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This section holds many text editors that can be run from the Linux command prompt. You will find many feature rich editors such as emacs and vi clones as well as easy to use editors like joe.

Another Easy Editor

• Version: Stable 2.2.1
• Byte Size:  173.2 KB (177,363 bytes)
• License: Artistic License
• Revision Date: January 17th, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.users.uswest.net/~hmahon/sources/
• Description: An easy to use text editor. Intended to be usable with little or no instruction. Provides both a terminal (curses based) interface and native X11 interface. Features include pop-up menus, journalling, cut-and-paste, and multiple buffers.
  

Bed - Binary EDitor

• Version: Stable 0.0.9
• Byte Size:  112.9 KB (115,607 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 18, 1999
• Home Page: http://members.tripod.com/~bedlinux/
• Binary: ELF
• Description: Menu driven Binary Editor. Contains copy, past, undo, redo, search, replace, marks, marklisting, mark stepping, Ascii, Decimal, Hexadecimal, Binary and Octal dataformats, Multiple files on one screen, It has practical no limit on filesize, it has color, key configuration and plugin support.
  

BVI

• Version: Stable 1.2.0
• Byte Size:  131.5 KB (134,685 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 2, 1999
• Home Page: http://bvi.linuxbox.com/
• Binary: Solaris
• Description: BVI is an editor for binary files using common vi commands and additional commands for binary search and substitution.
  

CliqAccesories

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  3.9 MB (4,141,648 bytes)
• License: Shareware
• Revision Date: November 25, 1998
• Cost: $25.00
• Evaluation Period: 30 Days
• Home Page: http://www.quad.com/linux.htm
• Description: A collection of tools and accessories for CliqWord and other Cliq components. Applications include a sophisticated but easy to use mail management System, an invaluable tool for the time management, it allows you store all your contact information for easy reference, helps you keep track of just about anything through a notepad, and a full-function calculator.
  

CliqPage

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  3.2 MB (3,351,822 bytes)
• License: Shareware
• Revision Date: November 25, 1998
• Cost: $25.00
• Evaluation Period: 30 Days
• Home Page: http://www.quad.com/linux.htm
• Description: Provides a desktop published look to CliqWord documents. This typesetting option allows expanded font support, character kerning, graphics, and the ability to include graphics files in a variety of formats.
  

CliqWord

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  5.9 MB (6,151,243 bytes)
• License: Shareware
• Revision Date: November 25, 1998
• Cost: $25.00 (For whole Cliq Office Suite)
• Evaluation Period: 30 Days
• Home Page: http://www.quad.com/linux.htm
• Description: Facility rich, function key oriented word processor with an intuitive user interface. Features include powerful formatting capabilities, programmable Records Processing (ie. data extraction, manipulation and mail merge facilities), clipboard, multiple adjustable edit windows and multilingual operation.
  

Elvis

• Version: Stable 2.1_4
• Byte Size:  1.0 MB (1,052,052 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 27, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/
• Binary: RPM Sparc
• Description: Elvis is a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Elvis supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and ex mode. Elvis adds support for multiple files, multiple windows, a variety of display modes, on-line help, and other miscellaneous extensions.
  

Emacs

• Version: Stable 20.6
• Byte Size:  14.3 MB (15,036,504 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 1, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
• Binary: PPC RPM
• Description: Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Emacs has special code editing modes, a scripting language (elisp), and comes with many packages for doing mail, news and more, all in your editor.
  

JE - Yet Another Editor Editor

• Version: Stable 1.4
• Byte Size:  74.7 KB (76,530 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 15, 1998
• Binary: RPM
• Description: A very simple to use C/C++ and text files editor for Linux. It provides C/C++ syntax color enhancements and other things. The help is always on the screen. A lot of user settings. User interface in English or in French.
  

JED

• Version: Stable 99-8
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 14, 1999
• Home Page: http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html
• Description: Powerful editor with syntax highlighting for Pascal, Java, Perl, C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, IDL, DCL, NROFF, PostScript, and Basic. Includes support for TeX documents.
  

Joe

• Version: Stable 2.8
• Byte Size:  314.6 KB (322,108 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 15, 1998
• Binary: RPM
• Description: Joe is a friendly and easy to use editor. It has a nice interface and would be a good choice for a novice needing a text editor. It uses the same WordStar keybindings which are also used by Borland's development environment.
  

Le

• Version: Stable 1.5.5
• Byte Size:  224.0 KB (229,376 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 7, 1999
• Binary: RPM
• Description: Le has many block operations with stream and rectangular blocks, can edit both unix and dos style files, is binary clean, has hex mode, can edit files and mappable devices in mmap shared mode, has tunable syntax highlighting, tunable color scheme, tunable key map. It is slightly similar to Norton Editor.
  

less

• Version: Stable 352
• Byte Size:  220.0 KB (225,280 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 10th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.flash.net/~marknu/less/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: less is a simple pager (text viewer). It is like more only less. In addition to all of more's features, it supports backwards scrolling and different character sets.
  

Lpe

• Version: Stable 1.2.2
• Byte Size:  254.5 KB (260,643 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 30, 1999
• Home Page: http://cdsmith.twu.net/lpe/
• Binary: RedHat Source
• Description: Lpe is a lightweight text-based editor that is designed for the minimalist approach to editing, with a stripped binary under 20k, but still supporting a wide variety of terminal types.
  

Pico

• Version: Stable 4.5
• Byte Size:  239.7 KB (245,488 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 23, 1998
• Home Page: http://www.washington.edu/pine/
• Description: I have used this editor for 5 years now to create every TUCOWS site, It is simple, clean and very functional. Give it a try, you will love it. I guess this is not really worthy of 5, so mainly I give it for sentiment. If you want an accurate rating, I would say 3.
  

Pre_Html

• Version: Stable 0.4.2
• Byte Size:  12.1 KB (12,419 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 21, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.losteden.demon.nl/nonfrm/pre_html.html
• Description: Pre_Html is a very simple HTML preprocessor written in Perl. It supports two "tags". One for including other files, and one for inserting the last modification date.
  

SDF

• Version: Stable 2.00.1
• Byte Size:  799.1 KB (818,230 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 02, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.mincom.com/mtr/sdf/
• Description: SDF is a freely available documentation system designed and developed by Ian Clatworthy, with help from many others. Based on a simple, readable markup language, SDF generates high quality output in multiple formats, all derived from a single document source. Supported output formats include HTML, PostScript, PDF, man pages, POD, LaTeX, SGML, MIMS HTX and F6 help, MIF, RTF, Windows help and plain text.
  

Stupid Text Editor

• Version: Stable 0.3.0
• Byte Size:  39.2 KB (40,160 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 12, 1998
• Home Page: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/terminal
• Description: A very small and simple ncurses-based text editor. Comes with a psychedelic mode option, if you think other text editors are too boring. Supports multi-byte characters on Linux console/office.
  

tip

• Version: Stable 0.7.0
• Byte Size:  52.9 KB (54,188 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 29, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors
• Description: A GPLed Pico clone with some enhancements.
  

Vim

• Version: Stable 5.6a
• Byte Size:  1.2 MB (1,210,746 bytes)
• License: Free But Restricted
• Revision Date: December 19, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.vim.org/
• Binary: RPM, PPC Alpha
• Description: Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added including multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, and block operations.
  

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