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.

Manuskript provides a rich environment to help writers create their first draft and then further refine and edit their masterpiece. With Manuskript you can:

• Grow your premise from one sentence, to a paragraph, to a full summary,

• Create characters,

• Conceive plots,

• Construct outlines (Outline mode and/or Index cards),

• Write with focus (Distraction free mode),

• Build worlds,

• Track items,

• Edit and re-organize chapters and scenes,

• View Story line,

• Compose with fiction or non-fiction templates and writing modes,

• Import and export document formats such as HTML, ePub, OpenDocument, DocX, and more.

Additionally Manuskript can help in many more ways with a spell checker, markdown highlighter, frequency analyzer, and automatic save in plain text file format.

Geany is a small and fast Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that only has a few dependencies on other packages and is as independent as possible from special desktop environments like KDE or GNOME.

The basic features of Geany are:

• syntax highlighting

• code completion

• auto completion of often constructed constructs like if, for and while

• auto completion of XML and HTML tags

• call tips

• folding

• many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal

• symbol lists

• embedded terminal emulation

• extensibility through plugins

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.

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.

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.

Mogan is a scientific structural text editor, a fork of GNU TeXmacs.

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.

Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to Vi's ones, and it shares Vi's "keystrokes as a text editing language" model. Kakoune has a strong focus on interactivity, most commands provide immediate and incremental results, while still being competitive (as in keystroke count) with Vim.

Lite XL is derived from lite. It is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua. It aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

The aim of Lite XL compared to lite is to be more user-friendly, improve the quality of font rendering, and reduce CPU usage.

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.

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.

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.

Typstwriter is an integrated editor for the Typst typesetting system, including syntax highlighting and compiler output as well as file-system and document views presented in a clean, friendly Qt graphical interface.

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.

Text Pieces is a tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding, etc.

The basic features of Text Pieces are:

• Base64 encoding and decoding

• SHA-1, SHA-2 and MD5 checksums

• Prettify and minify JSON

• Covert JSON to YAML and vice versa

• Count lines, symbols and words

• Escape and unescape string, URL and HTML

• Remove leading and trailing whitespaces

• Sort and reverse sort lines

• Reverse lines and whole text

• You can write your own scripts and create custom tools

Scintilla is a source code editing component for GTK+. It has the usual features found in text editing components, as well as some that are especially useful for editing and debugging source code; these include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips. Styling choices are more open than with many editors: Scintilla lets you use proportional fonts, bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours, and multiple fonts.

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.

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

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.

A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.

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.

Vis aims to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like text editor. It extends vim's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command language.

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