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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

  • Acme — A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
  • AkelPad - Еditor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast. Many plugins.
  • Bluefish — Web development editor
  • Caditor - Portable text editor with line numbering and syntax highlighting
  • Crimson 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, GPL licensed
  • JOVE — Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
  • JuffEd — lightweight text editor written in Qt4
  • Kate — basic 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
  • Kod — Mac OS-X only, TextMate-like
  • KWrite — default editor on KDE, more sophisticated than KEdit
  • Leafpad
  • Leo — a text editor that features outlines with clones as its central tool of organization and navigation
  • mcedit - text editor provided with Midnight Commander
  • Metapad - Windows Notepad replacement, GPL licensed
  • MicroEMACS
  • NEdit — 'Nirvana Editor'
  • Notepad++ — a tabbed text editor
  • Notepad2
  • Pe — a text editor for BeOS
  • Programmer's Notepad
  • PSPad — editor for Microsoft Windows with various programming environments
  • RText
  • Sam
  • SciTE
  • Scribes, a GNOME text editor
  • TeXnicCenter
  • The Hessling Editor
  • UniRed — Windows text editor supporting many encodings
  • X11 Xedit
  • Yudit

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 and Novell DOS 7 (later Caldera OpenDOS 7).[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.
  • ee, which stands for easy editor, is the default editor on FreeBSD.[7]
  • 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 (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.

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.
    • jupp updated, security- and bug-fixed fork of JOE
  • 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 — An open source clone of Pico.
  • ne - a minimal, modern replacement for vi.
  • SETEDIT — a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs

Freeware

No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)

ASCII and ANSI art

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

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]

See also

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