Open Source C Text Editors
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Notepad++ Plugins
A plugin to improve Notepad++
Notepad++ plugins is a collection of tools which plays a role of completion for Notepad++. This project contains Explorer, Function List, Hex Editor, Spell Checker and a console program NppExec. Other plugin developers are invited to share their projects -
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BibDesk
Bibliography manager for Mac OS X
BibDesk is a graphical bibTeX bibliography manager for Mac OS X. -
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XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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Joe is world-famous Wordstar like text editor.
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GtkSpell provides MSWord-style highlighting of misspelled words in a GtkText widget. Also, right-clicking a misspelled word pops up a menu of suggested replacements. GtkSpell can easily be added to Gtk projects.
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VSCodium
binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VSCode. Please note that some Visual Studio Code extensions have licenses that restrict their use to the official Visual Studio Code builds and therefore do not work with VSCodium. -
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jq
Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice, filter, map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text. jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You can download a single binary, scp it to a far away machine of the same type, and expect it to work. jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you'd expect. Data in jq is represented as streams of JSON values - every jq expression runs for each value in its input stream, and can produce any number of values to its output stream. jq filters run on a stream of JSON data. The input to jq is parsed as a sequence of whitespace-separated JSON values which are passed through the provided filter one at a time. The output(s) of the filter are written to standard out, again as a sequence of whitespace-separated JSON data. -
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Midnight Commander for Windows
Native Midnight Commander 4.8.33 for Windows/Win32
Windows XP+/32 bit native port of GNU Midnight Commander, based on the current 4.8.33 development stream. Midnight Commander (also known as mc) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander. Supports both the recent Windows 10 enhanced plus legacy consoles, 16 and 256+ colour modes are available within either. Features include the ability work with common archive formats as if they were simply another directory, and function as an SFTP/FTP client. Also includes an built-in editor/viewer, features include syntax highlighting for many languages, macros, code snippets, simple integration with external tools, automatic indentation, mouse support, clipboard and the ability to work in both ASCII and hex modes. MC can also rename groups of files, move files to a different directory at the same time as it.renames them. It lets the user specify the original and resulting file names using wildcard. https://github.com/adamyg/mcwin32 -
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Geany
A fast and lightweight IDE
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages. -
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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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Neovim
Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Neovim is a hyperextensible text editor based on Vim. It seeks to maximize usability and extensibility, simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. -
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A fast, compact Motif/X11 plain text editor, for most popular Unix systems. Features significant support for programmers including syntax highlighting, macro language, and streamlined keyboard navigation. Mature and stable.
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Arabeyes
A project to increase free Arabic fonts on Unix/Linux
Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions. -
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CodeLite
CodeLite: an open source, cross platform C/C++/PHP and JavaScript IDE
codelite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and JavaScript programming languages (build and tested on Windows 7, 8, ubuntu >=14.04 plus debian, fedora and openSUSE, and Mac OSX 10.8.4). codelite is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 license If you need help with codelite, please join our forums at: http://forums.codelite.org Visit our download page at: http://codelite.org/support.php The CodeLite Team -
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Aewan is a multi-layered ascii-art/animation editor that produces both stand-alone cat-able art files and an easy-to-parse format for integration in your terminal applications.
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Linguistico is a linguistics tools project based on Italian language. Tools are: dictionaries, thesaurus, words definitions, scripts, programs, ... For: OpenOffice.org LibreOffice ThunderBird Mozilla FireFox - MySpell MyThes Aspell HunSpell
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Hexplorer
Binary (hexadecimal) editor for Windows
Binary (hexadecimal) editor for Windows -
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The Guide is a tree-based information management tool. It lets you to organize information as nodes in a tree. (A two-pane rich-text outliner for Windows.)
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Vim
Vim - the ubiquitous text editor
Vim is a highly configurable, keyboard-driven text editor designed to make creating and editing text extremely efficient. It is based on the classic vi editor and comes preinstalled as “vi” on most UNIX systems and macOS. Vim is known for its modal editing approach, which allows users to perform complex text manipulations with minimal keystrokes. It is exceptionally stable and lightweight, making it suitable for everything from quick file edits to large development projects. Vim supports a wide range of customization options, enabling users to tailor workflows to their exact needs. Its active development and long-standing community ensure continuous improvements and long-term reliability. Vim is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems. -
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A text editor.
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XNEdit
Modernized fork of NEdit, with unicode support and AA text rendering
A fast and classic X11 text editor, based on NEdit, with full unicode support and antialiased text rendering. -
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Find And Replace Text command line utility. New & improved version of the well-known grep command, with advanced features such as: case-adaption of the replace string; find (& replace) in filenames, auto CVS edit. Moved to https://github.com/lionello/fart-it
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Kilo
A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search
Kilo is a minimalistic terminal text editor written in C, famous for fitting its full implementation into fewer than 1,000 lines of code in a single source file. It was created by Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez, also known for Redis) as an exercise in writing a small, self-contained editor that others can study and extend. Despite its tiny size, Kilo supports core editor features like opening and saving files, incremental search, and basic syntax highlighting. It deliberately avoids external dependencies, not even using curses; instead it talks directly to the terminal using VT100 escape sequences, making it portable to most Unix-like systems with a compatible terminal. Because the codebase is compact and well-structured, it has become a popular teaching and learning resource, inspiring tutorials such as “Build Your Own Text Editor” that walk through implementing Kilo step by step.
