List of text editors
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The following is a list of text editors.
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Graphical and Text User Interface
The following editors can either be used with a Graphical user interface or a Text user interface.
System default
- Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE) (default under OpenVMS) — EVE is implemented using TPU.
- Vim (replaced vi as default under Linux) — A modern vi work-alike with more features, including a scripting interface for Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and Scheme.
Free software
- Cream — A configuration of Vim that is easy to learn and use.
- GNU Emacs
- Jasspa MicroEmacs
- Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE) — Programers Editor for OpenVMS implemented using TPU.
- XEmacs
Graphical user interface
System default
- Notepad (default under Microsoft Windows)
- SimpleText (default under Classic Mac OS)
- TextEdit (default under Mac OS X)
- xedit (default under VM/CMS)
Free software
- Acme — A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
- BDV Notepad Free enhanced Notepad replacement
- Beaver
- [Bix] — A Java-based plain text editor
- Bluefish
- [CUTE]
- [Cssed]
- [EvolvEd] - All in one text-editor and progamming IDE
- gedit
- [HTML-Kit]
- [GridinSoft Notepad] - text editor with built-in spell checker
- jEdit — free cross-platform programmer's editor written in Java. GNU GPL licenced.
- Kate — text editor for the KDE desktop
- [Katoob] — is a light weight, multi lingual, GTK+ 2 based editor
- Kile — User friendly TeX/LaTeX editor
- Leafpad
- LEd
- MadEdit — a cross-platform text and hex editor
- NEdit
- [Netpadd]
- Notepad++
- Notepad2
- PPC_edit - text editor for Pocket PC
- [RexEdit]
- Sam
- SciTE
- [TEA]
- TeXnicCenter
- The Hessling Editor
- [TINN] - Free Notepad replacement released under a GPL license.
- [UniRed]
- [WinVi]
- xedit
- Yudit
- [Yzis] — a vim inspired editor with frontends for KDE and ncurses
Freeware
- Arachnophilia
- BBEdit Lite
- Bred
- ConTEXT
- Crimson Editor
- EDXOR
- EditPad Lite
- EmEditor Free
- GridinSoft Notepad Lite
- MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004
- Metapad
- NoteTab Light
- Programmer's File Editor (PFE)
- PSPad editor
- roPEdit
- RPad32
- subpad
- Syn Text Editor (Windows)
- TED Notepad
- TeXShop — TeX/LaTeX editor and previewer
- TextWrangler
- Win32Pad
- WhizNote
Commercial
- [Professional Notepad]
- Alphatk
- BBEdit
- Marile Notepad
- Boxer
- CodeWright
- CRiSP
- e
- Editeur
- EditPad Pro
- EditPlus
- EmEditor
- Epsilon
- GhostClip
- GWD Text Editor
- MED
- Multi-Edit
- Notpad
- NoteTab
- PrivyPad
- skEdit (formerly called skHTML)
- SlickEdit
- TextMate
- TextPad and Wildedit
- The SemWare Editor (formerly called QEdit)
- Ulysses
- WebDesign
- WinEdt
- UltraEdit
- Zeus IDE
Text user interface
System default
- nvi (replaced vi as default under BSD) — A reimplementation of vi.
- vi (default under Unix – unless replaced by a vi-clone) — One of the earliest screen-based editors, available in Unix, and part of the POSIX standard. Vi is based on ex.
Others
- Diakonos — a customizable, usable console-based text editor.
- Emacs — A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, Emacs Lisp. Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below.
- Elvis
- JED
- JOE — A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico.
- mined — Powerful text editor with extensive Unicode and CJK support and modern user-interface paradigm.
- Nano — An open source clone of Pico.
- Pico
- se — An early screen-based editor for Unix, based on ed.
- SEDT — A multiplatform EDT work-alike
- SETEDIT — An open source, multi-platform clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs, with several improvements.
- vile — A vi work-alike which retains the vi command-set while adding aspects of the Emacs editing paradigm: multiple windows and buffers, infinite undo, colorization, scriptable expansion capabilities, etc.
- mcedit — Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.
No User Interface (Editor Library, Toolkit)
- Text Processing Utility (TPU) — Language and Runtime used to implement the Language-Sensitive Editor and Extensible Versatile Editor.
Collaborative
- Concurrence
- MoonEdit
- SubEthaEdit
- Gobby
ASCII art
- ACiDDraw — Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
- Boxer — Allows graphic/line drawing when using PC-8/OEM character set
- JavE
- PabloDraw
Historical
Visual and full-screen editors
- Edit application
- edit — A menu-based editor introduced to supersede edlin in MS-DOS version 5.0 and up. Still available under Microsoft Windows, but seldom used.
- EDT — A character based editor used on DEC PDP-11s and VAXen.
- le
- Red — A VAX/VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC.
- TeachText
Line editors
- Colossal Typewriter — An early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1
- ed — (1) Unix's early character-based editor, (2) CP/M's line editor.
- edlin — A character-based editor delivered with MS-DOS.
- ex — An EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi.
- sed — An non-interactive programmable character-based text editor available in Unix.
- TECO — One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language.
- QED
See also
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