Open source text editors, hex editors, etc.
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Acme is a textual user interface for programmers by Rob Pike for Plan 9, with ports to Unix-like and Windows systems. [Open Source]
Cross platform text editor. Open source. Development environment, tooling platform and application framework.
A community led fork of the Atom text editor.
A programmer's HTML editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]
An open source text editor for web designers and front-end developers. Inspecting variables and control flow easy, even in asynchronous code.
The bvi editor is a display-oriented editor for binary files, based on the vi text editor.
Open source portable text editor written in C# with support for FTP, text encryption and syntax highlighting.
A folding text editor that allows to structure source code using folders. [Win32/Linux]
CSS editor featuring auto completion, syntax highlighting and syntax validation. (C, C++) [Linux]
GNU/Linux console-based text editor. Freely licensed under the GPL.
A free open source text editor for the Linux platform. The source code is available for download. The site also provides some information on how to develop an editor in the Linux console environment using the ncurses library.
Tcl and tix based editor.
Builds cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Graphical RSS and ATOM feed editor. [GPL].
An ascii text editor, primarily for programmers.
A folding text editor for programmers.
Lightweight but powerful text editor of the GNOME project.
An HTML/text editor using GTK+ and/or GNOME.
Clone of the Pico text editor with some enhancements. Available for Linux and DOS.
Editor for extensible, structured and WYSIWYG technical documents, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The site provides documentation, source and binary packages, a feedback section and additional links.
An online unmoderated discussion group.
Editor based on the VM/CMS editor XEDIT, using REXX as its macro language. Available for UNIX (including Linux) as text and X11 variants, OS/2, Windows, BeOS, QNX and Amiga.
Text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and Win9X/NT platforms. A macro language and modes for different editing tasks are available.
Some scripts for customising and enhancing the JED editor using the SLang scripting capabilities.
A text editor for KDE inspired by the popular Editor UltraEdit.
Live markdown editing with a distraction free mode. Encryption available. Windows, Mac, Linux and self hosted. Open source.
Disk editor for Linux, originally written to help recover deleted files. It has a simple ncurses interface that resembles an old version of Norton Disk Edit for DOS.
An editor with a small footprint, featuring extended regular expression search and replace a la emacs and vi and editing of binary files.
A plain text editor for use with Unix.
Editor with tabbed interface, configurable syntax highlighting, syntax folding, line numbering, multi-view, bookmarks and regular expression search and replace.
HTML Editor for GTK+/GNOME. It supports most of basic HTML. It features session management and preview using the GtkHTML widget.
A cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the file by hand.
Windows programming editor with an integrated Hex viewer/editor.
A community led text editor. Built on Electron. A fork from Atom.
Open source editor built for the modern web. Has an extensible architecture and an expressive API.
A text editor written in TCL/Tk, meant to be platform-independent while still using the host systems available features.
Download, screenshots and documentation of a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK and an editor based on this component.
A WYSIWYG Open Source XML editor for all major platforms that looks much like a conventional word processor and provides a single point access to distributed documents using the on-the-fly XSL-driven technology. (Unmaintained).
Text mode editor to supersede Borlands BC++ editor with a number of enhancements. Available for DOS and Linux.
Easy to use hex editor written for Unix/Linux using ncurses, with a friendly pico-style interface.
A Linux text editor (based on the GTK+ library) with functions and features for HTML and LaTeX authoring. The site offers downloads, and a history of the editor.
A free text editor that trys to address some of Notepad's limitations without getting too big. It is written in Delphi 5 using the TSynEdit components.
Text editing platform. TinyMCE and TinyDrive. Open source.
A cross-platform outline editor written in Tcl/Tk.
Has all the features of traditional Unix vi, plus the friendly and helpful Vigor paperclip assistant.
A text editor for X-window (UNIX only) , with a built-in C/C++/Java code browser and a C interpreter. Beside a screenshots and a features sections there is a download area and a page with instructions to build from the source.
Small editor with features for programmers.
An Emacs clone useful for small footprint installations (like on floppy disk) or quick editing sessions. Available are a description of the features, information about how to get Zile, links to the documentation and screenshots.
