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• Computers: Software: Editors  (59)
• Computers: Software: Word Processors  (99)

AEditor  aeditor.rubyforge.org A programmer's editor, written entirely in Ruby and thus easy to extend with Ruby customizations. Summary of the features, developers weblog, information about the development and download and installation instructions.

Bluefish  bluefish.openoffice.nl A programmer's HTML editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

BVI - Binary Visual editor  bvi.sourceforge.net The bvi editor is a display-oriented editor for binary files, based on the vi text editor.

Code Browser  code-browser.sourceforge.net A folding text editor that allows to structure source code using folders. [Win32/Linux]

Cssed  cssed.sourceforge.net CSS editor featuring auto completion, syntax highlighting and syntax validation. (C, C++) [Linux]

Ed!  writeka.com/ed 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.

Eddi  eddi.sourceforge.net Tcl and tix based editor.

Editra.org  editra.org Project information, previews, documentation, downloads and a plugins section for the multi-platform editor written in Python.

Freddy  freddy.sourceforge.net An ascii text editor, primarily for programmers.

FTE Text Editor  fte.sourceforge.net A folding text editor for programmers.

gEdit  www.gnome.org/projects/gedit Lightweight but powerful text editor of the GNOME project.

Gnotepad+  gnotepad.sourceforge.net An HTML/text editor using GTK+ and/or GNOME.

GNU Nano  www.nano-editor.org Clone of the Pico text editor with some enhancements. Available for Linux and DOS.

GNU TeXmacs  www.texmacs.org 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.

Helene  helene.muze.nl A webbased syntax highlighting text editor (Javascript) [OS Independent].

The Hessling Editor (THE)  hessling-editor.sourceforge.net 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.

J  armedbear.org A multifile, multiwindow customizable editor featuring syntax highlighting and enhancements for Java, C, C++, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Lisp, and Perl, with FTP and HTTP support written in Java.

The JED Editor Page  www.jedsoft.org/jed 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.

Jed modes and scripts  www.paneura.com/~dino Some scripts for customising and enhancing the JED editor using the SLang scripting capabilities.

jVi  jvi.sourceforge.net jVi is a small subset of vim which is pluggable into JBuilder.

Katy  katy.sourceforge.net A text editor for KDE inspired by the popular Editor UltraEdit.

LDE - The Linux Disk Editor  lde.sourceforge.net 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.

NE, the Nice Editor  ne.dsi.unimi.it An editor with a small footprint, featuring extended regular expression search and replace a la emacs and vi and editing of binary files.

NEdit  www.nedit.org GUI-style plain-text editor for X-Windows systems. Features include syntax highlighting and C-style macro language.

Nedit Macros  www.mailnet.co.uk/~marc/msl.html A large collection of macros for use with the NEdit text editor.

NEdit Support Page  nedit.gmxhome.de Package to port NEdit on Windows and a package of NEdit macros to edit LaTeX files.

Peacock  peacock.sourceforge.net HTML Editor for GTK+/GNOME. It supports most of basic HTML. It features session management and preview using the GtkHTML widget.

poEdit  www.poedit.net 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.

Programmers Notepad  www.pnotepad.org Windows programming editor with an integrated Hex viewer/editor.

QE Personal Editor  www.geocities.com/linux4tw/qe A PE2-like editor program for Unix.

Quanta Plus  quanta.kdewebdev.org An HTML editor and a web development for the K Desktop Environment.

REd0  red0.sourceforge.net A text editor written in TCL/Tk, meant to be platform-independend while still using the host systems available features.

Scintilla and SciTE  www.scintilla.org Download, screenshots and documentation of a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK and an editor based on this component.

SETEDIT  setedit.sourceforge.net Text mode editor to supersede Borlands BC++ editor with a number of enhancements. Available for DOS and Linux.

Shed  shed.sourceforge.net Easy to use hex editor written for Unix/Linux using ncurses, with a friendly pico-style interface.

Smultron  smultron.sourceforge.net Editor for Mac OS X with support for syntax colouring, text encodings, code snippets, HTML preview and multi-document find and replace with regular expressions. The site provides a description of the features, a FAQ and an introduction into syntax-based colouring.

TEA for Linux  tea.linux.kiev.ua 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.

Tinn  tinn.sourceforge.net 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.

Tkoutline  tkoutline.sourceforge.net A cross-platform outline editor written in Tcl/Tk.

Vigor  vigor.sourceforge.net Has all the features of traditional Unix vi, plus the friendly and helpful Vigor paperclip assistant.

Vim online  vim.sourceforge.net Resources, tips and news for the Vim community.

Xcoral  xcoral.free.fr 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.

ZED  zed.c3po.it Small editor with features for programmers.

Zile is Lossy Emacs  zile.sourceforge.net 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.