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- Leafpad
- 'Leafpad' is a simple GTK+ based text editor. The user interface is similar to "notepad", and it aims to be lighter than GEdit and KWrite and to be as useful as them. It has no toolbar, which maximizes the text viewing area; a single document interface (SDI), to set out windows to view one at a time; and character coding autodetection, to open a file quickly without multi-codeset problems. 'Leafpad' is best used with a lightweight window manager such as xfce, rox, or Icewm.
- Less
- Less is a paginator file similar to 'more' or 'pg,' but that allows backward as well as forward movement through the file. In addition, it doesn't have to read the entire input file before starting, so it starts large files faster than text editors like vi. Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some terminals) so it can run on a variety of terminals; there is even limited support for hard copy terminals.
- Lesspipe.sh
- lesspipe.sh is an input filter for the pager 'less' as described in less's man page. It runs under a ksh-compatible shell (ksh, bash, zsh) and lets you use 'less' to view compressed files, archives, and files contained in archives. Viewing files by accessing a device file has been implemented for DOS filesystems and tar files only. The following formats are currently supported (both as plain and compressed files using compress, gzip, bzip2, or zip): tar, nroff, (sh)ar, executables, directories, RPM and Debian (.deb) Archives, Microsoft Word, files and PDF.
- Lhendraw
- Chemical drawing program for the cdx/cdxml formats. This one tries to be as close and completely as possible to the proprietary reference implementation without forfeiting the KISS principle. It offers a database-less search function and a headless mode for automated editing
- LiberaForms
- LiberaForms is a libre software tool developed as community, free, and ethical infrastructure that makes it easy to create and manage forms that respect the digital rights of the people who use it. With LiberaForms you can browse, edit, and download the answers to your forms; include a checkbox to require Data protection law consent, collaborate with other users by sharing permissions; and much more!
- Library to create PostScript files
- pslib is a C-library for generating PostScript files with little effort. It offers an easy way of generating PostScript text and graphics. Its text function are very sophisticated and support kerning, ligatures and some basic formatting. Hypertext functions are supported through pdfmarks which makes pslib in combination with ghostscript a viable alternative for libraries creating PDF.
- LibreOffice
- LibreOffice is a comprehensive office suite. It contains a number of components: Writer, a word processor; Calc, a spreadsheet application; Impress, a presentation engine; Draw, a drawing and flowcharting application; Base, a database and database frontend; Math for editing mathematics. There are also a good and growing number of free software extensions and templates available. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org, which is now called Apache OpenOffice. Because Apache OpenOffice hosts and recommends using proprietary extensions, we do not recommend using it.
- Libtecla
- The Tecla library provides programs with interactive command line editing facilities, similar to those of the unix tcsh shell. It supports recall and editing of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file names and application specific tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of filenames. The optionally reentrant modules which perform TAB completion and wild-card expansion are also available separately for general use.
- Lifeograph
- Lifeograph is an off-line and private journal and note taking application.
- Light Table
- Light Table is a next generation code editor written in Clojure and using Web technologies.
- Lime Text
- Lime Text is a powerful and elegant editor, aiming to be successor to Sublime Text. Lime has a few frontends (QML, command-line interface) that can be selectively used with the pluggable back-end.
- Linedit
- 'Linedit' is a readline-style library that provides customizable line editing features. It uses UFFI for foreign bindings, so it is (theoretically) portable. It supersedes Cl-readline. It functions as both a single line text reader and a nulti-line form reader. It has completion on packages and symbols in the current image, as well as on directories and filenames. It has unlimited undo, kill-ring, and history, as well as paren matching.
