Text editors

Open source text editing for your website with CKEditor

AnnaTomanek — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Open source text editing for your website with CKEditor AnnaTomanek Mon, 04/03/2023 - 03:00

Use the power of JavaScript and CKEditor to bring rich text editing to your website.

Most applications allow users to create and add some textual content, such as a comment, a chat message, an article, a product description, or a legal document. Today, plain…

4 open source editors I use for my writing

alanfd_oss — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

4 open source editors I use for my writing alanfd_oss Thu, 10/20/2022 - 03:00

In celebration of the National Council of Teachers of English NCTE National Day on Writing 2022, I thought I'd share a few of my favorite open source writing tools.

I've done a lot of writing throughout my career, mostly as an IT consultant creating product documentation as client deliverables. These documents generally provide…

Document your source code with Doxygen on Linux

hANSIc99 — Thu, 26 May 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Document your source code with Doxygen on Linux hANSIc99 Thu, 05/26/2022 - 03:00

This widely used open source tool can generate documentation from your comments.

When trying to familiarize yourself with someone else's project, you usually appreciate the comments left behind that help you understand the meaning of their code. In the…

4 Vim features to use to improve productivity

HunterC — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000

4 Vim features to use to improve productivity HunterC Tue, 03/01/2022 - 03:00

Vim has so many tricks up its sleeve that even people who have used it for years can still learn new things.

There's always Vim. Vim is one of the most popular text editors in use today. This is in large part because it's available everywhere. When you SSH into another system, you…

Edit text on Linux with KWrite and Kate

sethkenlon — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Edit text on Linux with KWrite and Kate sethkenlon Thu, 02/17/2022 - 03:00

Two Linux KDE text editors. One powerful KTextEditor.

A text editor is often a good example application to demonstrate what a programming framework is capable of producing. I myself have written at least three example text…

How I configure Vim as my default editor on Linux

dboth — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

How I configure Vim as my default editor on Linux dboth Mon, 02/14/2022 - 03:00

Vim is my favorite editor. These changes to my system make Vim available as the default in programs that use a different editor by default.

I have used Linux for about 25 years and Unix for a few years before that. During that time, I have developed preferences for some tools that I use daily. One of the most…

Why Mark Text is my favorite markdown editor

Don Watkins — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Why Mark Text is my favorite markdown editor Don Watkins Tue, 10/19/2021 - 03:00

Mark Text has tools that make it easy to write markdown while at the same time providing a simple interface that just gets out of my way.

I got introduced to the markdown format a few years ago when I began to explore Jupyter Notebooks. Many of the other writers at Opensource.com knew markdown, but it was a…

5 markdown editors I recommend trying

Don Watkins — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 07:01:00 +0000

5 markdown editors I recommend trying Don Watkins Wed, 10/13/2021 - 03:01

Everyone has their favorite markdown editor. Here are a few I have tried.

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Edit text like Emacs in FreeDOS

Jim Hall — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Edit text like Emacs in FreeDOS Jim Hall Tue, 06/22/2021 - 03:00

If you're already familiar with GNU Emacs, you should feel right at home in Freemacs.

On Linux, I often use the GNU Emacs editor to write the source code for new programs. I learned GNU Emacs long ago when I was an undergraduate student, and I still have the…

Use this nostalgic text editor on FreeDOS

Jim Hall — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Use this nostalgic text editor on FreeDOS Jim Hall Fri, 06/18/2021 - 03:00

Edlin is a joy to use when I want to edit text the "old school" way.

In the very early days of DOS, the standard editor was a no-frills line editor called Edlin. Tim Paterson wrote the original Edlin for the first version of DOS, then called 86…