Mg (mg) is a GNU Emacs style editor, with which it is "broadly" compatible. This is a portable version of the mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.

The edlin program is a small line editor, written for FreeDOS as a functional clone of the old MS-DOS program edlin.

GNU nano is a small and simple text editor for use in a terminal. Besides basic editing, it supports: undo/redo, syntax highlighting, spell checking, justifying, auto-indentation, bracket matching, interactive search-and-replace (with regular expressions), and the editing of multiple files.

Lem is a Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility.

e3 is a micro text editor with an executable code size between 3800 and 35000 bytes. Except for ``syntax highlighting'', the e3 binary supports all of the basic functions one expects plus built in arithmetic calculations. UTF-8 coding of unicode characters is supported as well. e3 can use Wordstar-, EMACS-, Pico, Nedit or vi-like key bindings. e3 can be used on 16, 32, and 64-bit CPUs.

Vi is the original screen based text editor for Unix systems. It is considered the standard text editor, and is available on almost all Unix systems. Nvi is intended as a "bug-for-bug compatible" clone of the original BSD vi editor. As such, it doesn't have a lot of snazzy features as do some of the other vi clones such as elvis and vim. However, if all you want is vi, this is the one to get.

Jed is a powerful programmer's editor using the S-Lang scripting language for configuration and extensibility. It provides emulation modes for the key bindings of many editors (including Emacs and WordStar), and has syntax highlighting for dozens of languages. Jed is very small and fast.

XNEdit is a fast and classic X11 text editor, based on NEdit, with full unicode support and antialiased text rendering.

This package provides a modeless text editor with menu bar. It supports syntax highlighting, regular expressions, configurable menus, keybindings, autocomplete and unlimited undo. It can pipe a marked block of text through any command line filter. It can also open very large binary files. It was originally developed on the Amiga 3000T.

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor written in Rust.

Note: This build disables WebRTC (libwebrtc) support because libwebrtc is not yet packaged in Guix. As a result, voice and video calls in collaborative sessions are not available. Text-based collaboration, editing, and all other features work normally.

kak-lsp is a Language Server Protocol client for Kakoune implemented in Rust.

JOE is a powerful console screen editor with a "mode-less" user interface similar to many user-friendly editors. JOE has some of the key bindings and many of the powerful features of GNU Emacs.

dte is a portable console text editor with features like multiple buffers/tabs, syntax highlighting, customizable color scheme (including support for 24-bit true colours), kitty keyboard protocol, editorconfig support, amongst other features.

Hexer is a multi-buffer editor for binary files for Unix-like systems that displays its buffer(s) as a hex dump. The user interface is kept similar to vi/ex.

Leafpad is a GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Leafpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, requires few libraries, and starts up quickly.

EditorConfig makes it easy to maintain the correct coding style when switching between different text editors and between different projects. The EditorConfig project maintains a file format and plugins for various text editors which allow this file format to be read and used by those editors.

Jupp is the portable version of JOE’s Own Editor. It has been enhanced by functions intended for programmers or other professional users. It comes with the editor flavors known from joe, specifically, jmacs, joe, jpico, jstar, and rjoe.

A soft fork of Helix which introduces keybindings and other features to make it more comfortable for Vim users. Changes include:

• Vim keybindings

• Adjusted behaviours and defaults for Visual line mode

• Basic Vim modeline support

• Support for colored/rainbow indentation guides

• Minimalistic window separator

Moreover, evil-helix introduces the editor.evil option, which is true by default. It can be set to false to completely deactivate evil-helix behavior without having to use a different build.

mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C. Notable features include: full Unicode support, syntax highlighting, scriptable rc file, macros, search and replace (PCRE), window splitting, multiple cursors, and integration with various shell commands.

GNU TeXmacs is a text editing platform which is specialized for scientists. It is ideal for editing structured documents with different types of content. It has robust support for mathematical formulas and plots. It can also act as an interface to external mathematical programs such as R and Octave. TeXmacs is completely extensible via Guile.

L3afpad is a GTK+ 3 text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. L3afpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, requires few libraries, and starts up quickly. L3afpad is a fork of Leafpad that uses GTK+ 3 instead of GTK+ 2.

Fe is a small folding editor. It folds arbitrary text regions; it is not bound to syntactic units.

Fe has no configuration or extension language and requires no setup. Its user interface is emacs-like and it has menus for the very most important functions to help beginners. Further there is a reference card. It offers:

• Regions and Emacs-like kill ring

• Incremental search

• Keyboard macros

• Editing binary files

• Multiple windows and views

• Compose function for Latin 1 characters

FeatherPad is a lightweight, Qt-based text editor, offering features like syntax highlighting, tabbed interface, and customizable settings.

GNU Moe is a powerful-but-simple-to-use text editor. It works in a modeless manner, and features an intuitive set of key-bindings that assign a degree of severity to each key; for example, key combinations with the Alt key are for harmless commands like cursor movements while combinations with the Control key are for commands that will modify the text. Moe features multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo, unlimited line length, global search and replace, and more.