Gate is text-gatherer. A text-gatherer is like a text-editor, but much
more lightweight and unobtrusive.
If you have a program or shell script that asks people to enter a small
chunk of text, a text-gatherer like Gate is a good way to do it. It
doesn't clear the screen (annoying if there were just some instructions
printed there). It doesn't require you to know a lot of obscure editing
commands. It doesn't make excessive demands on the intelligence of your
terminal emulation software.
It does provide a number of features that make it easier for novice users
to produce good text. It does word-wrap, prints a prompt on each new line,
and allows backspacing from the currently line onto previous lines. It
also provides features that a more experienced user can use. You can call
up normal editor, or use some of gate's simple-minded editing
commands. You can read in files, or save your text to a file. You can
filter your text through something like the Unix "fmt" command. It
provides a nice spell-checking interface too.
gEdit is a Gtk+ 3 text editor. Its features include:
* Complete integration with the GNOME Environment, including GnomeMDI
* Global Search and Replace
* Dynamically loaded fonts
* Splitscreen Mode
* Printing support
* Configurable Plugins system
* Unlimited Undo/Redo
gwrite is an HTML format text editor.
Features:
1. HTML5 file format
2. Standard word processing user interface
3. Content structure oriented word processing
4. Title style table of contents production
5. Similar navigation/documentation views in Microsoft Word
6. Paragraph selection when double or right click in navigation view
7. Word count: for document or selections, count the words(with and
without spaces), paragraphs, lines, English words, Chinese characters.
8. Images inclusion via Base64
HexCurse is a versatile ncurses-based hex editor written in C that provides
the user with many features. It currently supports searching, hex, and decimal
address output, jumping to specified locations in a file, and quick keyboard
shortcuts to commands.
JOE is the professional freeware ASCII text screen editor for UNIX.
It makes full use of the power and versatility of UNIX, but lacks the steep
learning curve and basic nonsense you have to deal with in every other UNIX
editor. JOE has the feel of most IBM PC text editors: The key-sequences are
reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo-C. JOE is much more powerful than those
editors, however. JOE has all of the features a UNIX user should expect:
full use of termcap/terminfo, excellent screen update optimizations (JOE is
fully useable at 2400 baud), simple installation, and all of the
UNIX-integration features of VI.
Award-winning editing for dynamic languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
and Tcl; plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML
and XML.
Background syntax checking and syntax coloring catch errors immediately,
while autocomplete and calltips guide you as you write.
Jupp is the portable version of Joe's Own Editor. This version has been
enhanced by several functions intended for programmers or other professional
users, and has a lot of bugs fixed. It is based upon an older version of
joe because these behave better overall.
Jupp also does come with the editor flavours known from joe, specifically,
jmacs, joe, jpico, jstar, and rjoe. Not all features of jupp are available
for these though (but all the bugfixes, and syntax highlighting is still
enabled by default for these, while it is not auto-enabled in jupp).
JOE is the professional freeware ASCII text screen editor for UNIX. It makes
full use of the power and versatility of UNIX, but lacks the steep learning
curve and basic nonsense you have to deal with in every other UNIX editor. JOE
has the feel of most IBM PC text editors: the key-sequences are reminiscent of
WordStar and Turbo-C. JOE is much more powerful than those editors, however.
JOE has all of the features a UNIX user should expect: full use of
termcap/terminfo, excellent screen update optimizations (JOE is fully usable at
2400 baud), simple installation, and all of the UNIX-integration features of
VI.
JOE now has UTF-8 support and Syntax Highlighting.
Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.
Minimum Profit is an easy to use programmer's text editor. Its features:
- Syntax highlighting for many popular languages and file formats
- Fully scriptable using a C-like scripting language
- Unlimited undo levels; configurable keys, menus, and colors
- Can edit multiple files at the same time (shared copy/paste buffer)
- Creative use of tags, symbol name auto-completion
- Intelligent, context-dependent help system
- Automatic indentation, word wrapping, internal grep, etc.
- Spellchecking support (via the ispell package)
- Multilingual; has complete Unicode support