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This repository is no longer maintained and is kept for archival purposes.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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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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JuffEd is a free, cross-platform text editor for programmers and advanced users. Has syntax highlighting for many languages, code folding, find/replace using plain text and regexps, code completion, multiple charsets and many other useful features.
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GloboNote
Create sticky notes, to-do list, journals & reminders all in one app
GloboNote is a free and easy to use desktop note taking application. It lets you create sticky notes, to-do lists, journals, reminders and other notes in one place. There are no limits to the number of sticky notes you can create. Notes can be organize by groups and search using the search tool. GloboNote can be run in any OS that has Java 8 installed. -
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OxygenOffice Professional(OOOP, O2OP)is an enhanced version of free OpenOffice.org what is a multi-platform office productivity suite.OxygenOffice Professional contains more extras like templates, cliparts, samples, fonts and VBA support. Get 3.2.1
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JOrtho is a spell checker for Java. The library works with any JTextComponent from the swing framework. The dictionary is based on the free Wiktionary.org and applicable for multiple languages. You can select the spellchecking language via context menu.
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Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation.
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Open Source Thesaurus for Polish Language, useful in many office applications such as OpenOffice.org
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Web Book Downloader
Download websites as e-book: pdf, txt, epub.
This application allows user to download chapters from website in 3 ways: - from table of contents; - from range: first chapter address, last chapter address; - by crawling from first chapter to n; In settings you can customize language, input(website encoding) for simplicity output is in the same encoding. If you want your language add new class into strings package, and new fields into Settings class and GUI menu(initialize method). -
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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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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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Addons for any applications supporting the extension mechanism introduced by Mozilla products: Firefox, Thunderbird, Komodo, NVU, Mozilla Suite
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EBookME is Java application (GUI, console and/or applet) which generates Java ME ebooks (JAD, JAR) from input text files. Generated books can be readed on mobile phones which support Java (MIDP 1.0).
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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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A translation tools suite for Computer-Aided Translation / Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT). A translation processor with translation memory, machine translation and project support, bitext aligner/converter, TMX validator, and others.
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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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gPDFText is a text editor for GTK+ that opens PDF documents for ebook readers, converts the text contents into plain ASCII text, restores the original paragraphs and removes unwanted line breaks to allow easier zooming on the reader.
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Convert Char PL
Only for Polish Users! Allows to convert PL characters in DOS,Unix...
EN: Polish users only! PL: Program umożliwia szybką konwersję między konkretnymi systemami kodowania polskich znaków. Zaleca się używać go jako dodatek do Programmers Notepad lub dowolnych innych programów tego typu. Plik przekazywany w argumencie jest również plikiem docelowym. Znaczy to, że zmiany są dokonywane bezpośrednio w przekazywanym pliku. Jest to o tyle dobre, że nie wymaga gromadzenia danych w plikach tymczasowych.