Editors
Sometimes called text editors, these are programs that allow you to create and edit text files. This includes Emacs and Vi.
- cssed - CSS editor and validator
 - emacs - GNU Emacs text editor
 - emacs-auctex - Enhanced TeX modes for Emacs
 - emacs-bbdb - A contact management utility for use with Emacs
 - emacs-ess - Compiled elisp files to run Emacs Speaks Statistics under GNU Emacs
 - emacs-muse - Compiled Muse lisp files for Emacs
 - emacs-nxml-mode - Emacs package for editing XML
 - emacs-vm - Emacs VM mailreader
 - geany - A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK2
 - gobby - Free collaborative editor
 - jed - Fast, compact editor based on the S-Lang screen library
 - joe - An easy to use, modeless text editor
 - leafpad - GTK+ based simple text editor
 - nedit - A GUI text editor for systems with X
 - poedit - GUI editor for GNU gettext .po files
 - psgml - A GNU Emacs major mode for editing SGML documents.
 - scite - SCIntilla based GTK2 text editor
 - scribes - A sleek, simple, and powerful text editor for the GNOME desktop
 - scribes-templates - Templates ("Snippets") for the Scribes text editor
 - vim-X11 - The VIM version of the vi editor for the X Window System
 - vim-enhanced - A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements
 - xemacs - Different version of Emacs
 - xemacs-ess - Compiled elisp files to run Emacs Speaks Statistics under XEmacs
 - xemacs-muse - Compiled Muse lisp files for XEmacs
 - xemacs-packages-extra - Collection of XEmacs lisp packages
 - xmlcopyeditor - A fast, free, validating XML editor
 - zile - Zile Is Lossy Emacs