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parinfer-rust 0.4.3
Dependencies: clang@13.0.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/justinbarclay/parinfer-rust
Licenses: Expat
Build system: cargo
Synopsis: Infer parentheses for Clojure, Lisp and Scheme
Description:

Parinfer is a plugin for Kakoune, Vim, Neovim and Emacs that infers parentheses and indentation. This library can be called from other editors that can load dynamic libraries.

featherpad 1.6.2
Dependencies: qtwayland@6.9.2 qtsvg@6.9.2 hunspell@1.7.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad
Licenses: GPL 3+
Build system: qt
Synopsis: Lightweight Qt plain-text editor
Description:

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

scintilla 5.5.1
Dependencies: gtk+@3.24.51
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://www.scintilla.org/
Licenses: HPND
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Code editor for GTK+
Description:

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.

qemacs 0.3.3
Dependencies: libx11@1.8.12 libxext@1.3.6 libxv@1.0.13
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://bellard.org/qemacs/
Licenses: LGPL 2.1+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Small but powerful text editor
Description:

QEmacs (for Quick Emacs) is a very small but powerful editor. It has features that even big editors lack:

  • Full screen editor with an Emacs look and feel with all Emacs common features: multi-buffer, multi-window, command mode, universal argument, keyboard macros, config file with C-like syntax, minibuffer with completion and history.

  • Can edit files of hundreds of Megabytes without being slow by using a highly optimized internal representation and by mmaping the file.

  • Full Unicode support, including multi charset handling (8859-x, UTF8, SJIS, EUC-JP, ...) and bidirectional editing respecting the Unicode bidi algorithm. Arabic and Indic scripts handling (in progress).

  • WYSIWYG HTML/XML/CSS2 mode graphical editing. Also supports Lynx like rendering on VT100 terminals.

  • WYSIWYG DocBook mode based on XML/CSS2 renderer.

  • C mode: coloring with immediate update. Emacs like auto-indent.

  • Shell mode: colorized VT100 emulation so that your shell work exactly as you expect. Compile mode with next/prev error.

  • Input methods for most languages, including Chinese (input methods come from the Yudit editor).

  • Hexadecimal editing mode with insertion and block commands. Unicode hexa editing is also supported.

  • Works on any VT100 terminals without termcap. UTF8 VT100 support included with double width glyphs.

  • X11 support. Support multiple proportional fonts at the same time (as XEmacs). X Input methods supported. Xft extension supported for anti aliased font display.

  • Small! Full version (including HTML/XML/CSS2/DocBook rendering and all charsets): 200KB big. Basic version (without bidir/unicode scripts/input/X11/C/Shell/HTML/Dired): 49KB.

jed 0.99-19
Dependencies: slang@2.3.3
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Programmer's editor using S-Lang scripting for configuration
Description:

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.

leafpad 0.8.18.1
Dependencies: gtk+@2.24.33
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Build system: glib-or-gtk
Synopsis: GTK+ based text editor
Description:

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.

vis 0.9
Dependencies: bash-minimal@5.2.37 lua@5.3.5 ncurses@6.2.20210619 libtermkey@0.22 lua-lpeg@1.1.0 tre@0.9.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/martanne/vis
Licenses: ISC Public Domain Expat
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Vim-like text editor
Description:

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.

lexilla 5.2.5
Dependencies: scintilla@5.5.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://www.scintilla.org/Lexilla.html
Licenses: HPND
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Language lexers for Scintilla
Description:

Lexilla is a library of language lexers that can be used with the Scintilla editing component.

hexer 1.0.6
Dependencies: ncurses@6.2.20210619
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://devel.ringlet.net/editors/hexer/
Licenses: Modified BSD
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Multi buffer editor for binary files with vi-like interface
Description:

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.

evil-helix 20250915
Dependencies: bash-minimal@5.2.37
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix
Licenses: MPL 2.0
Build system: cargo
Synopsis: Bringing the Helix editor to the evil side
Description:

