List of text editors

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The following is a list of text editors.

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 (libre/open-source) 2.3 Freeware 2.4 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 art converters 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

• Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE) (default under OpenVMS) — EVE is implemented using TPU.
• 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.

[edit] Free software

• Cream — A configuration of Vim that is easy to learn and use.
• GNU Emacs
• Jasspa MicroEmacs
• Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE) — Programmer's Editor for OpenVMS implemented using TPU.
• XEmacs

[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)

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

• Acme — A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
• Beaver
• Bix — A Java-based plain text editor
• Bluefish
• CUTE
• Cssed
• gedit — a simple GNOME text editor. Fairly equivalent to KEdit.
• GLeDitor — small programmer's editor written in pascal.
• J — Java-based, GPL'ed, embedded Lisp, FTP...
• 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
• Kedit|Keditw Text editor from Mansfield Software, with command set and Rexx language macros similar to IBM Xedit etc.
• Kedit — KDE editor roughly similar in sophistication to Windows Notepad, but with a spellchecker.
• Kile — User friendly TeX/LaTeX editor
• kpad
• KWrite — a KDE editor more sophisticated than KEdit.
• Leafpad
• LEd
• MadEdit — a cross-platform text and hex editor
• NEdit
• Netpadd
• Notepad++
• Notepad2
• PPC edit - text editor for Pocket PC
• Programmer's Notepad
• RexEdit
• Sam
• SciTE
• Smultron
• StrongED — a text editor for RISC OS
• 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
• Zap — a text editor for RISC OS
• ZuluPad — a personal wiki-like notepad for MS Windows and Mac OS X

[edit] Freeware

• Arachnophilia
• BBEdit Lite
• Bred
• ConTEXT
• Crimson Editor
• Eddie - A text editor originally made for BeOS and later ported to Linux and Mac OS X.
• EDXOR
• EditPad Lite
• EmEditor Free
• Editor²
• EvolvEd - All in one text-editor and programming IDE
• GridinSoft Notepad Lite
• HAPedit
• HTML-Kit
• Intype
• JujuEdit — editor that handles file sizes up to 2GB
• MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004
• Metapad
• Notepad+
• NotGNU Emacs — lightweight emacs-style editor
• NoteTab Light
• Programmer's File Editor (PFE)
• PSPad editor
• roPEdit
• RPad32
• subpad
• Syn Text Editor (Windows)
• Taco HTML Edit — HTML and PHP editor for Mac OS X
• TED Notepad
• TeXShop — TeX/LaTeX editor and previewer
• TextWrangler
• TopGun — Text-editor written in MASM for Microsoft Windows
• Win32Pad
• WhizNote
• PDSText
• Virtorio Notepad

[edit] Commercial

• Alphatk
• BBEdit
• Boxer
• CodeWright
• CRiSP
• e Collaborative Text Editor for Windows
• Editeur
• EditPad Pro
• EditPlus
• EmEditor
• Epsilon
• GhostClip
• GoldED (text editor of Cubic IDE)
• GWD Text Editor
• Marile Notepad
• MED
• Multi-Edit
• Notpad
• NoteTab
• PrivyPad (text editor with encryption)
• Professional Notepad
• skEdit (formerly called skHTML)
• SlickEdit
• Source Insight (site)
• Tex-Edit Plus
• TextMate
• TextPad and Wildedit
• TopStyle
• The SemWare Editor (formerly called QEdit)
• Twistpad
• UltraEdit
• Ulysses
• 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.
• 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.
• EDIT was the default on MS-DOS since version 5 and is still available on all versions of Windows.
• 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 still available on Windows.

[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.
• 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.

[edit] No User Interface (Editor Library, Toolkit)

• Text Processing Utility (TPU) — Language and Runtime used to implement the Language-Sensitive Editor and Extensible Versatile Editor.

[edit] Collaborative

• Concurrence
• MoonEdit
• SubEthaEdit
• Gobby
• http://www.e-texteditor.com/ (Uses an edit-and-commit style of collaboration, rather than seeing all changes live as they happen)

[edit] ASCII art

• ACiDDraw — Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
• ASCII Art Studio 2.11 for Windows Shareware (30-day trial); Free-hand drawing
• ASCII/edit Shareware (30-day trial); Mac OS X;
• Boxer — Allows graphic/line drawing when using PC-8/OEM character set
• CIADraw DOS ASCII art editor by the scene group Creators of Intense Art
• Emacs - Emacs 21.3 and above have the 'Artist.el' extension module which gives the ability to draw ASCII Art using either mouse, keyboard or both.
• Email Effects ASCII art editor for both Mac and Windows.
• JavE
• PabloDraw It can be enabled with the command 'M-x artist-mode' and disabled with 'M-x artist-mode off'.
• TextDraw Similar to Microsoft Paint.
• The Draw 4.61 (PC/MS DOS) - 291KB Download Link
• TundraDraw ANSI a ASCII for Microsoft Windows.

[edit] ASCII art converters

• AA-lib Image conversion library.
• Alternate's ASCII Artist ASCII art converter Open-Source written in C++ .
• ASCII Artist A simple ASCII art generator.
• ASCii.art 0.4 Freeware; Image conversion.
• ASCII Generator Web-based; Generate ASCII art with many fonts.
• ASCII Generator (ascgen) Freeware;
• ASCII Generator dotNET (ascgen) Better open source version rewritten in C#.
• ASCII Signature Generator Figlet Server - Generatore Online di Ascii Art.
• Figlet text generator FIGlet text generator.
• IMG2ASCII GNU GPL; Transform JPG o PNG into ASCII Unicode online.
• Imagetrix Full-color ASCII art image conversion tool.
• JASCiiArt 0.1 Freeware;
• Magic Soft Inc. free ascii converter (beta, in development) Converts images (soon text and videos too) into color, greyscale, or true ASCII
• png2mirc Public domain; converts PNG images in mIRC colorful ASCII art.
• Text-Image.com
• ASCII Art Generator - Generate ASCII art from image and text

[edit] Historical

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 — A 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

[edit] See also

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