The app-editors category contains text editors.
| adie | Text editor based on the FOX Toolkit |
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| aee | An easy to use text editor |
| amyedit | AmyEdit is a LaTeX editor |
| atom | A hackable text editor for the 21st Century |
| beaver | Beaver is an Early AdVanced EditoR |
| bluefish | A GTK HTML editor for the experienced web designer or programmer |
| bvi | Display-oriented editor for binary files, based on the vi texteditor |
| curses-hexedit | full screen curses hex editor (with insert/delete support) |
| dav | A minimal console text editor |
| dhex | ncurses-based hex-editor with diff mode |
| diakonos | A Linux editor for the masses |
| e3 | Very tiny editor in ASM with emacs, pico, wordstar, and vi keybindings |
| editra | Multi-platform text editor supporting over 50 programming languages |
| ee | An easy to use text editor. A subset of aee |
| elvis | A vi/ex clone |
| emacs | The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor |
| emacs-vcs | The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor |
| emact | EmACT, a fork of Conroy's MicroEmacs |
| ersatz-emacs | A very minimal imitation of the famous GNU Emacs editor |
| fe | A small and easy to use folding editor |
| focuswriter | Fullscreen and distraction-free word processor |
| fte | Lightweight text-mode editor |
| gedit | A text editor for the GNOME desktop |
| gedit-plugins | Official plugins for gedit |
| ghex | GNOME hexadecimal editor |
| ghostwriter | Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free markdown editor |
| gnome-latex | Integrated LaTeX environment for GNOME |
| gummi | Simple LaTeX editor for GTK+ users |
| gvim | GUI version of the Vim text editor |
| hexcurse | ncurses based hex editor |
| hexedit | View and edit files in hex or ASCII |
| hteditor | A file viewer, editor and analyzer for text, binary, and executable files |
| jasspa-microemacs | Jasspa Microemacs |
| jed | Console S-Lang-based editor |
| jedit | Programmer's editor written in Java |
| jext | A text editor written in Java |
| joe | A free ASCII-Text Screen Editor for UNIX |
| jove | Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs, a light emacs-like editor without LISP bindings |
| juffed | QScintilla-based tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting |
| jupp | Portable version of Joe's Own Editor |
| kakoune | Selection-oriented code editor inspired by vim |
| kile | Latex Editor and TeX shell based on KDE Frameworks |
| le | Terminal text editor |
| leafpad | Simple GTK2 text editor |
| leo | Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines |
| levee | Really tiny vi clone, for things like rescue disks |
| lpe | a lightweight programmers editor |
| mg | MicroGnuEmacs, a port from the BSDs |
| moe | A powerful and user-friendly console text editor |
| mousepad | GTK+-based editor for the Xfce Desktop Environment |
| nano | GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality |
| ne | the nice editor, easy to use for the beginner and powerful for the wizard |
| nedit | Multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System |
| neovim | Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility. |
| ng | Emacs like micro editor Ng -- based on mg2a |
| notepadqq | Notepad++-like editor for Linux |
| nvi | Vi clone |
| okteta | Hex editor by KDE |
| padre | Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment |
| pluma | Pluma text editor for the MATE desktop |
| qemacs | QEmacs is a very small but powerful UNIX editor |
| qhexedit2 | Hex editor library, Qt application written in C++ with Python bindings |
| qxmledit | Simple Qt-based XML editor |
| retext | Simple editor for Markdown and reStructuredText |
| sandy | an ncurses text editor with an easy-to-read, hackable C source |
| scite | A very powerful, highly configurable, small editor with syntax coloring |
| shed | Simple Hex EDitor |
| sublime-text | Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose |
| tea | Small, lightweight Qt text editor |
| teco | Classic TECO editor, Predecessor to EMACS |
| ted | X-based rich text editor |
| uemacs-pk | uEmacs/PK is an enhanced version of MicroEMACS |
| vile | VI Like Emacs -- yet another full-featured vi clone |
| vim | Vim, an improved vi-style text editor |
| vim-core | vim and gvim shared files |
| vis | modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor |
| wily | An emulation of ACME, Plan9's hybrid window system, shell and editor |
| wxhexeditor | A cross-platform hex editor designed specially for large files |
| xemacs | highly customizable open source text editor and application development system |
| xmlcopyeditor | XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor |
| xvile | VI Like Emacs -- yet another full-featured vi clone |
| yudit | Free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices |
| zile | Zile is a small Emacs clone |