What are the best open-source programmable text editors?

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Howl

Howl is a general-purpose text editor written and extendable in MoonScript or Lua.

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The editor source code can be changed easily

Written mostly in Lua (or Moonscript) and includes LuaJIT.

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The editor source code can be changed easily

Written (mostly) in Lua and includes LuaJIT.

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Easy to extend

Plugins (bundles) can be written in Lua or MoonScript.

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Open source

Howl is an open source project and is actively developed on GitHub(howl-editor/howl). It has a MIT license.

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Keyboard driven

You don't need the mouse to use Howl. Everything can be accomplished with commands and shortcuts.

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Fast startup

It's extremely lightweight, making it start up pretty quickly.

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Easy to use

Howl is very intuitive and easy to use.

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