List of text editors
The following is a list of text editors.
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Graphical
System default
Free software
- Acme - A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
- Beaver
- BlueFish
- gedit
- GNU Emacs
- jEdit
- Kate
- Kile - User friendly TeX/LaTeX editor
- NEdit
- Netpadd [1]
- Notepad2
- RexEdit [2]
- Sam
- SciTE
- The Hessling Editor
- UniRed [3]
- WinVi [4]
- XEmacs
- Yudit
Freeware
- Arachnophilia [5]
- Bred [6]
- ConTEXT
- Crimson Editor
- EDXOR
- Metapad [7]
- NoteTab
- PSPad
- RPad32 [8]
- subpad [9]
- TextWrangler
- Win32Pad [10]
Commercial
- BBEdit
- Boxer
- CodeWright
- e [11]
- EditPad
- EditPlus
- GWD Text Editor [12]
- MED [13]
- SlickEdit [14]
- TextPad
- The SemWare Editor (formerly called QEdit) [15]
- WebDesign [16]
- UltraEdit
Text-based
- Cream - 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.
- Elvis
- JOE - A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar style to the interface, but can also can emulate Pico.
- 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.
- VILE
Collaborative
- Concurrence [17]
- MoonEdit
- SubEthaEdit
ASCII art
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
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.
- ex - An EXtended version of 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
