Open Source Text Editors
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Browse free open source Text Editors and projects for Windows and BSD 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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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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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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Kile LaTeX Editor
Kile is a feature-rich LaTeX editor
Kile is a LaTeX editor, a TeX shell that simplifies the creation of LaTeX documents. -
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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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WikidPad is a wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.
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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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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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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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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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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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Madedit-Mod
MadEdit-Mod is a cross platform Text/Hex editor based on MadEdit
Madedit-Mod is a cross platform text/hex editor base on MadEdit with a log of critical bug fix from me or other developers. A lot of new features were added, such as Drag-Drop Edit(cross platform), Highlight word, etc. The reason that I maintained this project is that the author of MadEdit had not worked on it for for a long time and I really like it and need more features. Find more information on Wiki pages. Currently supported Languages: English Chinese Simplified (zh_CN) Chinese Traditional(zh_TW) German(de_DE) (Not done) Greek(el) Italian(it_IT) (Not done) Japanese(ja_JP) Polish(pl_PL) (Not done) Russian(ru_RU) (Not done) Spanish(es) (Not done) You may help to add more translation for MadEdit-Mod by Poedit https://poedit.net -
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Cream (for Vim)
Cream is a free, easy-to-use configuration of the Vim text editor
Cream is a free, easy-to-use configuration of the famous Vim text editor for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD. It uses common menus, standard keyboard shortcuts, and has extensive editing functions for the beginner and expert alike. UPDATE: Development has slowed recently due to the author's full time endeavor to begin an architectural practice (http://SteveHallArchitecture.com). But the project still continues to build gVim installers and add minor features and bug fixes in the Cream source code. -
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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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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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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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Docear
An Academic Literature Suite
Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley. -
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ODF-UOF Converter provides a way to convert the docs(text/spreadsheet/presentation) between Open Document Format for Office Application(ODF) and Chinese office file format based on XML(UOF).
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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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Chinese Emacs Configuration(emacs_chinese) provide chinese configuration of gnu emacs under popular OS(windows, Linux, Freebsd,etc), also provide a lot of emacs package configurations. I just want to simplify the installation and custmaization of gnu emac
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Convert Chinese Simplified(GB2312) to Chinese Traditional(Big5).It can be used in HTML,txt and so on .It is easy to convert a site once.
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This is a component type of toolkit, which can be used to build a HTML rich editor. Developers can use them to build a rich editor rapidly, Or they can easily debug and develop other User Interface Components from this foundation again.
