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 (free/libre/open-source) 2.3 Freeware 2.4 Personal license (free for individuals) 2.5 Commercial 3 Text user interface 3.1 System default 3.2 Others 4 No User Interface (Editor Library, Toolkit) 5 Collaborative 6 ASCII art 6.1 ASCII Font Editors 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

• Vim (installed as vi by default in some Linux distributions) — A modern vi work-alike with more features, including 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.
• 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.

[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 (Linux))
• Kwrite (default under KDE (Linux))

[edit] Free software (free/libre/open-source)

• Acme — A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
• AkelPad
• Beaver
• Bluefish
• 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.
• 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
• MadEdit — a cross-platform text and hex editor
• medit
• MicroEMACS
• NEdit — "Nirvana Editor"
• Notepad++ — a tabbed text editor
• Notepad2
• PPC edit — text editor for Pocket PC
• Programmer's Notepad
• Sam
• SciTE
• Smultron — a Mac OS X text 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
• X11 Xedit
• Yi editor
• Yudit

[edit] Freeware

• HiEditor
• 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
• EditPad Lite
• EmEditor Free
• Editor²
• GridinSoft Notepad Lite
• HAPedit
• Komodo Edit
• LEd — LaTeX Editor
• LopeEdit Lite
• MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004
• Mi — A Japanese text editor, with an English version
• Metapad
• NotesHolder Lite
• Notepad+
• NoteTab Light
• q10 — Full screen text editor (Windows)
• Programmer's File Editor (PFE)
• PSPad editor
• Rainbow Editor (free for students)
• roPEdit
• RPad32
• subpad
• Syn Text Editor (Windows)
• SuperEdi
• TED Notepad
• TeXShop — TeX/LaTeX editor and previewer
• TextWrangler
• TotalEdit
• Win32Pad
• WhizNote

[edit] Personal license (free for individuals)

• HTML Kit

[edit] Commercial

• Alphatk
• BBEdit
• Boxer
• CodeWright
• CopyWrite
• CRiSP
• 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
• Rainbow Editor
• skEdit (formerly called skHTML)
• SlickEdit
• Source Insight
• SubEthaEdit (formerly called Hydra)
• 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 IDE

[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] 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.
• LE
• Nano — An open source clone of Pico.
• Pico
• SETEDIT — a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs
• 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.
• ne - a minimal, modern replacement for vi.

[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 Delphi and Kylix

[edit] Collaborative

Main article: Collaborative editor

[edit] ASCII art

Editors and viewers 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).
• JavE
• PabloDraw — ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via TCP/IP network connections.
• 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.
• TheDraw — ANSI/ASCII text editor with build in editor and manage of ASCII fonts

[edit] Historical

[edit] Visual and full-screen editors

• aee — "advanced easy editor" for Unix. Still available in most package managers, but seldom used.
• 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, derivatives known as LPEX.
• 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) was a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 series computers
• 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