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GNU nanoGNU Moe
Free

Free and open source under the GPL.

 Free

Free software under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Linux, Command line
  • Shortcuts shown on screen, so there is nothing to memorise
  • Installed or one package away on practically every Unix system
  • Global search and replace across buffers
  • Includes a directory browser and file name completion
  • No plugins, projects or language intelligence
  • Not designed for editing large codebases
  • Console interface
  • Designed for ASCII and ISO-8859 text encodings
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0 License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked October 8, 2026

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