Editors for Linux

Bluefish

Version Number: 2.0.1
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 1MB
License: GPL
Home Page: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl
Author: Beslist
Source Code: N/A
Description: Bluefish is a powerful editor aimed at programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. Bluefish is not a WYSIWYG text editor. Syntax highlighting, advanced search/replace functionality, scalability and language function references help to make Bluefish a useful tool for development.

Version Number: 2.30.2
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 1MB
License: GPL
Home Page: http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
Author: Gnome
Source Code: N/A
Description: gedit is a small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME environment. gedit uses a Multiple Document Interface (MDI), which lets you edit more than one document at the same time.

Version Number: 4.3
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 2MB
License: Freeware
Home Page: http://www.jedit.org
Author: N/A
Source Code: http://www.jedit.org
Description: jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Version Number: 2.5.10
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 1MB
License: LGPL
Home Page: http://www.kate-editor.org/kate
Author: Kate
Source Code: N/A
Description: Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the kwrite editing widget of KDE, offering all the features of that plus a bunch of its own. Kate has been been moved to the kdebase package, and is a built-in part of your favorite desktop since release 2.2.

Version Number: 0.8
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 11MB
License: LGPL
Home Page: http://kompozer.net/
Author: KompoZer
Source Code: N/A
Description: KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be easy to use, making it suitable for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without having to know HTML or web coding.

Version Number: 5.5
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 1MB
License: GPL
Home Page: http://www.nedit.org
Author: NEdit
Source Code: N/A
Description: NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text processors, and other tools, but at the same time can be used productively by just about anyone who needs to edit text. NEdit, which is entirely a volunteer effort, benefits from a strong developer and user community. As of version 5.1, NEdit may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Version Number: 3.5.9
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 5MB
License: Freeware
Home Page: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org
Author: KDE Web Dev Team
Source Code: N/A
Description: Quanta Plus is a web development tool for the K Desktop Environment. Quanta Plus is designed for quick web development and is rapidly becoming a mature editor with an extensive feature set. Although Quanta Plus is a powerful HTML editor, it's focus has extended to be an all-purpose web development environment. It is more than a HTML editor, although the majority of its users are using Quanta+ to create web pages (HTML and PHP). Quanta+ supports a lot of markup and script languages, and the number of supported languages can be easily extended.

Version Number: 0.16.1
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 5MB
License: Freeware
Home Page: http://www.screem.org
Author: SCREEN
Source Code: N/A
Description: SCREEM (Site CReating and Editing EnvironMent) is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintenance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc within your site. Unlike most other web site / HTML editors SCREEM does not provide a WYSIWYG display of pages. Instead you are presented with the raw html source in its editor window. It is written for use with the GNOME desktop environment.

Version Number: 7.2
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 1.5MB
License: Freeware
Home Page: http://www.vim.org
Author: XEmacs
Source Code: N/A
Description: Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. This editor is very useful for editing programs and other plain ASCII files. All commands are given with normal keyboard characters, so those who can type with ten fingers can work very fast. Additionally, function keys can be defined by the user, and the mouse can be used.

Version Number: 21.4
Revision Date: N/A
Byte Size: 1.5MB
License: Freeware
Home Page: http://www.xemacs.org
Author: XEmacs
Source Code: N/A
Description: XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. It is protected under the GNU Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs.