Open Source Mac Text Editors
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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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MarkText
A simple and elegant markdown editor
MarkText is an MIT licensed open source project, and the latest version will always be downloadable for free from the GitHub release page. MarkText is still in development, and its development is inseparable from all sponsors. Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience. Support CommonMark Spec, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec and selective support Pandoc markdown. Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX), front matter and emojis. Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency. Output HTML and PDF files. Various themes: Cadmium Light, Material Dark etc. Various editing modes: Source Code mode, Typewriter mode, Focus mode. Paste images directly from clipboard. -
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Atom
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable and full-featured. It's also easily customizable- you can customize it to do anything and be able to use it productively without ever touching a config file. Atom is free to download and runs on Linux, OS X and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control. It is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell),a framework for building cross-platform apps using Chromium and Node.js. -
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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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MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
MarkEdit is a free and open-source Markdown editor, for macOS. It's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown. -
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Brackets
A modern, lightweight yet powerful text editor
Brackets is a free, modern open-source text editor made especially for Web Development. Written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets makes it easy for web designers and front-end developers to design in the browser. Its blend of visual tools ensures you get just the right amount of help when you want it without disrupting your creative process. It's the better, easier and more enjoyable way of writing code. -
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Notepads
A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design
I have been waiting long enough for a modern Windows 10 notepad app to come before I decided to create one myself. Don’t get me wrong, Notepad++, VS Code, and Sublime are great text editors. I have used them all and I will continue to use them in the future. However, they are either too heavy or look less appealing. There are times that I just wanted to use Windows Notepad for things like writing notes or editing config files. So I decided to create a win32 notepad replacement here and try to give it a modern look and feel. Most importantly, it has to be blazingly fast and appeal to everyone. -
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micro
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
Micro's number one feature is being easy to install (it's just a static binary with no dependencies) and easy to use. Use a simple json format to configure your options and rebind keys to your liking. If you need more power, you can use Lua to configure the editor further. Micro supports over 75 languages and has 7 default colorschemes to choose from. Micro supports 16, 256, and truecolor themes. Syntax files and colorschemes are also very simple to make. Micro has support for Sublime-style multiple cursors, giving you lots of editing power directly in your terminal. Micro supports a full-blown plugin system. Plugins are written in Lua and there is a plugin manager to automatically download and install your plugins for you. Micro's keybindings are what you would expect from a simple-to-use editor. You can also rebind any of the bindings without problem in the bindings.json file. Micro has full support for the mouse. -
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Mockoon
Run mock APIs locally, no remote deployment, no account required
Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open-source. It has been built with Electron and can be used on Windows (exe), Linux (deb, rpm, Appimage, and Snap), and MacOS (dmg or brew). Get working mock REST APIs in seconds with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Run them everywhere with the CLI. Compatible with the OpenAPI specification, Mockoon integrates perfectly with your existing applications and API design workflow. Go beyond mocking with advanced features and tackle the most complex situation with HTTP requests recording, proxying, integration testing, etc. Mockoon offers you complete flexibility when creating your mocks: custom statuses, route and global headers, file serving or body editor, HTTPS, etc. Simulate real-life scenarios with dynamic templating and the response rules system. Test your app resilience with sequential and random responses. -
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SVGEdit
Powerful SVG-Editor for your browser
SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG drawing editor that works in any modern browser. SVGEdit is the most popular open source SVG editor. It was started more than 10 years ago by a fantastic team of developers. Unfortunately, the product was not maintained for a quite long period. We decided to give this tool a new life by refreshing many aspects. Please let us know with an issue or a discussions if you wish to contribute. V7 is changing significantly the way to integrate and customize SVG-Edit. You can have a look to index.html to see how you can insert a div element into your HTML code and inject the editor into the div. The "svgcanvas" that takes care of the underlying svg edition. It can be used to build your own editor. See example in the demos folder or the svg-edit-react repository. -
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ecode
Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware
ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor. The project comes as the first serious project using the eepp GUI, and it's currently being developed to improve the eepp GUI library as part of one of its main objectives. -
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BookStack
Simple & Free Wiki Software
BookStack is a free and open source platform for storing and organising information and documentation. A self-hosted and opinionated wiki system, BookStack is simple and easy to use, giving even new users with just basic word-processing skills a pleasant out of the box experience. BookStack offers a relaxed, open and positive approach. While the platform can provide advanced power features to those who want them, it is primarily designed not to be extensible outside of its core purpose. That being said, BookStack already comes with plenty of powerful features, such as search and linking, cross-book sorting, image management and more. It is also multi-lingual and offers options for authentication integration. -
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Markdown Viewer
Markdown Viewer / Browser Extension
Markdown Viewer and Browser Extension. -
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Notable
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
Notes are written in Markdown, plus you can write KaTeX expressions, Mermaid diagrams and more, check out our Markdown cheatsheet. Notable provides a very powerful Markdown editor, it's the same one VS Code uses in fact, so features like multi-cursors, a minimap and best-in-class syntax highlighting are built-in. Notes and attachments are simply stored on your disk, this is extremely portable and powerful: you could edit your notes via a third-party editor on mobile, have them synchronized via Dropbox, use Git, run a regex-based search and replace etc. A dark theme is also available. In the future support for custom themes will be added as well. Zen mode provides a minimalistic editing and reading experience, hiding everything that's not necessary. Notable is also keyboard friendly, has a quick open window, and we'll soon add a command palette too, so you won't have to click any buttons if you don't want to. -
