List of text editors

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The following is a list of text editors. For a list of outliners, see that article's external links.

Contents 1 Graphical and text user interface 1.1 System default 1.2 Free software 2 Graphical user interface 2.1 System default 2.2 Free software 2.3 Freeware 2.4 Personal license (free for individuals) 2.5 Proprietary 3 Text user interface 3.1 System default 3.2 Free software 3.3 Proprietary 4 No user interface (Editor library, Toolkit) 5 ASCII and ANSI art 5.1 ASCII font editors 6 Collaborative 7 Historical 7.1 Visual and full-screen editors 7.2 Line editors 8 See also

[edit] Graphical and text user interface

The following editors can either be used with a Graphical user interface or a Text user interface.

[edit] System default

• Vi is part of almost every Unix system from AIX to Mac OS X or any modern BSD. Some Linux distributions replace vi by Vim which includes a scripting interface for Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and Scheme.
• Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE) (default under OpenVMS) — EVE is implemented using TPU.

[edit] Free software

• Aquamacs Emacs — A distribution of GNU Emacs heavily modified to behave like a Mac program.
• Cream — A configuration of Vim that is easy to learn and use.
• Elvis
• GNU Emacs/XEmacs — two forks of the popular Emacs programmer's editor. Emacs and vi are the dominant text editors on Unix-like operating systems, and have inspired the editor wars.
• Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE) — Programmer's Editor for OpenVMS implemented using TPU.
• 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.
• Yi editor

[edit] Graphical user interface

[edit] System default

• Notepad (default under Microsoft Windows)
• SimpleText (default under Classic Mac OS)
• TextEdit (default under Mac OS X)
• XEDIT (default under VM/CMS)
• Edit (default under RISC OS)
• ed (no relation to unix-ed, default under AmigaOS)
• Gedit (default under GNOME)
• Kwrite (default under KDE)
• Mousepad (default under Xfce)

[edit] Free software

• Acme — A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
• AkelPad
• Beaver
• Bluefish
• Caditor - Portable text editor with line numbering and syntax highlighting
• CodingEditor - text editor written in C#
• Crimson Editor and its successor Emerald Editor
• Geany — fast and lightweight editor / IDE. Uses GTK+.
• gedit — a simple GNOME text editor. Fairly equivalent to KEdit.
• J - Text editor written in Java, part of the ArmedBear Common Lisp (ABCL) project.
• jEdit — free cross-platform programmer's editor written in Java. GNU GPL licenced.
• JOVE — Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
• JuffEd — lightweight text editor written on Qt4
• Kate — text editor for the KDE desktop
• Kedit — KDE editor roughly similar in sophistication to Windows Notepad, but with a spellchecker.
• Kile — User friendly TeX/LaTeX editor
• KWrite — a KDE editor more sophisticated than KEdit.
• Leafpad
• Leo — a text editor that features outlines with clones as its central tool of organization and navigation.
• MadEdit — a cross-platform text and hex editor
• mcedit - text editor provided with Midnight Commander
• medit
• Metapad
• MicroEMACS
• NEdit — "Nirvana Editor"
• Notepad++ — a tabbed text editor
• Notepad2
• nText
• PPC edit — text editor for Pocket PC
• Programmer's Notepad
• RText
• Sam
• SciTE
• Scribes
• Smultron — a Mac OS X text editor
• SourceEdit — a Windows cross-platform (ftp) editor
• TEA - multifunctional text editor
• TeXnicCenter
• TextForge - a GPL Cocoa Mac OS X editor
• TextRoom - a GPL fullscreen text editor for Qt.
• The Hessling Editor
• UniRed
• X11 Xedit
• Yudit

[edit] Freeware

• AcroEdit
• Arachnophilia
• BBEdit Lite
• BDV Notepad
• Bred
• ConTEXT
• Eddie — A text editor originally made for BeOS and later ported to Linux and Mac OS X.
• EDXOR
• EditEx
• EditPad Lite
• Editor²
• GridinSoft Notepad Lite
• HAPedit
• HiEditor
• Komodo Edit
• LEd — LaTeX Editor
• LopeEdit Lite
• MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004
• Mi — A Japanese text editor, with an English version
• NotesHolder Lite
• Notepad+
• Notepad SX
• NoteTab Light
• PowerPad - a lightweight text editor
• Programmer's File Editor (PFE)
• PSPad editor
• q10 — Full screen text editor (Windows)
• Rainbow Editor (free for students)
• RJ TextEd - Unicode source and text editor
• roPEdit
• RPad32
• subpad
• Syn Text Editor (Windows)
• SuperEdi
• TED Notepad
• TeXShop — TeX/LaTeX editor and previewer
• Textaizer - ASCII art and text mosaic creator
• TextWrangler
• TheGun (Grown Up Notepad) - A text editor for very large files (> 10 MB)
• TotalEdit
• Win32Pad
• WhizNote

[edit] Personal license (free for individuals)

