Basic Text Editors
AkelPad
AkelPad is a small, expandable text editor written for the Windows family of operating systems. It can also be run under Wine, an application which allows users to run Windows applications on Unix-like systems such as Linux. AkelPad’s author states that the program can “replace standard Notepad” and has many features which NotePad lacks. Although [...]
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Crimson Editor is a freeware text editor. It is typically used as a source code editor, and HTML editor, for Microsoft Windows. The author was Ingyu Kang. History The last formal release was in September 2004. On December 30, 2006, Ingyu Kang posted a message announcing Crimson Editor as an open source project. Crimson Editor [...]
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gedit is a UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. Designed as a general purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages. It is designed to have a clean, simple graphical user interface according to the philosophy [...]
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This article is about the text editor jEdit.For the Japanese text editor, see Jedit X.For syntax highlighting of wikitext in jEdit, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. jEdit is a text editor for programmers, available under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. Compatibility jEdit is written in Java and runs on Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, [...]
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In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The name Kate is an acronym for KDE Advanced Text Editor. Kate has been part of the KDE since release 2.2 in 2001. Because of the KParts technology, it is possible to embed Kate as an editing component in other KDE applications. The integrated development environment [...]
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In computing, nano is a curses-based text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems. It is a clone of Pico, the editor of the Pine email client. Nano aims to emulate Pico as closely as possible and perhaps include extra functionality. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, nano is free software. With [...]
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SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. It is licensed under a minimal version of the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer. The current version is 2.01, released on August 19, 2009. Lightweight and built for speed, it is designed mainly for source [...]
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This article is about a specific software title.For a Mac OS API for text editor programming, see TextEdit (API).For text editors in general, see Text editor. TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT’s NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Inc.’s [...]
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TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X created by Allan Odgaard. Its users are mostly programmers, though it has been used for screenwriting . Notable features include declarative customizations, tabs for open documents, recordable macros, folding sections and snippets, shell integration, and an extensible bundle system. History In 2004, Allan Odgaard [...]
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TED Notepad is a freeware portable text editor for Microsoft Windows. The software has been developed by Juraj Simlovic since 2001, originally as a school project. It has a similar cosmetic look to Notepad, but provides variety of features for advanced plain-text editing. Includes experimental features like line completion or selection jumping. Overview Key features [...]
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