Free scribe software for linux

Scribes is a text editor for GNOME. It is simple and easy to use. Scribes allows you to focus entirely on your tasks. Scribes ensures monotonous operations, such as saving your files regularly, are handled automatically and properly.
With Scribes, your workflow is never interrupted, and your files are always safe. Scribes is Free Software licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Main features:
- Basic GNOME integration
- File loading and saving
- Clipboard support (Cut, Copy, Save)
- Preliminary online manual
- Preliminary printing support
- Search and replace text
- Unlimited undo and redo
- User customization
- Syntax highlighting for over 30 languages
- Move cursor to specific line
- Text wrapping
- Right margin control
- Current line highlighting
- Basic bracket matching
- Configurable fonts
- Drag and drop
- Basic automatic indentation
- Full keyboard navigation and shortcuts

ScryMUD project is a MUD with a Java client.
ScryMUD is a MUD written completely from scratch that has a full feature set including persistant belongings, a ree-based skill/spell system, game-navigated vehicles, complex scripting, player-owned stores and houses, and much more. The distribution also comes with Hegemon, a Java client that provides a nice UI for ScryMUDs Online Building.
Main features:
- Completely original world and code. We have 6000+ rooms, 400+ mobs and 400+ objects.
- Integrated Java Client (applet/application) which offers a nice interface to the game and to the Online Building tools.
- Player controlled shops (you get the goods, set the prices, and collect the dough.)
- Can Brew potions. This requires the brew skill, a cauldron, and the necessary ingredients.
- Can Scribe Scrolls. Requires a scroll, pen, and knowledge of the spell.
- Spells become less powerful when there are many scrolls/potions that can cast them in the game. This balances the above features.
- Skills and Spells are learned in a tree-like manner. You must learn the pre-requesites to at least 50% before you can move on to the skills/spells it enables. So, you can customize the character to your liking and are limited only by the number of practices you have.
- Game-navigated vehicles (though not widely used in the game yet.)
- Complex NPC scripting so that the builders can make quests and other interesting things.
- Mobs have some personality traits, which can influence their behavior in battle and afterwards. Some will track you down and kill you (and then return to their starting point. Others may heal you if you are badly hurt.
- Bulletin boards for in-game communication, as well as gossip, yell, and other channels.
- Banks to keep your cash safe for you.
- Configurable ANSI color.
- Some multi-lingual capability.
- Released under the GPL
Enhancements:
- This release includes the addition of weather, several new spells and socials, minor improvements to ranged combat, and assorted bugfixes.
- Daemonizing code in particular should be a bit safer now.

Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project. It was invented by Richard Stallman and Bob Chassell many years ago, loosely based on Brian Reids Scribe and other formatting languages of the time. Texinfo project is used by many non-GNU projects as well.

Texinfo uses a single source file to produce output in a number of formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf, xml, etc.). This means that instead of writing different documents for online information and another for a printed manual, you need write only one document. And when the work is revised, you need revise only that one document. The Texinfo system is well-integrated with GNU Emacs.