Open Source Linux Text Editors
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View 39 business solutionsBrowse free open source Text Editors and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Text Editors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Apache OpenOffice
The free and Open Source productivity suite
Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation. -
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KDiff3
A graphical text difference analyzer
This repository is no longer maintained and is kept for archival purposes. See https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdiff3 for the newest code and https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/ for release bundles. All bugs should be filed at bugs.kde.org. KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool with integrated editor. It can also compare and merge directories. Platform-independant. -
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OmegaT - multiplatform CAT tool
The free computer aided translation (CAT) tool for professionals
OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects. -
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LibreOffice
A free and powerful office suite
LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice. Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) – development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. Your documents will look professional and clean, regardless of their purpose: a letter, a master thesis, a brochure, financial reports, marketing presentations, technical drawings and diagrams. LibreOffice makes your work look great while you focus on the content, thanks to its powerful styles system and structuring tools. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard (OpenDocument Format). -
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jEdit
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java.
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture. -
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Allows editing of any size file in hexadecimal, decimal and ASCII. A great tool that allows you to edit and analyze the contents for either the data or resource fork of any type of file. 68K, PPC and Carbon run on MacOS 7-9 and X.
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wxMEdit
wxMEdit, Cross-platform Text/Hex Editor, Improved Version of MadEdit
•Added automatically checking for updates •Added bookmark support •Added right-click context menu for each tab •Added purging histories support •Added selecting a line by triple click •Added FreeBASIC syntax file •Added an option to place configuration files into %APPDATA% directory under Windows •Improved support for Find/Replace •Improved Mac OS X support •Improved system integration under Windows •Improved encoding detection result •Improved Hex editing support •Added more choices for data format copying/pasting in Hex Area •Added new feature: Paste with Overwriting in Hex Area •Improved encoding support --Added grouping of encodings --Added new encodings: ISO-8859-16,CP1258,KOI8-R/U,GB18030,CP850,CP852,CP855,CP866,CP437 for ASCII-Art •Redesigned dialogs with Code::Blocks wxSmith •Updated translations --Added Spanish,Russian,German,Polish translation --Updated Chinese and Japanese translations •Other fixes and changes -
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Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit
Localization tools built by localizers for localizers
Tools for localization: - Pootle: web based translation management system. - Virtaal: Computer Aided Translation (CAT) tool. - Translate Toolkit: QA, format conversion and support (PO, Java .properties, OpenOffice, Mozilla, XLIFF, TMX, TBX, CSV, Qt .ts). -
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FCKeditor
FCKeditor (retired)
FCKeditor is the previous version of CKEditor and has been discontinued after version 2. The new CKEditor is redesigned from the ground up, offering more WYSIWYG text editing features, enhanced security and better integration. Don’t force yourself with retro FCKeditor. Switch to the new, cool CKEditor at ckeditor.com -
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MadEdit is a Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++&wxWidgets. MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings(UTF8/16/32,Big5,GBK...) and WordCount.
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XML Editor/Validator/Designer with CAMV
CAM XML Editor for XML+JSON+Hibernate+SQL Open-XDX sponsored by Oracle
The CAM editor is the leading open source XML Editor/Validation/Schema toolset for rapidly building / deploying XML /JSON /Hibernate /SQL data /Forms applications. Visual WYSIWYG data design, rule entry wizards + drag & drop dictionary components. Will import, analyze / refactor from XML Schema / JSON. Oracle is a proud enterprise sponsor; with NIEM.gov support. Do SQL data import/map+ Open Data API delivery+ Hibernate JPA + UI Forms/Pencil Makes XSD schema (default, flatten, NIEM, & OASIS modes) + JAXB bindings; Mindmap FreeMind or UML models(XMI); XML unit test & live SQL data; HTML docs + spreadsheets (NIEM IEPDs). Canonical component dictionaries from schema sets, SQL, JSON, ERwin XSD, or spreadsheets. The XML CAM templates (OASIS standard) store the exchange structure, content model, code lists, DBMappings, SQL lookups+business rules (XPath). Java CAMV XML/JSON validation engine is a complete exchange test framework [XMLUnit, TEAM(Schematron)]. Java/Eclipse +Saxon/XSL -
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Properties Editor
Save time and effort of converting into Unicode through native2ascii
Properties Editor can directly edit property files written in Unicode reference characters, eliminating the need to convert to Unicode. In addition to the usual editor functions, it can also be used as an Eclipse plug-in. When you unzip the file, when you unzip the downloaded zip file, a folder called eclipse will be created, and within that there will be folders called features and plugins. Copy this over the actual eclipse folder. Development using the properties file is performed by Java by the setting file of J2EE application, internationalization correspondence with desktop application, etc. being sufficient. However, you have to change the multi-byte character in a file into Unicode with the native2ascii tool of attachment in J2SDK on the character platform un-depending. This editor can directly edit property files written in Unicode reference characters, and saves the time and effort of converting into Unicode through native2ascii. -
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Diff-ext is an extension for filemanagers such as Windows Explorer and Nautilus that allows to launch diff/merge tools on selected files.
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Calc2LaTeX is an OpenOffice.org Calc (Spreadsheet) macro for converting tables. It makes making tables on LaTeX very easy.
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net2ftp
net2ftp is a web-based FTP client
net2ftp is a web based FTP client. Use it at http://www.net2ftp.com or install it on your own web server (PHP needed, MySQL optional). Features: browse, copy/move/delete files and directories recursively, upload, download, edit, view code with syntax highlighting, zip and unzip. net2ftp now also supports FTP over SSH. -
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RText is a customizable programmer's text editor written in Java. Some of its features include: syntax highlighting, editing multiple documents at once, printing and print preview, find/replace/find in files dialogs, undo/redo, and online help.
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NoteCase is portable (Linux, Win32) hierarchical notes manager (aka outliner) coded in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. Project is inactive as of 2008/12/09, read more at: http://factoriel.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
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Scipad
A powerful editor and graphical debugger for code written in Scilab
Scipad is a powerful editor and graphical debugger for programs written in the Scilab language. It is a mature and highly configurable editor, almost entirely written in Tcl/Tk. Scipad is a free software running on Linux and Windows. Licence is GPL V2. -
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The Xerlin project is a Java based XML editor that can run on any Java 2 virtual machine. The application is extensible via custom editor interfaces. Xerlin can be used to provide simple, intuitive interfaces for users who know nothing about XML.
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Addons for any applications supporting the extension mechanism introduced by Mozilla products: Firefox, Thunderbird, Komodo, NVU, Mozilla Suite
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TEA is a text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and the syntax highlighting. There are two branches of TEA: Qt-based and GTK-based.
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Boostnote is an open source note-taking app for programmers. Apps available for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Built with Electron, React + Redux, Webpack and CSSModules.