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.

rassumfrassum 0.3.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/joaotavora/rassumfrassum
Licenses: GPL 3+
Build system: pyproject
Synopsis: LSP/JSON-RPC multiplexer
Description:

Rassumfrassum is a LSP/JSONRPC multiplexer that allows one LSP client (Emacs' eglot, Neovim, etc.) to connect to multiple language servers seamlessly.

mogan 1.1.1
Dependencies: curl@8.6.0 freetype@2.13.3 gnutls@3.8.9 libjpeg-turbo@2.1.4 libxcrypt@4.4.38 perl@5.36.0 python-wrapper@3.12.12 qtbase@5.15.17 qtsvg@5.15.17 qtwayland@5.15.18 sqlite@3.39.3
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/XmacsLabs/mogan
Licenses: GPL 3+
Build system: qt
Synopsis: Scientific structural text editor
Description:

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

parinfer-rust-emacs 0.4.7
Dependencies: clang@13.0.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/justinbarclay/parinfer-rust-emacs
Licenses: ISC
Build system: cargo
Synopsis: Emacs-centric fork of parinfer-rust
Description:

parinfer-rust-emacs is an Emacs-centric fork of parinfer-rust, itself an implementation of Shaun Lebron’s Parinfer. This builds a shared library intended to be loaded by the emacs-parinfer-rust-mode Emacs plugin, though a standalone binary is built also.

mg 20260227
Dependencies: diffutils@3.12 libbsd@0.11.7 ncurses@6.2.20210619
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/
Licenses: Public Domain
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Microscopic GNU Emacs clone
Description:

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.

dte 1.11.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/
Licenses: GPL 2
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Small and easy to use console text editor
Description:

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.

nvi 1.81.6
Dependencies: bdb@6.2.32 ncurses@6.2.20210619
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/the-berkeley-vi-editor-home-page
Licenses: Modified BSD
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: The Berkeley Vi Editor
Description:

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.

mle 1.8.1
Dependencies: lua@5.3.5 pcre2@10.42 uthash@2.1.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://github.com/adsr/mle
Licenses: ASL 2.0
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Small, flexible, terminal-based text editor
Description:

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.

kakoune 2026.05.21
Dependencies: bash-minimal@5.2.37 perl@5.36.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (gnu packages text-editors)
Home page: https://kakoune.org/
Licenses: Unlicense
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Vim-inspired code editor
Description:

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.

libconfuse 3.3
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/textutils.scm (gnu packages textutils)
Home page: https://github.com/martinh/libconfuse
Licenses: ISC
Build system: gnu
Synopsis: Configuration file parser library
Description:

libconfuse is a configuration file parser library. It supports sections and (lists of) values (strings, integers, floats, booleans or other sections), as well as some other features (such as single/double-quoted strings, environment variable expansion, functions and nested include statements).

tldr 3.4.3
Dependencies: python-colorama@0.4.6 python-termcolor@2.5.0 python-shtab@1.7.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/textutils.scm (gnu packages textutils)
Home page: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client
Licenses: Expat
Build system: pyproject
Synopsis: Command-line client for tldr pages
Description:

This package provides the tldr command allowing users to view tldr pages from a shell. The tldr pages are a community effort to simplify the man pages with practical examples described in https://tldr.sh/.

opencc 1.1.1
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/textutils.scm (gnu packages textutils)
Home page: https://github.com/BYVoid/OpenCC
Licenses: ASL 2.0
Build system: cmake
Synopsis: Convert between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Description:

Open Chinese Convert (OpenCC) converts between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, supporting character-level conversion, phrase-level conversion, variant conversion, and regional idioms among Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong-Kong.

miller 6.17.0
Channel: guix
Location: gnu/packages/textutils.scm (gnu packages textutils)
Home page: https://miller.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: FreeBSD
Build system: go
Synopsis: Text-formatted data processing tool
Description:

Miller (mlr) is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed. It supports format conversion and pretty-printing.

Total packages: 74011