- Link Grammar
- The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax. The system assigns to a sentence a syntactic structure, which consists of a set of labeled links connecting pairs of words. The parser also produces a "constituent" representation of a sentence (showing noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.). The parser has a dictionary of about 60000 word forms. It covers a range of syntactic constructions, including many rare and idiomatic ones. The parser skips over the portions of the sentence that it cannot understand, and assigns some structure to the rest of the sentence. It can handle unknown vocabulary, and makes intelligent guesses from context and spelling about the syntactic categories of unknown words. It understands capitalization, numerical expressions, and various punctuation symbols.
- Lino
- Lino is an extension to Django. It replaces Django's admin interface by a fundamentally different approach of designing a web user interface. It adds features like field injection and plugin inheritance to make plugins more reusable.
- Listis
- Listis is a programs, that work with lists and can also be used as text editor
- Lout
- Lout is a document formatting system similar to LaTeX. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers and graphic display devices. Plain text and PDF (starting from version 3.12) output are also available. Furthermore, Lout is easily extended with definitions which are easier to write than troff or TeX macros because Lout is a high-level language. Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features, including:
- optimal paragraph breaking
- automatic hyphenation
- PostScript EPS file inclusion and generation
- equation formatting
- tables
- diagrams
- rotation and scaling
- sorted indexes
- bibliographic databases
- running headers and odd
- even pages
- automatic cross referencing
- multilingual documents including hyphenation (most European languages are supported, including Russian)
- formatting of C, C++, Java, Eiffel, and other programs
- Lpe
- Lpe is a small, fast, visual text editor designed to make editing code easier. It provides simultaneously all the features that may be required in a good code editor while preserving a light and intuitive feel that makes it nice to use. It supports seven different languages.
- Luacheck
- Luacheck is a static analyzer and also a linter for the Lua programming language. You can customize and configure the program to your likings the syntax supports Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3, Lua 5.4 and LuaJIT. The program is written in Lua too.
- LyX
- LyX is an advanced document processor. It encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance, allowing you to concentrate on writing rather than visual layout. It automates formatting according to predefined rule sets, yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents.
- M4
- M4 is an implementation of the M4 macro language, which features some extensions over other implementations, some of which are required by GNU Autoconf. It is used as a macro processor, which means it processes text, expanding macros as it encounters them. It also has some built-in functions, for example to run shell commands or to do arithmetic.
- MESICON
- Free software to assist in cataloguing challenging items in museum libraries (for example).
- Mad Builder
- Mad Builder PDF Assembler is a tool for assembling/merging pdf files, extracting information from PDF files, and updating PDF files metadata. In assembling mode (the default mode), it concatenates only pages, other than the outlines. Users can also add outlines via a definition file of outline. By default, file are sorted in alphabetic order before assembling.
- MagicPO
- MagicPO is a utility to automatically translate a gettext po-file from one language to another. It is useful for languages that are close to each other such as Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian BokmÃÂ¥l, and Norwegian BokmÃÂ¥l and Danish. It is also useful for automatically fixing common mistakes in files.
- Majix
- 'MajiX' transforms RTF files such as Microsoft Word documents into XML. It can convert headings, lists (numbered or not), simple tables, bold, italics, and underline.
- Man
- The man pager suite (man, apropos, and whatis) contains programs used to read most of the documentation on a GNU/ Linux system. The whatis and apropos programs are used to find documentation related to a particular subject.
- Man-db
- This package provides the man command. This utility is the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman, and zsoelim. This package uses the groff suite of programs to format and display the manual pages.
- Man2web
- 'man2web' converts man pages to HTML via a CGI program or the command line. It also handles keyword (apropos) searches and generates section indexes.
- Mandoc
- Mandoc is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals. It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. The main component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UTF-8 and ASCII UNIX terminals, HTML 5, PostScript, and PDF.
- Manuskript
- Manuscript is an organiser for writers. Split your work in smaller units, reorganise them on the go, keep tracks of characters, places, objects, etc.
- Manyapad
- A small, simple text editor. Features include the full range of standard editing features, as well as popup Menus for faster access to common commands, direct execution of various programs, and built-in compiling commands for C, C++ and Java Files.
- Markdown-mode
- Markdown Mode is a major mode for GNU Emacs for editing Markdown-formatted text files. It provides syntax highlighting and editing commands.
- Markdown2
- Markdown is a text-to-HTML filter; it translates an easy-to-read / easy-to-write structured text format into HTML. Markdown's text format is most similar to that of plain text email, and supports features such as headers, emphasis, code blocks, blockquotes, and links. This is a fast and complete Python implementation of the Markdown spec.
- MathEOS
- This is a text editor for writing math lessons and providing tools for doing all the exercises from elementary school to junior high. The software is especially designed to fulfil the needs of disabled pupils, and pupils suffering from dyspraxia in particular. The program manages the child's documents like a notebook, organized with chapters, and separating lessons, exercises and evaluations, making it very easy to navigate through the documents.
- Mc
- Midnight Commander is a command-line file manager laid out in a common two-pane format. In addition to standard file management tasks such as copying and moving, Midnight Commander also supports viewing the contents of RPM package files and other archives and managing files on other computers via FTP or FISH. It also includes a powerful text editor for opening text files. Emacs-like key bindings are used in all widgets.
- Md-toc
- ==Description==
The table of contents (a.k.a: TOC) generated by this program is designed to work with several markdown parsers such as the ones used by GitHub and GitLab.
Rules for generating the TOC are determined by the selected markdown parser. md-toc aimes infact to be as conformant as possible in respect to each one of them. This was possible by studying the available documentations and by reverse engineering the source codes.
GitHub and GitLab have introduced their version of the markdown TOC after md-toc and similar tools were created:
- in March 2021 GitHub added an interactive TOC button at the top-left of readme files. This system works for markdown and others
- GitLab added an extension called Table of contents to its Gitlab Flavored Mardown
Features
- works offline
- edits file in place using a TOC marker or output to standard output
- maximum heading level selection (1 to 6)
- list indentation based on heading, which can optionally be disabled
- outputs an ordered or unordered TOC list
- creates anchor links to markdown headings by default or a plain list as alternative
- checks if heading level is coherent: this avoid creating an erroneous TOC. This feature can be disabled if needed
- skip any number lines before generating the TOC
- can read content from standard input
- handles multiple files at once
- selection of newline string
- check if there is difference between existing TOC in file and newly generated one
- selection of list marker
- supports GitHub, GitLab, Commonmark, Redcarpet and others
- pre-commit md-toc hook
- Medit
- It features:
- Configurable syntax highlighting.
- Configurable keyboard accelerators.
- Multiplatform - works both on unix and windows.
- Plugins: can be written in C or Python.
- Configurable tools available from the main and context menus. They can be written in Python, or it can be a shell script, or in MooScript - simple builtin scripting lanugage.
- Incremental search, regular expression search/replace.
- grep and find frontends, builtin file selector and whatnot.
- Mellite
- Mellite is an environment for creating experimental computer-based music and sound art. It is a desktop application, allowing you to work with real-time and offline sound synthesis processes, combining multiple perspectives such as live improvisation, implementing sound installations, or working in DAW-like timeline views. Mellite runs on all major operating systems and can be used both in a purely graphical fashion, or by writing and connecting snippets in the Scala programming language.
- Metadata Cleaner
- Many files include hidden metadata which may be sensitive for business and personal reasons. Cameras record when / where a photo was taken, which camera, and more. Office documents add author and company information. Many other programs add metadata of various sorts that you may not want to have disclosed. Metadata Cleaner allows you to view the metadata in your files, and GET RID OF IT as much as possible. Not all data can be removed (yet) but it gets rid of as much as possible. The interface is a GUI, apparently Gnome based. It uses the mat2 library
- Metasite extractor
- Metasite extractor locates, downloads and packages as much GPL software as possible.
