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Atompermalink
License ReferenceGitHub built the text editor its developers always wanted. It is a tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Bracketspermalink
License ReferenceWith focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. It's crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Diakonospermalink
License ReferenceDiakonos is the Linux console text editor with a key mapping you practically already know. Easy to use and easy to configure, but potent in the hands of power users.
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- MIT/X11 License
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elm-abc-playerpermalink
License ReferenceThe elm-abc-player projects explore the possibilities of playing ABC notation directly in the browser within an Elm application. They include players, an editor, and a tutorial.
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- Revised BSD License
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FreeBSD eepermalink
License ReferenceThe command ee is a simple screen oriented text editor. It is always in text insertion mode unless there is a prompt at the bottom of the terminal, or a menu present (in a box in the middle of the terminal).
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- Simplified BSD License
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Kakounepermalink
License ReferenceKakoune is a Vim-inspired, faster (as in fewer keystrokes), multiple-selection, othogonally designed editor.
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- Unlicense
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Leopermalink
License ReferenceLeo is a PIM, IDE and outliner that accelerates the work flow of programmers, authors and web designers.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Light Tablepermalink
License ReferenceLight Table is the next generation of integrated development environment organized around behaviors, objects, and tags. It is elegant, lightweight, and beautifully designed so that your IDE is no longer cluttered.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Lime Textpermalink
License ReferenceLime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go. It aims to be a free and open source successor to Sublime Text.
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- Simplified BSD License
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Micropermalink
License ReferenceMicro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.
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- MIT/X11 License
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neatvi [1]permalink
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Neatvi is a vi/ex editor that can edit bidirectional UTF-8 text.
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- ISC License
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Notepad2permalink
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- Revised BSD License
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nvipermalink
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- BSD License
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portable mgpermalink
License ReferenceLicense(s)
- public domain
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Programmer's Notepadpermalink
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- Revised BSD License
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sandypermalink
License ReferenceSandy is an ncurses text editor with an easy-to-read, hackable C source that tries to maximize screen real estate, minimize the SLOC used, and not get in your way too much.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Scintillapermalink
License ReferenceScintilla is a free source code editing component. As well as features found in standard text editing components, Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips.
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- Other
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SciTEpermalink
License ReferenceSciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.
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- Other
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Screen Editorpermalink
License ReferenceScreen Editor, or se for short, is a screen oriented version of the classic UNIX text editor ed. It's similar to vi as both are modal editors with curses interfaces. However, it differs from vi in that it has the same command syntax as ed.
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- public domain
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slappermalink
License ReferenceThe slap project provides a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor with first-class mouse support that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.
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- MIT/X11 License
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SoyWikipermalink
License ReferenceLicense(s)
- MIT/X11 License
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Textadeptpermalink
License ReferenceTextadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Ultimate++permalink
License ReferenceUltimate++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmer productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc.), and an integrated development environment.
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- Simplified BSD License
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vee-eyepermalink
License ReferenceThe vee-eye project is Jody Bruchon's clone of "vi".
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- MIT/X11 License
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vihpermalink
License ReferenceWith vih, you get a simple vi clone written in Haskell.
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- MIT/X11 License
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vispermalink
License ReferenceVis aims to be a modern, legacy free, simple, efficient vim-like editor. It extends vim's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command language.
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- ISC License
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Visual Studio Codepermalink
License ReferenceVS Code is a new type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. Code provides comprehensive editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.
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- MIT/X11 License