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."

"SexpCode is a specialised mark-up language designed to replace BBCode and, to a lesser extent, user-generated HTML in general. It is not as yet intended as a general-purpose mark-up language, or to replace HTML for general web design."

"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.

"Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written for Ruby. It is inspired by Apache Lucene Java project."

"The Term Extraction Web Service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content." I couldn't find the terms of service for this resource though...

"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.

Lightweight, minimalistic GNOME/GTK text editor

Sadly this is an InputManager and I really hate loading these things.

"Pyparsing provides a framework for creating recursive-descent parsers, taking care of the overhead functions of scanning the input string, handling expression mismatches, selecting the longest of matching alternatives, invoking callback functions..."