Text Editor

Welcome to the Text Editor

App/Package	Abstract	Addition or Link
2bsd-vi	The original vi editor, updated to run on modern OSes
abiword	Open-source, cross-platform WYSIWYG word processor
aee	Easy editor with both curses and X11 interfaces
apel-emacs26	Portable Emacs Library
asedit	Text editor for X/Motif
beav	Binary Editor And Viewer, a full featured binary file editor
biew	Binary file viewer and editor
bitedit	Bitedit is a simple ncurses program for editing a file
bluefish	HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer
boiling-egg	Front-end of Egg V4
bpatch	Hex editor that doesn't load the whole file at once
bvi	Vi-like binary file (hex)editor
cadubi	ASCII drawing utility
calligra	KDE office suite
chexedit	Full screen text mode Hex editor using the [n]curses library
codelite	Open Source IDE for C/C++
cooledit	Suite of utilities, including a GUI editor
cudatext-gtk2	Cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus
deforaos-editor	DeforaOS desktop text editor
diakonos	Linux editor for the masses
dkns	Simple console text editor
drjava	Lightweight IDE for writing Java programs
dte	Small and easy to use console text editor
e3	Full featured text editor written in assembler
ecce	Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor
ecrire	EFL (Enlightenment) graphical text editor
edith	X11 GUI editor for binary and plain text files
emacs	GNU editing macros
encryptpad	Minimalist secure text editor and binary encryptor
featherpad	Lightweight Qt5 plain-text editor
focuswriter	Simple, distraction-free writing environment
fpc-ide	Free Pascal integrated IDE/compiler
fte	Full-featured text editor for X11
fxite	Advanced cross-platform text editor
gate	Simple and unobtrusive line-oriented text editor
geany	Fast and lightweight GTK+ IDE
geany-gtk2	Fast and lightweight GTK+ IDE
gedit	Small but powerful text editor for GNOME 3 Desktop Environment
ghostwriter	Distraction-free Markdown editor
gmanedit	GNOME manpages editor
gnome-latex	LaTeXila, Integrated LaTeX environment
gobby	Free collaborative editor
gomate	Edit files from an ssh session in TextMate/VSCode
hexedit	View and edit files in hexadecimal or ASCII
hexer	Multi buffer editor for binary files
jabref	BibTeX native bibliographic reference manager
jed	SLang-based text editor
jedit	Powerful programmer's text editor written in Java
jucipp	Lightweight C++-IDE with support for C++11, C++14 and C++17
kate	Basic editor framework for the KDE system
kile	LaTeX source editor for KDE
komodo-edit	Multi-language editor from ActiveState
lazarus-gtk2	Portable Delphi-like IDE for the FreePascal compiler (GTK2)
leafpad	GTK+ based simple text editor
linux-sublime	Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
liteide	Simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE
lumina-textedit	Plaintext editor from the Lumina Desktop
lyx	Document processor interfaced with LaTeX (nearly WYSIWYG)
madedit	Open-source and cross-platform text/hex editor
medit-editor	Programming and around-programming text editor
mg	Small, fast Emacs-like editor
micro	Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
mle	Small, flexible, terminal-based text editor
morla	RDF editor
mousepad	Simple text editor for the Xfce Desktop
mp	Programming text editor
nano	Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone
ne	Nice and powerful editor
nedit	X11/Motif GUI text editor for programs and plain text files
neovim	Next-generation Vim
o	Small, fast and limited text editor in Go
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pluma	Small but powerful text editor for MATE Desktop Environment
If you don't find a package, you are looking for, we recommend to search the Ports Collection.
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