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Howl

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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.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Linux
  • BSD
Howl alternatives  
Discontinued

The last version (0.6) is from April 2019.

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Minimalistic
  3.  Customizable
  4.  Keyboard focused

Features

  1.  Syntax Highlighting
  2.  Programmable
  3.  Keyboard Shortcuts

 Tags

  • general-purpose
  • html-editor

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Howl information

  • Developed by

    The Howl Developers

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Alternatives

    149 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Development, OS & Utilities, Office & Productivity

GitHub repository

  •  723 Stars
  •  66 Forks
  •  91 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 30, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Howl, and it has gotten 6 likes

Howl was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Apr 18, 2018 and this page was last updated Nov 28, 2022.

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last release is from 2019

What is Howl?

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.

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