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Howl

General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable Created by The Howl Developers

Free Open Source
Linux
BSD

Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

Links to official Howl sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

Customizable Keyboard centric Lightweight Minimalistic Programmable Add a feature

Categories

Development OS & Utilities

Tags

code-editor general-purpose html-editor keyboard-shortcuts text-editor

Howl was added by POX in Apr 2018 and the latest update was made in May 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Sep 2019. It's possible to update the information on Howl or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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