Text editors

Vim, Sublime Text and VS code are my favorite editors.
Vim for its text editing and the vim language and VS code for giving me the best of both worlds. The awesome Vim plugin and the amazing IDE like features. And Sublime Text for its speed and the awesome vim emulation.
Interesting editors
​Oni2 - Native, lightweight modal code editor. (HN)
​CodeMirror - In-browser code editor. (Code)
​CodeMirror 6 - Next generation of the CodeMirror in-browser editor. (Code)
​Awesome Online IDE​
​Iota - Terminal-based text editor written in Rust.
​SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.
​Kakoune - Code editor that implements Vi’s "keystrokes as a text editing language" model. (HN) (kak-lsp - Kakoune Language Server Protocol Client.) (plug.kak - Plugin manager for Kakoune) (The first two hours of Kakoune in two minutes)
​Lamdu - Open source live programming environment. Typed pure functional programming made easy, learnable, and efficient. (Web)
​Kibi - Text editor in ≤1024 lines of code, written in Rust.
​Monaco Editor - Code editor that powers VS Code. (Code)
​Monaco Editor React (Web)
​Monaco Editor React 2​
​Loop - Text editor built in Rust.
​o - Small, fast and limited text editor.
​RichEditorView - Rich Text Editor in Swift.
​lite - Lightweight text editor written in Lua. (Plugins) (Implementation Overview) (Cached Software Rendering)
​Blockly - Web-based, visual programming editor.
​Micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. (HN) (Web) (HN)
​Lime Text - Powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go.
​Geany - Fast and lightweight IDE. (Code) (HN)
​Xi Editor - Modern editor with a backend written in Rust. (Web) (Lobsters)
​Xi Editor macOS - macOS client for Xi text editing backend.
​Kiro - Terminal UTF-8 text editor written in Rust.
​TextMate - Graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later. (Web)
​Acme - Powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform.
​Nova - Native Mac code editor. (HN) (Lobsters) (Docs)
​Trix - Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. (Web)
​Ox - Fast text editor that runs in your terminal. (HN)
​Barliman - Prototype "smart editor" that performs real-time program synthesis.
​Sapling - Highly experimental code editor where you edit code, not text.
​Code Browser - Folding Text Editor. (HN)
​Scribble - Experimental terminal text-editor written in Rust.
​Uivonim - Fork of the Veonim Neovim GUI.
​novelWriter - Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. (Web) (HN)
​AX Editor - Code editor with syntax highlighting that runs in your terminal written completely in Swift.
​ghostwriter - Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. (Code)
​sam - Updated version of the sam text editor.
​Firepad - Collaborative Text Editor Powered by Firebase.
​Noteworthy - Markdown editor with bidirectional links and excellent math support, powered by ProseMirror. (Code)
​Texture - Visual editor for research.
​Amp - Complete text editor for your terminal. (Code)
​Atlas - Hopefully better engineering IDE. (HN)
​Noto - Beautiful and simple plain text editor for macOS written in Swift.
​Helix - Post-modern modal text editor. (Web) (HN)
​Tofu - Exploration in fluid code editing. (Code)
​ReVi - Vim inspired text editor.
​vis - Vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions.
​Led - Simple console-based text editor, written in Rust and using Ropey as its text buffer.
​react-tapable-editor - Pluginable, intuitive medium/notion like rich text editor.
​focus - Low-latency text editor in Zig.
​Lite XL - Lightweight text editor written in Lua. (Web) (HN)
​Plain web text editor​
​Opus - Minimal note-taking app.
​React Oxide - open source ReactJS code editor with tabs, files & webDAV. (HN)
​Tincta - Free text editor for Mac with focus on speed, stability and ease of use.
​Zee - Modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust.
​Glyph - Personal code editor built with Rust + OpenGL.
Web
​ProseMirror - Toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web. (Code) (Developer Tools for ProseMirror) (View Component) (Utils library for ProseMirror)
​Pragmatic ProseMirror guide​
​rich-markdown-editor - React and Prosemirror based editor that powers Outline and can also be used for displaying content in a read-only fashion.
​Remirror - ProseMirror toolkit for React. (Web)
​draft.js - React framework for building text editors.
​Draftail - Configurable rich text editor built with Draft.js.
​Eclipse Theia - Extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. (Code) (HN)
​Typewriter - Rich text editor based off of Quill.js and Ultradom, and using Svelte for UI.
​CodeJar - Micro code editor.
​tiptap - Headless editor framework for web artisans. (Code)
​Marky Marked - Lightweight in-browser content editor combining Markdown with the typical WYSIWYG toolbar.
​yace - Yet another code editor for browser.
