Bespin became ACE apparently... and dropped the canvas approach. Very interesting.

"Set of plugins and improvements to make Gedit a powerfull programmer text editor"

"Q10 is a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind."

"Beaver starts up fast and doesn't use a lot of memory. Beaver's only dependency is GTK+2, so no need to install other libraries eating your disk space. These things make Beaver very suitable for old computers and use in small Linux distributions."

I question how minimal this actually is if I have to install the GTK framework on OS X or WIndows... but on Linux this looks like a nice alternative to Gedit.

"This extension enables a more intuitive WYSIWYG editor when editing pages on a MediaWiki-based site. It uses a special version of the FCKeditor WYSIWYG editor that outputs wiki text rather than the usual HTML that caused problems for MediaWiki integrations in the past."

In-browser IDE written with SproutCore. One of the project maintainers prompted a lengthy discussion on #whatwg concerning bits like contentEditable and painting text to <canvas>.

"Evergreen (formerly "Edit") is a cross-platform GPL development environment that tries to be lightweight and language-agnostic yet functional."

"Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms."

"CodePress is web-based source code editor with syntax highlighting written in JavaScript that colors text in real time while it's being typed in the browser."

strange text editor for the mac. not saying bad... just strange.

Funny and conveniently useful

Lightweight, minimalistic GNOME/GTK text editor