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
Notepad++ Plugin Manager
The nppPluginManager repository contains the legacy Plugin Manager for Notepad++, a tool that once allowed users to easily install, update, and remove plugins within the editor. It relied on a centrally hosted XML file that listed available plugins, which the manager compared against those already installed. Since 2019, however, the plugin is no longer actively maintained, and the supporting web service that provided plugin lists has been discontinued. Users are now encouraged to rely on Notepad++’s built-in plugin solution instead of this deprecated tool. 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This repository is no longer maintained and is kept for archival purposes.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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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GtkSpell provides MSWord-style highlighting of misspelled words in a GtkText widget. Also, right-clicking a misspelled word pops up a menu of suggested replacements. GtkSpell can easily be added to Gtk projects.
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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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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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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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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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Geany
A fast and lightweight IDE
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages. -
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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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Notepads
A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design
I have been waiting long enough for a modern Windows 10 notepad app to come before I decided to create one myself. Don’t get me wrong, Notepad++, VS Code, and Sublime are great text editors. I have used them all and I will continue to use them in the future. However, they are either too heavy or look less appealing. There are times that I just wanted to use Windows Notepad for things like writing notes or editing config files. So I decided to create a win32 notepad replacement here and try to give it a modern look and feel. Most importantly, it has to be blazingly fast and appeal to everyone. -
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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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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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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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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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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.
