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TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by peter_d_sherman » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC

TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor
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Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by peter_d_sherman » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

For example of what this site offers, I found the following web page when looking for a .RTF (Rich Text Format) text editor (in my case, specifically for Linux, and ideally open source):

https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RichTextEditorFamily

(Now that I think about it -- in the future, wouldn't it would be great to have a website/database that would contain all software, not just text editors, but the data would be so granular so as to allow searches on such attributes as open source (or not!), LOC, platform, language, program type, subtype, etc., etc. AlternativeTo has some of this, GitHub has some of this, Wikipedia lists have some of this, and of course, this website has some of this -- but for Text Editors only... anyway, just thinking aloud! :-) )

Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by teddyh » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 7:36 PM UTC

peter_d_sherman wrote: post #2

For example of what this site offers, I found the following web page when looking for a .RTF (Rich Text Format) text editor (in my case, specifically for Linux, and ideally open source): https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RichTextEditorFamily (Now that I think about it -- in the future, wouldn't it would be great to have a website/database that would contain all software, not just text editors, but the data woul…

Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by theendisney2 » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 10:07 PM UTC

peter_d_sherman wrote: post #2

For example of what this site offers, I found the following web page when looking for a .RTF (Rich Text Format) text editor (in my case, specifically for Linux, and ideally open source): https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RichTextEditorFamily (Now that I think about it -- in the future, wouldn't it would be great to have a website/database that would contain all software, not just text editors, but the data woul…

Imagine something like dht to pump database rows around. If you have an application you put the row at the top before passing it to the next node.

You type a search query then wait for the river of spam to float by.

Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by BaculumMeumEst » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 10:12 PM UTC

Did Carmack really use Emacs? Hadn’t read that anywhere else.

Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by 3836293648 » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 10:55 PM UTC

BaculumMeumEst wrote: post #5

Did Carmack really use Emacs? Hadn’t read that anywhere else.

He's said so in a Lex Fridman interview

Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by wild_egg » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 11:14 PM UTC

peter_d_sherman wrote: post #2

For example of what this site offers, I found the following web page when looking for a .RTF (Rich Text Format) text editor (in my case, specifically for Linux, and ideally open source): https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RichTextEditorFamily (Now that I think about it -- in the future, wouldn't it would be great to have a website/database that would contain all software, not just text editors, but the data woul…

Great to hear someone other than myself is interested in an all software site.

I started working on a site for that in December after getting fed up with the number of times I've looked for a program to do X, not finding it, starting to build it myself, only to stumble across a random HN comment two months later that links to a program that solves the problem better than I ever could.

I'd really like a resource that lets me find this stuff better, so I'm making it.

Of course, if the usual pattern repeats again — sometime in March I'll come across such a site that has already done this and been running for 5 years and we never knew

Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by eternityforest » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 11:14 PM UTC

I want to know what Wim Taymans, Lennart Pottering, and FreeCAD's RealThunder use! There doesn't seem to be many of the big name devs, outside of core low level stuff, talking about editors, unlike guitarists and such who love talking about gear.

Re: TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

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Post by stonogo » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 12:32 AM UTC

wild_egg wrote: post #7

peter_d_sherman wrote: post #2

For example of what this site offers, I found the following web page when looking for a .RTF (Rich Text Format) text editor (in my case, specifically for Linux, and ideally open source): https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RichTextEditorFamily (Now that I think about it -- in the future, wouldn't it would be great to have a website/database that would contain all software, not just text editors, but the data woul…

Great to hear someone other than myself is interested in an all software site. I started working on a site for that in December after getting fed up with the number of times I've looked for a program to do X, not finding it, starting to build it myself, only to stumble across a random HN comment two months later that links to a program that solves the problem better than I ever could. I'd really like a resource that…

This used to be freshmeat.net, which rebranded to freecode.org and immediately died. It was an heirarchical directory of software, classified by category, user interface, UI toolkit, license, implementation language, operating system support... I often wonder what happened to that database. It would be a great thing to revive. "I want an ncurses text editor that runs on linux and has a permissive license" or "I want a QT-based email client that runs on Windows and is GPL" or "What Mac OS X software is using GTK these days", all extremely quick and easy to look up.

edit: http://freshcode.club/ is basically the freecode version of the site, revived. Unfortunately, one of the changes late in freshmeat's existence was a removal of the formal categorization heirarchy and a transition to arbitrary 'tagging', which led to almost-identical tags, confusingly conflicting tags, and generally made life slightly harder.