Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Text Editors

Text Editors for Desktop Operating Systems

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    OmegaT - multiplatform CAT tool

    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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    Downloads: 2,239 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 1,203 This Week
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    biber
    Biber is a sophisticated bibliography processing backend for the LaTeX biblatex package. It supports a unsurpassed feature set for automated conformance to complex bibliography style requirements such as labelling, sorting and name handling. It has comprehensive Unicode support.
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    Downloads: 298 This Week
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    wxMEdit

    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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    Downloads: 213 This Week
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    The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify

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    Ada Class Library

    Ada Class Library

    Ada Class Library - an object orientated library for Ada.

    Text search and replace. Scripting (small tool programs). CGI scripts. Execution of external programs (incl. I/O redirection). Garbage Collection. Extendended Booch Components. CD-Recorder
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    Downloads: 342 This Week
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    LMG2Shruti is a free non unicode to unicode font converter. It converts the LMG Arun font to Gujarati unicode Shruti font.
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    Downloads: 113 This Week
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    The AbiWord word processor is a full-featured cross-platform word processor.
    Downloads: 64 This Week
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    DocBook to LaTeX Publishing transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported too. It started as a clone of DB2LaTeX.
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    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It reads an input file and copies it to an output file transforming the data as specified by the patterns defined by the user. See the "Wiki" tab for further information.
    Downloads: 49 This Week
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    SETEdit is a friendly text editor. It is a text mode application with windows, buttons, mouse support, etc. The main target of the project are programmers so the editor is mainly oriented to programming.
    Downloads: 43 This Week
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    NppCalc

    NppCalc

    plugin for evaluates the expressions in the Notepad++

    NppCalc - plugin for evaluates the expressions in the Notepad++ NppCalc used to work with math, trigonometry, statistics, combinatorics, arrays, sets, bits, strings, dates, color, image, measurement, file and folder, RS-232, TCP/IP, encoding, encryption, hashing, compression, etc, Over 400 functions. Q: How does this work? A: Just type function name and press Enter!
    Downloads: 41 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    Notepad++ Portable Edition is the Notepad++ source code editor and notepad replacement packaged with an OTBSoft Launcher as a portable app, so you can take it with you on a USB drive, iPod, etc and use it on any computer.
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    OSPlus is a collection of utilities for DOS, Linux and Win32. This includes a Text Editor and a Disk Imager. I am gradually making it Open Source, and the source will be available for anyone to hack away on.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    Note: future development of this project has moved to https://github.com/brown-uk/dict_uk Dictionary and affix files for the aspell, myspell, hunspell and ispell programs for Ukrainian language. Словники для перевірки правопису української мови за допомогою aspell, myspell, hunspell
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    cedit

    cedit

    Simple console editor for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD , Dos

    Simple console editor for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD , Dos Has highlighting for the freebasic programming language. Unicode is supported for windows and linux Undo|Redo
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    OOoLatex is no more maintained. Please consider using TexMaths (http://roland65.free.fr/texmaths/) OOoLatex is a set marcos designed to provide latex support into OpenOffice. Complex equations can be inserted as images, the latex code is saved into the image attribute while simpler equations are expanded into symbol characters to be inserted as text.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    SciTECO

    SciTECO

    Advanced TECO dialect and interactive screen editor based on Scintilla

    SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to Video TECO. It also adds features from classic TECO-11, as well as unique new ideas. Project development takes place here: https://git.fmsbw.de/sciteco The download archive is mirrored at Sourceforge, but for nightly builds check out: https://sciteco.fmsbw.de/downloads/nightly/
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Simple text editor emulates VAX VMS EDT. Uses numeric key-pad for common editing functions. Easy to learn, efficient, enables rapid editing. Multiple buffers. Handles large files. Light-weight.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents, sort of a Reference Manager or BibTeX for markup languages. It is portable and known to run on Linux, Free/NetBSD, OSX, Solaris, and Windows/Cygwin.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    The FreeDOS Edlin project is the standard line editor in the FreeDOS operating system.
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    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Fireworkz (Colton Software)

    Fireworkz (Colton Software)

    An integrated word processor and spreadsheet for RISC OS and Windows

    Fireworkz combines the features of Wordz (a word processor that you can use to write letters, reports, books, invitations, shopping lists, schedules and other documents) and Resultz (a spreadsheet that you can use to perform calculations, analyse figures, and produce colourful charts) enabling you to do even more; incorporate live results in your reports, or perform an automatic mail-merge to your friends or customers. If you are using Microsoft® Windows®, Linux or macOS, and don't know what RISC OS is, you may be better off using LibreOffice!
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Mickey is a hex/ascii file viewer and editor that runs on all major operating systems thanks to FLTK.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    The Text Trix editor is an open-source, cross-platform text editor with a mind for user-friendly file and text navigation. See our new GitHub home for the latest and greatest Text Trix development: https://github.com/the4thchild/texttrix
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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    PabloDraw
    A Windows-based ansi/ascii editor with unlimited multi-user capabilities.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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