OpenXML), OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument or ODF), and Rich Text Format (RTF). PHPWord is an open source project licensed under the terms of LGPL version 3. PHPWord is aimed to be a high quality software product by incorporating continuous integration and unit testing. Set document properties, e.g. title, subject, and creator. Create document sections with different settings, e.g. portrait/landscape, page size, and page numbering. Create header and footer for each sections, set default font type, font size, and paragraph style. Use UTF-8 and East Asia fonts/characters. Define custom font styles (e.g. bold, italic, color) and paragraph styles (e.g. centered, multicolumns, spacing) either as named style or inline in text. -
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Brackets
A modern, lightweight yet powerful text editor
Brackets is a free, modern open-source text editor made especially for Web Development. Written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets makes it easy for web designers and front-end developers to design in the browser. Its blend of visual tools ensures you get just the right amount of help when you want it without disrupting your creative process. It's the better, easier and more enjoyable way of writing code. -
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Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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gitnote
A modern note taking app based on GIT
A modern note-taking app based on GIT that does not require a local GIT environment. Supports thinking brain maps, helping us to visualize things in a visual way, such as recording and inspiring ideas. It supports multiple export methods. Grapheditor is diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER, and network diagrams. Using markdown, you can easily create a web version of the presentation and support export. Supports multiple images hosting uploads, automatically inserts into the notes, and provides API to freely customize your own image hosting. Supports multiple images hosting uploads. Supports markdown writing app for presentations. Supports diagram editor. Supports thinking brain map. Git is the world's most advanced distributed version control system. GitNote has all the features of Git and does not need to rely on the local GIT environment. -
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wxMEdit
wxMEdit, Cross-platform Text/Hex Editor, Improved Version of MadEdit
•Added automatically checking for updates •Added bookmark support •Added right-click context menu for each tab •Added purging histories support •Added selecting a line by triple click •Added FreeBASIC syntax file •Added an option to place configuration files into %APPDATA% directory under Windows •Improved support for Find/Replace •Improved Mac OS X support •Improved system integration under Windows •Improved encoding detection result •Improved Hex editing support •Added more choices for data format copying/pasting in Hex Area •Added new feature: Paste with Overwriting in Hex Area •Improved encoding support --Added grouping of encodings --Added new encodings: ISO-8859-16,CP1258,KOI8-R/U,GB18030,CP850,CP852,CP855,CP866,CP437 for ASCII-Art •Redesigned dialogs with Code::Blocks wxSmith •Updated translations --Added Spanish,Russian,German,Polish translation --Updated Chinese and Japanese translations •Other fixes and changes
