BSD Ports

editors/novelwriter 26.2 OpenBSD

markdown-like text editor for planning and writing novels

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Thomas Frohwein <[email protected]>
Last update
Commit
79b6fd3e43
Categories
editors, lang/python

Description

novelWriter is a plain text editor designed for writing novels assembled from many smaller text documents. It uses a minimal formatting syntax inspired by Markdown, and adds a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing. It's designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text and notes, using human readable text files as storage for robustness.

The project storage is suitable for version control software, and also well suited for file synchronisation tools. All text is saved as plain text files with a meta data header, the core project structure is stored in a single project XML file, and other meta data is primarily saved as JSON files.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 26.2.2, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
OpenBSDeditors/novelwriter26.2 behind since 2026-10-11no data-Thomas Frohwein <[email protected]>2026-09-20
FreeBSDeditors/novelwriter26.2.2 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-11
DragonFlyeditors/novelwriter2.6.3 behind since 2026-07-07none known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDeditors/novelwriter26.2 behind since 2026-10-11no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDeditors/novelwriter26.2 behind since 2026-10-11no data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg_add novelwriter

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/editors/novelwriter && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Build dependencies 5
Run dependencies 3

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 2

DateCommitCreditsLog message
79b6fd3e43 thfr update NovelWriter to latest release 26.2
2bc6d0ab3f thfr update novelwriter to latest release 26.1.2