text-editor
A general purpose, fast and lightweight editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface.
Built on LuaJIT and fully programmable using Lua or Moonscript.
Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.
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A Pure Emacs (no external packages) IDE like configuration.
A fast, powerful and modular Emacs configuration that favors built-in functionality over third-party packages.
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A minimalist text editor that lives in URL.
A minimalist text editor that lives entirely in your browser and stores everything in the URL hash.
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A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr supports your writing process at every stage — from initial notes to journal submission or book manuscript.
A Better Way to Work with Claude Code.
Nimbalyst is the free, local, WYSIWYG editor & session manager where you iterate with Claude Code on your full context: markdown docs, mockups, diagrams, data models, MCP, and code
The Terminal Text Editor.
Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast. Fresh is designed for discovery. It features native UIs, a full Menu system, and a powerful Command Palette. With full mouse support, transitioning from graphical editors is seamless.
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A lightweight code editor with vim mode, Git integration, and agentic AI editing.
Anvil is a graphical, multi-pane tiling editor that makes bold use of the mouse and integrates closely with the shell. It supports syntax highlighting, multiple cursors and selections, remote file editing, and contains a powerful text manipulation language.
CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal. It is open source project and can be used free of charge, even for business. It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3GHz. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, from EControl engine.
The Markdown Editor That's a Textarea.
A lightweight markdown editor library with perfect WYSIWYG alignment using an invisible textarea overlay technique. Includes optional toolbar. ~45KB minified with all features.
Simple & Fast Online Markdown Editor with Live Preview. Quickly and easily get started writing your markdown documents with MKEditor's rich set of features.
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CodiMD lets you collaborate in real-time with markdown. Built on HackMD source code, CodiMD lets you host and control your team's content with speed and ease.
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Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Lexical is an extensible JavaScript web text-editor framework with an emphasis on reliability, accessibility, and performance. Lexical aims to provide a best-in-class developer experience, so you can easily prototype and build features with confidence. Combined with a highly extensible architecture, Lexical allows developers to create unique text editing experiences that scale in size and functionality.
Etherpad is a highly customizable open source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.
Online Markdown Editor - the Last Markdown Editor ever.
Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible, AngularJS-powered HTML5 Markdown editor.
Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.