Open Source Text Editors

The Wizard Desktop is a set of simple applications that maintain a common user experience along with a simple window manager. The underlying framework will allow a single-user multiple network connected computers paradigm. Communications between the framework and applications are standardized, programs can be swapped out at will. Please visit the OpenHub site.

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.

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.

This is free Java desktop application to keep your note in safe from others using the Encrypting Decrypting symmetric key algorithm, it's easy to transfer your note form source to another in confidential manner.

MSLB is a crossplatform Simple Logbook program / application to write work logs or even a diary. MSLB can also use a bunch of presets that you can add with a simple doubleclick :) Logs get saved in a simple folder system. And its all portable.

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.

VID stands for VI Distributed. It's a distributed ncurses editor. Roughly speaking, multiple users can edit the same file at the same time. Exclusion mechanism with '1 line' as granularity. Token based algorithm for line/file/saving locking.

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.

ZEE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB (see "Zee Web Site" link).

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.