Text editor
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A text editor (文書編輯機) is software used to edit plain document files. It is one of the most basic pieces of software on a computer, able to read files in a human-readable text format rather than a binary format, edit them with simple operations, and save them.
List of text editor software
- vi (vim)
- nvim (neovim)
- emacs
- Notepad++
- jedit
- Sublime
- Atom
- Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
- CKEditor (JavaScript)
- Quill (JavaScript)
- CudaText
- Lite XL - A lightweight text editor developed in C and Lua
- Lexical - A text editor library released by Facebook
- Editable - An extensible rich text editor framework
- Zed - A text editor made by the developers of Atom
- Pragtical - A practical code editor (SDL, C, Lua)
- Helix - A post-modern modal text editor.
For novelists ?
- Novel Writer - A Markdown editor for novelists
- Ulysses - https://ulysses.app/
- Scrivener - https://literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/
Linux text editors
A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. It has many different uses such as modifying system configuration files, writing programming language source code, jotting down thoughts, or even making a grocery list.
Whatever the level of sophistication of the editor, they typically have a common set of functionality, such as searching/replacing text, formatting text, undo/redo, importing files, as well as moving text within the file. However, many of the editors included in this article are feature-rich, and can be further extended using plugins and libraries.
| All Purpose | |
| Emacs | Extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor |
| XEmacs | Highly customizable console / graphical editor and development system |
| Vim | Power of the editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set |
| Console | |
| Diakonos | More powerful than nano, with Windows key bindings |
| jed | Compact, fast and powerful |
| nano | Clone of Pico, the editor of the Pine email client |
| Graphical | |
| Cream | Modern configuration of Vim |
| gedit | Small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME environment |
| Kate | Multi document editor which is part of KDE |
| Scribes | Text editor for GNOME that focuses on streamlining your workflow |
| TEA | GTK-based with wide range of text-processing functions |
| HTML | |
| Bluefish | Powerful editor for writing websites, scripts and programming code |
| KompoZer | Complete Web Authoring System |
| Quanta Plus | Web development tool for KDE |
| Screem | Site CReating and Editing EnvironMent |
| Source code | |
| Geany | Small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment (IDE) |
| jEdit | A mature programmer's Java based editor |
| SciTe | SCIntilla based Text Editor |
| TeX/LaTex | |
| Kile | User-friendly LaTeX source editor and TeX shell and KDE |
| LyX | Advanced open source document processor |
| TeXmacs | WYSIWYW scientific word processor |