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* [[Notepad2]]
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* [[Pe (text editor)|Pe]] – a text editor for BeOS
* [[Pe (text editor)|Pe]] – a text editor for BeOS
* Programmer's Extensive Text Editor (Peter) - a NotePad++ like editor written entirely in C#
* Programmer's Extensive Text Editor (Peter) - a NotePad++ like editor written entirely in C#<ref>http://peter.codeplex.com/</ref>
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* [[RText]]

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

Graphical and text user interface

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

System default

Free software

Graphical user interface

System default

Free software

Freeware

Personal license (free for individuals)

Proprietary

Text user interface

System default

  • E was the text editor in PC DOS 7 and PC DOS 2000.
  • EDIT was the text editor in DR DOS 6.0, Novell DOS 7, Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 and DR-DOS 7.02 and higher.[citation needed]
  • 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 (not by default on every one)
  • ee, which stands for easy editor, is part of the base system of FreeBSD, along with vi.[10]
  • edlin was the default editor on MS-DOS prior to version 5 and is also available on MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows NT.
  • 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.
  • 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 is the default for Unix systems and must be included in all POSIX compliant systems[11] – One of the earliest screen-based editors, it is based on ex.

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 – Text editor with user-friendly interface, mouse and menu control, and extensive Unicode and CJK support; for Unix/Linux and Windows/DOS.
  • Nano – A clone of Pico GPL licensed.
  • ne – a minimal, modern replacement for vi.
  • SETEDIT – a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs
  • vim is based on the vi editor and designed for use both from a command line interface and in a graphical user interface
  • Zile

Freeware

Proprietary

No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)

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.
  • TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor for DOS and PCBoard file format support.

ASCII font editors

  • FIGlet – For creating ASCII Art text.
  • TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts.

Collaborative

Main article: Collaborative real-time editor § Real-time collaborative text editing software

Historical

Visual and full-screen editors

  • Brief – A very popular programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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

Notes

  1. ^ "What is gedit?"
  2. ^ "Leafpad"
  3. ^ "More Editors"
  4. ^ Xfce#Mousepad
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ [2]
  7. ^ [3]
  8. ^ [4]
  9. ^ http://peter.codeplex.com/
  10. ^ [5]
  11. ^ "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7"

See also

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