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abiword Open Source cross-platform word processor
abiword-plugins Open Source cross-platform word processor
ait Small but mighty GNU Emacs style editor
beav Binary Editor And Viewer, a full featured binary file editor
beaver Lightweight GTK+2 text editor with syntax highlighting
biew Binary viewer/editor
bvi Vi-like editor for binary files
cask (V) Project management tool for Emacs
ce Chet's Emacs: small, fast emacs-like editor
codeblocks Open source, cross platform, free C++ IDE
codelite Cross platform C/C++/PHP and Node.js IDE written in C++
cooledit Full-featured text editor
dasher Easy typing without using keyboard
deforaos-editor DeforaOS desktop text editor
dhex Curses-based hex-editor with diff mode
dit Console text editor that you already know how to use
dte Small and easy to use console text editor
ecrire (V) Simple text editor for the enlightenment desktop
ed GNU version of line-oriented text editor
edt Text editor which emulates the VAX VMS EDT editor
edt-o3one Text editor from VMS
ee EasyEdit, a classic curses text editor
elvis Clone of vi with regex-search, hex-edit, HTML/LaTeX preview
elvis-x11 Clone of vi with regex-search, hex-edit, HTML/LaTeX preview (X11)
em Early V6 Unix line-based editor for mortals
emacs Meta-package for installing the preferred Emacs version
emacs-nox11 Meta-package for installing the preferred Emacs version
emacs-packages Meta-package for the GNU Emacs lisp packages
emacs20 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs21 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs21-nox11 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs26 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs26-nox11 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs27 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs27-nox11 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs28 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs28-nox11 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs29 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs29-nox11 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs30 GNU editing macros (editor)
emacs30-nox11 GNU editing macros (editor)
ever-note-mode (V) Refer and edit Evernote notes directly from Emacs
ex Berkeley vi 3.7
fe Folding editor
feathernotes Lightweight Qt6 hierarchical notes-manager
featherpad Lightweight Qt6 plain-text editor
fileobj Curses based hex editor with vi interface
focuswriter Simple, distraction-free writing environment
gate Lightweight text editor
gedit Lightweight GNOME UTF-8 text editor
ghex Hex editor
gice Powerful C text editor with advanced features
gnuserv Improved version of emacsserver for GNU Emacs
gobby Multi-Platform Collaborative Editor
gtg (V) Personal organizer for GNOME
gtranslator Gettext po file editor for the GNOME desktop environment
gummi LaTeX editor, written in C/GTK+
helix Modal editor inspired by kakoune / neovim
heme Fast and portable console hex editor
hexcurse Hexcurse is an ncurses-based console hexeditor written in C
hexedit To view and edit files in hexadecimal or ASCII
hexer Vi-like binary editor
hnb Hierarchical data organizer
javascript-mode Javascript major mode for Emacs
jde Full-featured Java editing mode for emacs
jed Extensible folding editor with Emacs/WordStar/EDT emulations
joe Joe's own editor
jove Small emacs-style editor, but lacks the LISP engine
jupp The portable version of joe from the MirOS project
kakoune Experimental modal code editor
kate KDE Advanced Text Editor
kibi Text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust
kile LaTeX source editor - TeX shell - Gnuplot front end
kilo Small text editor in less than 1K LOC
kiro-editor Terminal UTF-8 text editor written in Rust
l3afpad Simple text editor forked from Leafpad, supports GTK+ 3.x
le Full screen text editor inspired by Norton Editor
leafpad Simple and light text editor using GTK+
leim20 Libraries of Emacs Input Methods
leim21 Libraries of Emacs Input Methods (for emacs21)
libinfinity Collaborative editing library
lpe Small and efficient programmer's editor for UNIX systems
lyx Document processor and graphical frontend for LaTeX
m17n-lib (V) Multilingualization library
manedit UNIX Manual (man, manpage) page editor, viewer, and browser for X11
manued Proofreading method implemented on Emacs
matlab-mode Matlab mode for Emacs
medit Programming and around-programming text editor
mflteco MFL clone of Tape Editor and COrrector
mg Small, fast, public domain EMACS style editor
mg2a Small, fast, public domain EMACS style editor
micro Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
mined Unicode text editor
mle Termbox-based text editor
moe Modeless, user-friendly console text editor
msedit Simple editor for simple needs
mule-ucs Another encoding conversion mechanism for Emacs
nano Small and friendly text editor (a free replacement for Pico)
ne Terminal text editor
