Open Source Text Processing Software

ECCE is a text editor designed by Hamish Dewar at Edinburgh University in the 1960's, which is still in daily use. Several historical implementations of ECCE exist in various languages. This implementation in portable C is for modern computers.

Boarded is a virtual on-screen keyboard for the X11 window system. It's intended to be used on mobile devices without a hardware keyboard. It allows you to design your own keyboard layouts, specifying key positioning/grouping and setting own colors.

Tabfmt is a command line utility to format tabular data. It reads lines from one or more files or from standard input, breaks the lines into fields given a set of field delimiters, and prints a table with constant-width columns to standard output.

A UNIX Shell script wrapper for the VI editor. It is recommended VIB be used as an alias for the VI editor. VIB creates backups of any files edited using VI to a specified location while maintaining X backup revisions, and keeping a revision history of who made changes and when to a master log. VIB is Ideal in environments where you have multiple users logging into a UNIX system and you wish to keep track of whom is modifying files. For example, VIB could be 'aliased' in all new user shell accounts, so that when they edit a file using "vi", a log entry will be generated, and a backup copy of the file with their username will also be notated. The goal of VIB is to assist with tracking who modified what file, when on a UNIX/Linux systsm.

What to quickly know the length of a string? Convert to upper or lower case? We introduce... strtools. The command line utility that should be included in all operating systems. A useful wrapper for programming, debugging and scripting.