• HTML Kit

[edit] Proprietary

• Alphatk
• AptEdit
• BBEdit
• Boxer
• CygnusEd (CED)
• CodeWright
• CopyWrite
• CRiSP Editor
• Crystal REVS for C/C++
• E Collaborative Text Editor
• Editeur
• EditPad Pro
• EditPlus
• EmEditor
• Epsilon
• GhostClip
• GoldED (text editor of Cubic IDE)
• GWD Text Editor
• Kedit text editor with commands and Rexx macros similar to IBM Xedit
• LopeEdit Pro
• Marile Notepad
• MED
• Multi-Edit
• Notepad
• NoteTab
• PolyEdit
• Programmer Studio (Windows tool. Features: editing unix files, Project mode)
• Rainbow Editor
• skEdit (formerly called skHTML)
• SlickEdit
• Source Insight
• SubEthaEdit (formerly called Hydra)
• Sublime Text
• TaterEdit (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X)
• Tex-Edit Plus
• TextMate
• TextPad and Wildedit
• TopStyle
• TotalEdit Pro
• Twistpad
• The SemWare Editor (TSE) (formerly called QEdit)
• UltraEdit
• Ulysses
• UNA
• VEDIT
• WebDesign
• WinEdt
• Zeus for Windows

[edit] Text user interface

[edit] System default

• nvi (installed as vi by default in BSD operating systems and some Linux distributions) — A free replacement for the original vi which maintains compatibility while adding some new features.
• 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.
• ee (Easy Edit) — a simple text editor for FreeBSD.
• ed has been the default editor on Unix since the birth of Unix. Either ed or a compatible editor is available on all systems labeled as Unix.
• MS-DOS Editor is the default on MS-DOS since version 5 and is included with all 32-bit versions of Windows that do not rely on a separate copy of DOS.
• E was the text editor in PC-DOS 7, PC-DOS 2000, and OS/2
• edlin was the default editor on MS-DOS prior to version 5 and is also available on MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows NT.

[edit] Free software

• 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.
• JED
• JOE — A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico.
• LE
• mcedit — Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.
• Mined — Powerful text editor with extensive Unicode and CJK support, with mouse control and menus.
• Nano — An open source clone of Pico.
• ne - a minimal, modern replacement for vi.
• Pico
• SETEDIT — a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs

[edit] Proprietary

• PE32 - 32 bit console editor compatible with the DOS Personal Editor versions.

[edit] No user interface (Editor library, Toolkit)

• Scintilla (Editing Component) is used as the core of several text editors.
• Text Processing Utility (TPU) — Language and Runtime used to implement the Language-Sensitive Editor and Extensible Versatile Editor.
• SynEdit is open source code editing component compatible with both Borland Delphi and Kylix

[edit] ASCII and ANSI art

Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of ASCII and ANSI text art.

• ACiDDraw — Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
• PabloDraw — ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via TCP/IP network connections.
• JavE — an advanced cross-platform ASCII art editor and drawing program.
• Tetradraw — an ANSI art editor for *nix operating systems with mult-user editing support.
• TheDraw — ANSI/ASCII text editor for MS DOS and PCBoard file format support
• TundraDraw — a cross-platform ANSI and ASCII editor
• AsciiO — cross-platform ASCII diagram creation

[edit] ASCII font editors

• FIGlet — For creating ASCII Art text.
• JavE — An advanced cross-platform ASCII art and drawing program that also includes a FIGlet editor and tools for creating FIGlet fonts.
• TheDraw — ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts

[edit] Collaborative

[edit] Historical

[edit] Visual and full-screen editors

• aee — "advanced easy editor" for Unix. Still available in most package managers, but seldom used.
• Brief — A very popular programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2.
• Edit.app — The default text editor for NEXTSTEP systems.
• Edit application — A programmer's editor for Classic Mac OS.
• MS-DOS Editor — 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.
• LEXX — editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, possibly the first to use live parsing and colour syntax highlighting (runs on VM/CMS); derivatives known as LPEX (run on Windows, Linux, Java JVM, OS/2, AIX, etc.)
• NED (text editor) — The Rand fullscreen text editor, also known as re. A white-space editor, allowing arbitrary cursor movement past end-of-line or the last character of the file. Small amount of integration with the MH mail system.
• O26 — written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in the mid-1960s
• Red — A VAX/VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC.
• se — An early screen-based editor for Unix.
• SED — Cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and VMS.
• SEDT — A multiplatform EDT work-alike
• Source Entry Utility or SEU — A full screen editor that ran on the IBM System/38 and still runs on the IBM AS/400 as a legacy. (Currently being phased out in favor of the WebSphere Development Studio Client editor that runs on the Eclipse platform.)
• STET (the 'STructured Editing Tool') — may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977.
• TeachText
• TECO — One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language. While usually described as a line editor, it included screen editing capabilities at least as early as 1965.

[edit] Line editors

• Colossal Typewriter — An early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1
• ed — (1) Unix's early line editor, (2) CP/M's line editor.
• edlin — A line editor delivered with MS-DOS.
• ex — An EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi.
• GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) is a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 series computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, and then adopted by GEC Computers for OS4000.
• sed — A non-interactive programmable stream editor available in Unix.
• TECO — One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language.
• TEDIT — GEC 4000 series editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT
• QED

[edit] See also

• Comparison of text editors
• List of word processors
• Editor war