​Slate - Completely customizable framework for building rich text editors.
​TinyMCE - Advanced WYSIWYG HTML Editor.
​ReactQuill - Quill component for React. (Web)
​Quill - Powerful rich text editor. (Code) (Awesome Quill)
​react-codemirror2 - Codemirror integrated components for React.
​react-simple-code-editor - Simple no-frills code editor with syntax highlighting.
​React SimpleMDE - React wrapper for SimpleMDE markdown editor.
​SharePad.io - Collaborative code editor and compiler.
​Math Writer - Rich Text Math Editing on the Web. (Code)
​Plastic Editor - Block-based editor, just like Roam Research. (Code)
​Plastic - Block-based bi-directional note app. Works locally.
​Ace - High Performance Code Editor for the Web. (Code)
​Copenhagen - Free, lightweight and hackable open source code editor for the web.
​Milkdown - WYSIWYG markdown editor.
​Rustpad - Efficient and minimal collaborative text editor, self-hosted, no database required. (Web) (HN)
​ProseMirror + React + TypeScript example editor​
​deepnotes-editor - Workflowy like editor built with draft-js.
Links
​ycmd - Code-completion & comprehension server.
​Open source collaborative text editors (2019) (HN)
​Vixi - A vim like client for the xi backend.
​Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust (2019) (HN)
​Kite - AI assistant giving developers superpowers. (VS Code plugin)
​Diff Match and Patch libraries - Offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text.
​Debug Adapter Protocol - Defines a common protocol for debug adapters. (Code)
​Linenoise - Small self-contained alternative to readline and libedit.
​Xi-Editor Retrospective (2020) (HN) (Reddit)
​Three Architectures for a Responsive IDE (2020)​
​Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
​Tired of note-taking apps (2020) (HN)
​Inside a Collaborative Text Editor (2020)​
​I wrote the world's worst text editor (so you don't have to) (2020)​
​My thoughts about editors in 2020 (HN)
​From Vim to Ed (2020) (Lobsters)
​My Text Editor Journey: Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime Text (2017)​
​Which color scheme is better? (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
​What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor right now, and get away with it (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
​Kakoune, a punk-rock text editor (2020) (Lobsters)
​Auto Base16 Theme - Automatically generate a base16 color set for syntax highlighting based on the colors in an image.
​Monaco Languages - Colorization and configuration supports for multiple languages for the Monaco Editor.
​Why an IDE? (2020)​
​SyntaxEnvy - Procedurally generated syntax highlighting themes.
​Universal Ctags - Generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files for many popular programming languages.
​Build Your Own Text Editor (Code) (In Zig)
​The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla (2021) (HN)
​editorconfig-checker - Tool to verify that your files are in harmony with your .editorconfig. (Web)
​dprint - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust. (Code)
​dprint-node - Node API for the dprint TypeScript and JavaScript code formatter. Faster Prettier.
​Building a High Performance Text Editor (2021)​
​Editors, IDEs; O Gods, What If Microsoft Was Right All Along? (2021)​
​Chroma - General purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go.
​My 4 Favorite Cloud IDEs for 2021​
​Text Editing Hates You Too (2019) (HN)
​monaco-editor-auto-typings - Automatically load declaration files while typing in monaco editor instances.
​Kaolinite - Rust crate to assist in the creation of TUI text editors.
​bangle.dev - Collection of components for building powerful editing experiences for the web. (Code)
​Tylr - Interactive demonstration of tile-based editing. (Code) (Tweet) (HN)
​Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code​
​Yi - Haskell-Scriptable Editor.
​Plate - Plugin framework for building rich text editors with slate. (Web)
​Monaco language client - NPM module to connect Monaco editor with language servers.
​Code blocks, but better (2021)​
​Which editor/IDE does Bisqwit use? Answers & some history. (2019)​
​Thoughts on Structured Editing: Breaking Away from Syntax (2020)​
​Subtext - Text-based, block-oriented hypertext format.
​Vite Plugin Monaco Editor - Plugin to simplify loading the Monaco Editor with vite.
​prisma/text-editors - Exports a bunch of batteries-included code editors for Typescript, JSON, SQL & Prisma Schemas.
​prosemirror-dev-toolkit - Injectable developer tools for ProseMirror rich-text editors implemented in Svelte and TypeScript.
​IDEs and Macros (2021)​
​ProseMirror + CodeMirror 6​
​codemirror/autocomplete - Autocompletion for the CodeMirror code editor.
​What's the Future of IDEs? (2021) (HN)
​use-prosemirror - ProseMirror + React made easy.
​JetBrains Fleet - The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains. (HN)
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