- Midica
- A Music programming language - translates source code into MIDI. Includes a player. Supports MIDI-Karaoke. Includes a MIDI analyzer. Supports several import and export formats. Can also be used to develop in other music programming languages like ALDA or ABC.
- MindForger
- Are you drowning in information, but starving for knowledge? Where do you keep your private remarks like ideas, personal plans, gift tips, how-tos, dreams, business vision, finance strategy, auto coaching notes? Loads of documents, sketches and remarks spread around the file system, cloud, web and Post-it notes? Are you affraid of your knowledge privacy? Are you able to find then once you create them? Do you know how are they mutually related when you read or write them? No? MindForger is open, free, well performing Markdown IDE which respects your privacy and enables security. MindForger is actually more than an editor or IDE - it's human mind inspired personal knowledge management tool.
- Mini Code Editor
- Free and lightweight code editor for your web applications. It has basic functions of a code editor, like code highlighting, tabs indentation and snippets to code faster Easily customizable via CSS
- Minimum Profit
- Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
- Minimum Profit 2
- Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more.
- Minised
- 'minised' is the fast, small sed originally distributed in the GNU toolkit and still distributed with Minix. The GNU Project removed it in favor of a sed built around an enhanced regexp package, but it's better for some uses (in particular, it's faster and less memory-intensive).
- Miscfiles
- Miscfiles is a collection of data files for airport codes, zip codes, a dictionary, and more.
Files include:
- abbrevs.talk, abbrevs.gen — Some common abbreviations used in electronic communication
- airport — List of three letter codes for some major airports
- ascii — A map of the ascii character set
- bcp-index.txt — Best Current Practice indexes. Internet standardization documents
- birthtoken — Traditional stone and flower for each month
- cities.dat — geographic coordinates of many major cities
- connectives — English `connectives'; prepositions, pronouns, and the like
- countries — country abbreviations and names and capital cities
- currency — currency abbreviations and names
- fyi-index.txt — For Your Information indexes. Internet standardization documents
- GNU-manifesto — The GNU Manifesto
- inter.phone — International country telephone codes
- languages — two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639-1
- latin1 — like `ascii'; describing the ISO Latin-1 character set
- mailinglists — Description of all the public Project GNU related mailing lists
- na.phone — North American (+1) telephone area codes
- na.postalcodes — postal codes for US states and Canadian provinces
- operator — Precedence table for operators in the C language
- propernames — Some common proper names
- rfc-index.txt — Request for comments indexes. Internet standardization documents
- std-index.txt — Standard indexes of internet standardization documents
- std-index.txt — Indexes of internet standardization documents
- top-level.domains — Top-level domains, based on IANA
- unicode — The official Unicode character set table
- web2 — Webster's Second International English wordlist
- web2a — Webster's Second Internations appendix english wordlist
- Mit-scheme
- Mit-scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large runtime library. MIT/GNU Scheme is best suited to programming large applications with a rapid development cycle.
- MkDoxy
- mkDoxy is to makefiles what Doxygen is to source files: it parses a makefile and produces HTML documentation of available targets and macros. It considers only comments starting with ##, so it's easy to control the documentation that's generated.
- Mod xslt
- mod-xslt is an Apache module that converts XML files into HTML files on the fly using XSLT stylesheets. It was written to overcome most of the limits of similar modules and uses a standard API, which can be used for other applications or to support more servers. It can dynamically parse generated documents, both in POST and GET requests, includes a fully featured language to choose the stylesheet to load from both configuration files and from .xml files, and allows stylesheets to access server variables. It supports redirects, dynamically generated stylesheets, and Apache versions 1 and 2.
- Moe
- Moe is a powerful-but-simple-to-use text editor. It works in a modeless manner, and features an intuitive set of key-bindings that assign a degree of severity to each key; for example, key combinations with the Alt key are for harmless commands like cursor movements while combinations with the Control key are for commands that will modify the text. Moe features multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo, unlimited line length, global search and replace, and more.
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