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.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenBSD | editors/novelwriter | 26.2 behind since 2026-10-11 | no data | - | Thomas Frohwein <[email protected]> | 2026-09-20 |
| FreeBSD | editors/novelwriter | 26.2.2 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-10-11 |
| DragonFly | editors/novelwriter | 2.6.3 behind since 2026-07-07 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| HardenedBSD | editors/novelwriter | 26.2 behind since 2026-10-11 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | editors/novelwriter | 26.2 behind since 2026-10-11 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
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.