List of text editors

The following is a list of text editors.

Contents

1 Graphical 1.1 System default 1.2 Free software 1.3 Freeware 1.4 Commercial 2 Text-based 3 Collaborative 4 ASCII art 5 Historical 5.1 Visual editor 5.2 Line editor 6 See also

Graphical

System default

• Notepad
• SimpleText
• TextEdit

Free software

• Acme - A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
• Beaver
• BlueFish
• gedit
• jEdit
• Kate
• Kile - User friendly TeX/LaTeX editor
• NEdit
• Netpadd [1]
• Notepad2
• RexEdit [2]
• Sam
• SciTE
• The Hessling Editor THE
• UniRed [3]
• WinVi [4]
• Yudit

Freeware

• Arachnophilia [5]
• Bred [6]
• ConTEXT
• Crimson Editor
• EditPad lite [7]
• EDXOR
• JOE [8]
• Metapad [9]
• NoteTab
• PSPad [10]
• RPad32 [11]
• subpad [12]
• Win32Pad [13]

Commercial

• BBEdit
• Boxer
• EditPlus
• GWD Text Editor [14]
• MED [15]
• SlickEdit [16]
• TextPad
• The SemWare Editor [17]
• UltraEdit

Text-based

• Cream (for Vim) - A configuration of Vim that is easy to learn and use.
• Emacs - A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, Emacs Lisp. Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below.
• Nano - An open source clone of Pico.
• nvi - A reimplementation of vi.
• Pico
• vi - One of the earliest screen-based editors, available in UNIX, and part of the POSIX standard.
• vim - A modern VI work-alike with more features, including a scripting interface for Perl and Python.

Collaborative

• MoonEdit
• SubEthaEdit

ASCII art

• ACiDDraw - Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
• PabloDraw

Historical

Visual editor

• Edit application
• edit - A menu-based editor introduced to supersede edlin in MS-DOS version 5.0.
• le [18]
• Red - A VAX/VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC .
• TeachText
• TPU
• QED

Line editor

• ed - UNIX's early character-based editor.
• edlin - A character-based editor delivered with MS-DOS.
• edt - A character based editor used on DEC PDP-11s and VAXen.
• 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.

See also

• Comparison of text editors