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Fresh is a modern, zero-configuration terminal text editor with IDE-level features and high performance, designed for ease of use and speed.
The author shares personal experiences with Emacs, emphasizing its playful and customizable nature, including ASCII art features and its integration into their daily computing workflow.
A veteran editor with 20 years of experience praises Astra, an editing tool, as superior to their own editing abilities.
This article details the features and setup of Emacs's new 'newcomers-presets' theme introduced in Emacs 31, aimed at improving the experience for new users with preset configurations.
The author describes building a custom text editor, experimenting with canvas, contenteditable, and textarea methods, and discusses challenges like performance and accessibility in web development.
e is a small, customizable Emacs-like text editor written in Chez Scheme, featuring hot-reloading, Scheme integration, and minimal dependencies for a console environment.
An unofficial guide to setting up and using the experimental markdown-ts-mode in Emacs 31, covering its features, installation, and usage tips.
Emacs 31.1 is released with small quality-of-life improvements, including the deprecation of the old unexec/pdumper system and new features like a user Lisp directory and enhanced minibuffer completions.
Emacs 31.1, the latest version of the extensible text editor, has been released and is available for download from GNU mirrors.
Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn't do anything, first added in 2000 as a humorous documentation entry. An unofficial plugin inspired by it now displays an image when the same key is pressed 42 times.
eh is a minimalist vi-like editor written in C, featuring UTF-8 support, regex search/replace, shell filters, and multi-level undo/redo. An earlier version won a prize in the 2024 IOCCC.
Emacs 31.1 is set to be released on August 24, with source code available on GitHub and build instructions provided for users.
Kakoune is a versatile text and code editor that uses multiple selections for efficient editing, offering features like syntax highlighting, customization, and collaborative editing via client/server architecture.
A blog post about repurposing an old ThinkPad as a dedicated writing machine running Debian and Emacs, inspired by Veronica Explains' writerdeck concept, with tips on configuration and file syncing via Git.
Ghost Cut is a new mechanism for cut and paste that makes the operation atomic, undoable in one step, and preserves clipboard contents. It works by fading the selected text instead of immediately removing it, allowing users to cancel or paste without clipboard pollution.
Tiptap AI Toolkit empowers AI to directly edit documents in real time, enabling seamless integration of AI into rich text editing workflows.
Cameron Damera demonstrated Fred, a text editor written entirely in C, at Handmade Network Expo 2026. Its core features include an embedded TCC compiler, a live plugin system, dynamic Tree-sitter language support, an undo tree, and session recovery. All code is hand-written without AI assistance.
Interview with Drew DeVault about his AI-free fork of Vim called Vim Classic, discussing practical, philosophical, and ethical reasons for rejecting generative AI in software development.
Wordgard 0.1 is released, a new open-source JavaScript rich-text editor library by Marijn Haverbeke, inspired by ProseMirror and CodeMirror.
A technical paper detailing the internal architecture of GNU Emacs, explaining its core components and design.