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Pix2Text
Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, and math
An Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, math formulas, and text in images, converting them into Markdown format. A free alternative to Mathpix, empowering seamless conversion of visual content into text-based representations. 80+ languages are supported. Pix2Text (P2T) aims to be a free and open-source Python alternative to Mathpix, and it can already accomplish Mathpix's core functionality. Pix2Text (P2T) can recognize layouts, tables, images, text, and mathematical formulas, and integrate all of these contents into Markdown format. P2T can also convert an entire PDF file (which can contain scanned images or any other format) into Markdown format. -
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Summernote
Super simple WYSIWYG editor
Simply download and attach your js, css with bootstrap. Customize by Initializing various options and modules. Summernote is licensed under MIT and maintained by the community. Integrate it with any back-end. 3rd parties available in django, rails, angular. Bootstrap uses certain HTML elements and CSS properties which require HTML5 doctype. Summernote uses the Open Source libraries jQuery and Bootstrap, if you are using the Boostrap 3 or 4 versions of Summernote, or just jQuery if you use the Lite version of Summernote. Summernote allows you to customize the toolbar. You can compose a toolbar with pre-shipped buttons. Air-mode give an interface without the Toolbar. To reveal popover Toolbar, select a text where you want to modify. Simply turn on airMode and just focus on text. Styles change according to Bootstraps Theme. The editor uses the Bootswatch Themes based on Bootstrap 3, you can also do the same with Bootstrap 4. -
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HarfBuzz
Open source text shaping engine
HarfBuzz is an open source text-shaping engine with a C API that turns fonts and strings of character codes into a form that is correctly arranged for the corresponding language and writing system. This is essentially the process of text shaping: translating a string of character codes into a properly arranged sequence of glyphs that can be rendered onto a screen or into final output form for inclusion in a document. This shaping depends on a number of factors: the input string, the active font, the script (or writing system) of the string, and the string's language. Various font formats have their own set of standard text-shaping rules. With Harfbuzz, you can properly shape all the major writing systems. HarfBuzz is cross-platform and supports all major software platforms and font formats. -
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Lite XL
A lightweight text editor written in Lua
A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite. -
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CodeMirror
A versatile in-browser code editor
CodeMirror is a versatile in-browser code editor implemented in JavaScript. Made specifically for editing code, it comes with more than a hundred language modes and numerous addons for more advanced code editing functionality. CodeMirror comes with several useful features, including autocompletion, code folding, configurable key bindings, Linter integration and many more. It supports the standard desktop versions of the following browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer/ Edge. If you would like to customize CodeMirror to better suit your application and add new functionality, there's a rich programming API and a CSS theming system available for you. -
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Jodit Editor 3
Best WYSIWYG Editor for You
An excellent WYSIWYG editor written in pure TypeScript without the use of additional libraries. It's a file editor and image editor. -
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Lexical
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework
An extensible text editor framework that does things differently. Lexical is comprised of editor instances that each attach to a single content editable element. A set of editor states represent the current and pending states of the editor at any given time. Lexical is designed for everyone. It follows best practices established in WCAG and is compatible with screen readers and other assistive technologies. Lexical is minimal. It doesn't directly concern itself with UI components, toolbars or rich-text features and markdown. The logic for these features can be included via a plugin interface. It's super easy to get started with Lexical in any environment. Lexical is framework agnostic, but provides a set of bindings for React to help you get off the ground even quicker. After the initial setup, delightfully ergonomic APIs make building custom functionality straightforward and downright fun! -
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Markdown PDF
Markdown converter for Visual Studio Code
This extension converts Markdown files to PDF, HTML, PNG or JPEG files. -
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Markdownify
A minimal Markdown editor desktop app
Make changes, See changes. Instantly see what your Markdown documents look like in HTML as you create them. While you type, LivePreview will automatically scroll to the current location you're editing. The good old GitHub Flavored-style Markdown. So, you don't feel out of the place. Syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks with language identifiers and Markup languages. Change the color scheme of the editor based on your preferences. i.e to choose between Dark mode/Light mode. Supports emojis in the preview mode for when you need to express yourself via one. To clone and run this application, you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. Markdowinfy is built using Electron, Node.js, and some more awesome software packages. -
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Remarkable for Linux
The Markdown Editor for Linux
With Live Preview you can see your changes as you make them. There is no need to export first to check your syntax. This is accompanied by synchronized scrolling. Remarkable has Github Flavoured Markdown. This has a simple, easy-to-learn syntax with features like checklists, highlighting, links, images and more. Remarkable allows you to export your files to PDF and HTML from within the app. The HTML code is even prettified and PDFs have a TOC. You can style your markdown documents however you like. If you don't like the default styles you can use your own. The code you write is highlighted in the Live Preview. This makes Remarkable great for writing software documentation or even taking lecture notes. You can set up Remarkable whatever way you like. You can swap views, hide views and more. There is even a night mode. With MathJax support you can render beautiful, rich documents with advanced formatting. Keyboard shortcuts enable maximum productivity. -
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Uncap
Map Caps Lock to Escape or any key to any key
Map Caps Lock key to Escape key, or any to any key, on Windows systems. Apart from documenting how Uncap works on Windows, this README contains detailed documentation about how to remap keys on Linux and Mac as well. Map Caps Lock key to Escape key on a new Windows system with almost no effort. Just download and double-click. This is the primary reason why Uncap was written. This tool was written for users of vi/Vim editor who like to map their Caps Lock key to Escape key for convenience. Map any key to any key, multiple keys to other keys, or disable keys using command line arguments. No additional file or script is required. It is a single-file executable. It is very lightweight. The executable is only about 100 KB in size. It occupies less than 1 MB of memory and negligible CPU while running.