neatvi Small vi/ex editor for editing bidirectional UTF-8 text
nedit Motif-based standard GUI style text editor
neovim Vim fork focused on extensibility and usability
neovim-qt (V) Neovim client library and GUI, in Qt5
ng Very light Emacs-clone with japanese support
novelwriter (V) Plain text editor for novels
nvi Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2 Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
OmegaT The translation memory (TM) application written in Java
p5-PPIx-EditorTools Utility methods and base class for manipulating Perl via PPI
PageEdit XHTML Visual Editor for ePubs
pico Text editor (ships with Pine), and Pine's text editing lib
pluma Small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for MATE
poedit Cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor
poke Extensible editor for structured binary data
py-jedi Autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors
qemacs Quick Emacs
qtcreator Cross-platform IDE for Qt and C++
redox Terminal-based text editor, built with MinUI
reovim Rust-powered neovim-like text editor
retext Simple but powerful editor for various markup formats
rox-edit Simple text editor for ROX
ruby-neovim (V) Ruby client to Neovim
sam Unix version of Rob Pike's editor for plan9
sandy Sandy is an ncurses text editor
sasm Simple crossplatform IDE for NASM, MASM, GAS and FASM
scite Source code editor
se Screen oriented version of ed
siag (V) Poor man's office suite with spreadsheet, word processor, etc
Sigil Multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor (for the ePub format)
speedbar Directory and code browser for emacs
ssam UTF-8-aware stream editor like sed(1), using the sam command set
tamago CJK characters inputting system for emacs + leim
tea Powerful, easy-to-use text editor
ted X11 based WordPad-like word processor
ted-bg Bulgarian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-cs Czech spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-da Danish spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-de German spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-en-gb British English spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-es Spanish spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-et Estonian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-fr French spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-hr Croatian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-it Italian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-nl Dutch spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-no Norwegian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-pl Polish spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-pt Portugese spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-ru Russian spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-sk Slovak spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-sl Slovene spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
ted-sv Swedish spelling dictionary for the Ted word processor
tepl4 GtkSourceView-based text editors and IDE helper library
TeXmacs GNU TeXmacs (free scientific text editor)
texmaker LaTeX editor and front end
texstudio Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents
TextEdit (V) GNUstep text editor
texworks Simple TeX front-end program
tp-note Minimalistic note taking and template system
tweak Efficient hex editor
uemacs emacs key sequences compatible full screen editor
ve NTHU-CS Maple BBS 2.36 BBS-like editor
vigor Excessive online help version of nvi
vile VI Like Emacs. a vi workalike, with many additional features
vilearn Online vi tutorial, from basic to advanced
vim Vim editor (vi clone) without GUI
vim-gtk2 Vim editor (vi clone) with X11 GTK2 GUI
vim-gtk3 Vim editor (vi clone) with X11 GTK3 GUI
vim-gtk4 Vim editor (vi clone) with GTK4 GUI
vim-lang Language files for the vim editor (vi clone)
vim-motif Vim editor (vi clone) with X11 Motif GUI
vim-share Data files for the vim editor (vi clone)
wily Unix/X11 clone of the Plan9 acme editor/environment
wordtsar Wordstar for the 21st Century
xcoral Multiwindow mouse-based text editor for X
xedit (V) Simple text editor for X
xemacs XEmacs text editor version 21.4
xemacs-current XEmacs text editor version 21.5.36
xemacs-current-nox11 *BETA* XEmacs text editor version 21.5 (no X11 support)
xemacs-nox11 XEmacs text editor version 21.4 (no x11 support)
xemacs-packages Common elisp packages for xemacs 21
xfce4-mousepad Xfce text editor
xjed Extensible folding editor + Emacs/WordStar/EDT emulations, X11 version
xnedit Fork of NEdit with Unicode support and antialiased text
xournalpp Take notes, sketch and annotate PDFs
xvile VI Like Emacs, X11 version -- a fully X aware vi work-alike
xwpe Programming environment for UNIX systems
yed Graph editor (UML, Flowcharts, BPMN and more)
yudit Unicode Text Editor
zile Emacs-like text editor
zim Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop