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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Apache OpenOffice
The free and Open Source productivity suite
Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation. -
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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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LibreOffice
A free and powerful office suite
LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice. Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) – development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. Your documents will look professional and clean, regardless of their purpose: a letter, a master thesis, a brochure, financial reports, marketing presentations, technical drawings and diagrams. LibreOffice makes your work look great while you focus on the content, thanks to its powerful styles system and structuring tools. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard (OpenDocument Format). -
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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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QPrompt
Personal teleprompter software for all video makers.
Free teleprompter software for all video creators. Built with ease of use, fast performance, control accuracy, and cross-platform support in mind. QPrompt works with studio teleprompters and tablet teleprompters, cellphones, and webcams. It was also designed for use in video conferences. -
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Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit
Localization tools built by localizers for localizers
Tools for localization: - Pootle: web based translation management system. - Virtaal: Computer Aided Translation (CAT) tool. - Translate Toolkit: QA, format conversion and support (PO, Java .properties, OpenOffice, Mozilla, XLIFF, TMX, TBX, CSV, Qt .ts). -
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QXmlEdit
Simple XML editor and XSD viewer
QXmlEdit is a simple XML editor written in qt. Its main features are unusual data visualization modes, nice XML manipulation and presentation and it is multi platform. It can split very big XML files into fragments, compare XML and XSD files, and has a graphical XSD viewers. Project site: http://qxmledit.org Source code hosted at GitHub (moved from Google Code) https://github.com/lbellonda/qxmledit Report issues at: https://github.com/lbellonda/qxmledit/issues Discussion group: https://groups.google.com/group/qxmledit-discuss -
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FCKeditor
FCKeditor (retired)
FCKeditor is the previous version of CKEditor and has been discontinued after version 2. The new CKEditor is redesigned from the ground up, offering more WYSIWYG text editing features, enhanced security and better integration. Don’t force yourself with retro FCKeditor. Switch to the new, cool CKEditor at ckeditor.com -
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Canorus
Music score editor
Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond -
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zNotes
Simple lightweight crossplatform application for notes managment
Simple lightweight crossplatform application for notes managment. Written in the C++ programming language using Qt framework. When I migrated from XFCE, I could not find a program simular to xfce4-Notes-plugin, so I created this program. Has versions for -
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Poedit
Translations Editor
************************************************************ THIS PROJECT MOVED. DO NOT DOWNLOAD OLD VERSIONS FROM HERE See http://poedit.net/download for the latest & greatest. ************************************************************ -
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Addons for any applications supporting the extension mechanism introduced by Mozilla products: Firefox, Thunderbird, Komodo, NVU, Mozilla Suite
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htmlarea
Small, powerful, full featured WYSIWYG editor
HTMLArea 4 is a browser based WYSIWYG editor that easily replaces the TEXTAREA in your web pages. It is written in JavaScript, and suitable for use in any modern web browser, and any page on your web site. Current version is 4.0-2016-08-29 -
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BinEd Binary/Hex Editor
Binary / hex editor and component written in Java
Free and open source hex editor written in Java. This is standalone desktop app, library for Java applications as well as variants for Java IDEs are also available. -
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This is the home of the old MindTouch Platform and Core. This project was turned over to the community in 2010. Please visit www.MindTouch.com for the most up to date version of MindTouch--software that accelerates customer success. More info on the old Core and Platform: http://mndt.ch/oss-dep Thanks for your interest and for making the old MindTouch open source one of the most popular (top 5) open source projects in the world from 2007-2010. Some key terms commonly associated with this project are: customer support, self service support, customer success center, help center, enterprise wiki, etc
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Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation.
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net2ftp
net2ftp is a web-based FTP client
net2ftp is a web based FTP client. Use it at http://www.net2ftp.com or install it on your own web server (PHP needed, MySQL optional). Features: browse, copy/move/delete files and directories recursively, upload, download, edit, view code with syntax highlighting, zip and unzip. net2ftp now also supports FTP over SSH. -
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NoteCase is portable (Linux, Win32) hierarchical notes manager (aka outliner) coded in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. Project is inactive as of 2008/12/09, read more at: http://factoriel.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
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Jubler is a tool for editing text-based subtitles. It can be used an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct, and refine existing subtitles. NOTE: this project has moved to GitHub. Please download the binaries from https://github.com/teras/Jubler/releases
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CNC Editor - The goal of this project will be to design text oriented editor for CNC machines with simulation toolpath.
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TEA is a text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and the syntax highlighting. There are two branches of TEA: Qt-based and GTK-based.
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User friendly editor for writing blog articles in HTML
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EBookME is Java application (GUI, console and/or applet) which generates Java ME ebooks (JAD, JAR) from input text files. Generated books can be readed on mobile phones which support Java (MIDP 1.0).
