Unix text editors

text editor, improved version of Vi

alt=Screenshot of Multics Emacs|thumb|Multics Emacs is an example of early Emacs implementations Emacs (), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s, and work on GNU Emacs, directly descended from the original, is ongoing; its latest version is , released .

keyboard-oriented text editor

gedit ( or ) is a text editor designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It was GNOME's default text editor and part of the GNOME Core Applications until GNOME version 42 in March 2022, which changed the default text editor to GNOME Text Editor. Designed as a general-purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use, with a clean and simple GUI, according to the philosophy of the GNOME project. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages. It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

text editor

free and open-source text and source code editor

Text editor

small, user-friendly console text editor

thumb|Customized Geany IDE

GNU version of the Emacs text editor

line-oriented text editor

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line editor for Unix systems

text editor for Unix and Unix-based computer systems

XEmacs is a graphical- and console-based text editor which runs on almost any Unix-like operating system as well as Microsoft Windows. XEmacs is a fork, based on a version of GNU Emacs from the late 1980s. Any user can download, use, and modify XEmacs as free software available under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

console screen editor

text editor

free text editor for dynamic programming languages

Emacs implementation by James Gosling

powerful vi/ex clone

ATOK (; ) is a Japanese input method editor (IME) produced by JustSystems, a Japanese software company.

nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley text editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD and, later, Unix systems. It was originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD).

text editor and IDE

Powerful text editor for MATE

text editor that combines aspects of vi and Emacs

Integrated Development Environment

public domain emacs-style minimalist text editor