A community led fork of the Atom text editor.
A community led text editor. Built on Electron. A fork from Atom.
Open source editor built for the modern web. Has an extensible architecture and an expressive API.
Cross platform text editor. Open source. Development environment, tooling platform and application framework.
An open source text editor for web designers and front-end developers. Inspecting variables and control flow easy, even in asynchronous code.
Builds cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
A plain text editor for use with Unix.
A Linux text editor (based on the GTK+ library) with functions and features for HTML and LaTeX authoring. The site offers downloads, and a history of the editor.
Live markdown editing with a distraction free mode. Encryption available. Windows, Mac, Linux and self hosted. Open source.
A WYSIWYG Open Source XML editor for all major platforms that looks much like a conventional word processor and provides a single point access to distributed documents using the on-the-fly XSL-driven technology. (Unmaintained).
An online unmoderated discussion group.
A free open source text editor for the Linux platform. The source code is available for download. The site also provides some information on how to develop an editor in the Linux console environment using the ncurses library.
An editor with a small footprint, featuring extended regular expression search and replace a la emacs and vi and editing of binary files.
Small editor with features for programmers.
Editor with tabbed interface, configurable syntax highlighting, syntax folding, line numbering, multi-view, bookmarks and regular expression search and replace.
Text editing platform. TinyMCE and TinyDrive. Open source.
A text editor written in TCL/Tk, meant to be platform-independent while still using the host systems available features.
Acme is a textual user interface for programmers by Rob Pike for Plan 9, with ports to Unix-like and Windows systems. [Open Source]
GNU/Linux console-based text editor. Freely licensed under the GPL.
Graphical RSS and ATOM feed editor. [GPL].
A folding text editor that allows to structure source code using folders. [Win32/Linux]
Open source portable text editor written in C# with support for FTP, text encryption and syntax highlighting.
An Emacs clone useful for small footprint installations (like on floppy disk) or quick editing sessions. Available are a description of the features, information about how to get Zile, links to the documentation and screenshots.
Lightweight but powerful text editor of the GNOME project.
A cross-platform outline editor written in Tcl/Tk.
A cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the file by hand.
Text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and Win9X/NT platforms. A macro language and modes for different editing tasks are available.
A folding text editor for programmers.
Editor based on the VM/CMS editor XEDIT, using REXX as its macro language. Available for UNIX (including Linux) as text and X11 variants, OS/2, Windows, BeOS, QNX and Amiga.
Download, screenshots and documentation of a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK and an editor based on this component.
Easy to use hex editor written for Unix/Linux using ncurses, with a friendly pico-style interface.
An HTML/text editor using GTK+ and/or GNOME.
A text editor for KDE inspired by the popular Editor UltraEdit.
Disk editor for Linux, originally written to help recover deleted files. It has a simple ncurses interface that resembles an old version of Norton Disk Edit for DOS.
The bvi editor is a display-oriented editor for binary files, based on the vi text editor.
Clone of the Pico text editor with some enhancements. Available for Linux and DOS.
Windows programming editor with an integrated Hex viewer/editor.
Tcl and tix based editor.
A free text editor that trys to address some of Notepad's limitations without getting too big. It is written in Delphi 5 using the TSynEdit components.
HTML Editor for GTK+/GNOME. It supports most of basic HTML. It features session management and preview using the GtkHTML widget.
Has all the features of traditional Unix vi, plus the friendly and helpful Vigor paperclip assistant.
A programmer's HTML editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]
A text editor for X-window (UNIX only) , with a built-in C/C++/Java code browser and a C interpreter. Beside a screenshots and a features sections there is a download area and a page with instructions to build from the source.
Some scripts for customising and enhancing the JED editor using the SLang scripting capabilities.
An ascii text editor, primarily for programmers.
Editor for extensible, structured and WYSIWYG technical documents, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The site provides documentation, source and binary packages, a feedback section and additional links.
Text mode editor to supersede Borlands BC++ editor with a number of enhancements. Available for DOS and Linux.
CSS editor featuring auto completion, syntax highlighting and syntax validation. (C, C++) [Linux]
