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The following is a list of text editors.
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Graphical and Text User Interface
The following editors can either be used with a Graphical user interface or a Text user interface.
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System default
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Free software
Cream — A configuration of Vim that is easy to learn and use.
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System default
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Free software (libre/open-source)
Bix — A Java-based plain text editor
GLeDitor — small programmer's editor written in pascal.
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
MadEdit — a cross-platform text and hex editor
TINN — Free Notepad replacement released under a GPL license.
Yzis — a vim inspired editor with frontends for KDE and ncurses
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Freeware
EvolvEd - All in one text-editor and progamming IDE
JujuEdit — editor that handles file sizes up to 2GB
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Commercial
Professional Notepad 2.9
e Collaborative Text Editor for Windows
skEdit (formerly called skHTML)
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System default
nvi (replaced vi as default under BSD) — A reimplementation of vi.
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.
edlin was the default editor on MS-DOS prior to version 5 and is also still available on Windows.
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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.
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.
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.
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No User Interface (Editor Library, Toolkit)
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Collaborative
http://www.e-texteditor.com/ (Uses an edit-and-commit style of collaboration, rather than seeing all changes live as they happen)
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ASCII art
ACiDDraw — Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
Boxer — Allows graphic/line drawing when using PC-8/OEM character set
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. It can be enabled with the command 'M-x artist-mode' and disabled with 'M-x artist-mode off'.
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Visual and full-screen editors
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Line editors
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.
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See also
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