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.
Mined was the first text mode editor with Unicode support. It now has both
extensive Unicode and CJK support offering many specific features and
covering special cases that other editors are not aware of (like auto-
detection features and automatic handling of terminal variations).
And basically, it is an editor tailored to efficient editing of plain text
documents and programs, with features and interactive behaviour designed
for this purpose.
Tetradraw is a fully featured ANSI art editor for Unix operating systems.
ANSI art is only made up of the ASCII characters with 16 colours. ANSI art is
mainly used in text mode interfaces. Tetradraw is the first completly usable
ANSI art editor for Unix operating systems. Tetradraw does not just emulate
the ANSI editors for DOS: it also allows two artists to edit the same image
simultaneously over the Internet.
'Consola Mono' is the monospace font especially created for programming, text
editors and for terminal-use.
'Consola Mono' is a Unicode typeface font that supports all languages that use
the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic script and its variants, and could be expanded to
support other scripts.
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# This program is Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988 by Jonathan Payne. JOVE #
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Jove is a simple text editor in the spirit of GNU emacs, but somewhat
smaller and faster to start up.
There are man pages for jove and teachjove. Teachjove is for people who
have never used EMACS style editors. It is an interactive tutorial, THE
tutorial written by Stallman for the original EMACS, only slightly
modified for JOVE in the appropriate places. The man pages are
completely up to date, thanks to me.
This ports contains multilingualized nex/nvi.
nex/nvi is a freely redistributable implementation of ex/vi text
editors originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley
Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California,
Berkeley.
Multilingual patch enables you to use the following multilingual
encoding methods, such as:
none iso-8859-[1234789] latin1 latin2
euc-jp-1978 euc-jp euc-jp-1983 euc-jp-1990 euc-cn euc-kr
iso-2022-cn iso-2022-jp iso-2022-kr
iso-2022-7-1 iso-2022-7-2 iso-2022-8-2
sjis big5 hz euc-tw
Multilingual support has been set up to use some of the above (guess from
the name of the ports/packages) as default value.
You can change encoding style on the fly, or by setting up ~/.exrc.
With configurations, for Japanese encodings, you can also enjoy the
embedded canna support.
See /usr/local/share/vi/README.* for details of multilingual patch.
jEdit is an Open Source programmer's text editor written in Java. It is
released under the GNU General Public License. jEdit was written for Java 1.1
with Swing 1.1, and also runs under Java 2.
As far as text editors written in Java go, jEdit is one of the best. It has an
easy to use, intuitive interface, and enough features and flexibility to please
even the most hard-core programmer. A very incomplete list of jEdit's features
follows.
o Syntax highlighting for 200+ file types (including C, C++, Java, Perl, etc)
o Semi-intelligent auto indent in C, C++ and Java modes
o Bracket highlighting and matching
o Powerful macro system
o Auto-expanding abbreviations for the frequiently used strings
o Powerful search and replace - supports regular expressions and multiple file
search/replace; Search and replace operations can be recorded in macros
o Any number of strings and caret positions can be stored for later use in
so-called registers
o Rectangular selections for working with column-based files
o Any number of editor windows can be opened, and each view can be split into
multiple panes for side-by-side viewing of multiple files
o Unlimited undo/redo
This is the original BSD ex/vi, updated to build and run on modern
Unix systems. Compared to most of its many clones, the original vi is
a rather small program (~120 KB code on i386) just with its extremely
powerful editing interface, but lacking fancy features like multiple
undo, multiple screens or syntax highlighting. In other words, it is a
typical Unix program that does exactly what it should and nothing more.
I intend to preserve this style in maintaining my port, except for
changes to achieve POSIX.2 standards compliance, features in the SVR4
versions of vi, and, of course, bug fixes.
AbiWord is an open-source, cross-platform WYSIWYG word processor. It works
on Windows and most Unix Systems.
Features include:
- Basic character formatting (bold, underline, italics, etc.)
- Paragraph alignment
- Spell-check
- Import of Word97 and RTF documents
- Export to RTF, Text, HTML, and LaTeX formats
- Interactive rulers and tabs
- Styles
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Multiple column control
- Widow/orphan control
- Find/Replace
- Anti-aliased fonts
- Images
For more information, or to see screenshots, visit the AbiSource home page.