List of text editors
The following is a list of notable text editors.
Graphical and text user interface
The following editors can either be used with a graphical user interface or a text user interface.
| Name | Description | Free software |
|---|---|---|
| Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE) | Default under OpenVMS. | ? |
| Aquamacs Emacs | A distribution of GNU Emacs heavily modified to behave like a Mac program. | Yes |
| Cream | A configuration of Vim. | Yes |
| Elvis | A vi/ex clone with additional commands and features. | Yes |
| GNU Emacs/XEmacs | Two long-existing 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. | Yes |
| Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE) | Programmer's Editor for OpenVMS implemented using TPU. | Yes |
| Textadept | A modular, cross-platform editor written in C and Lua, using Scintilla.[1] | Yes |
| vile (vi like Emacs) | A vi work-alike which retains the vi command-set while adding new features: multiple windows and buffers, infinite undo, colorization, scriptable expansion capabilities, etc. | Yes |
| vim | A clone based on the ideas of the vi editor and designed for use both from a command line interface and in a graphical user interface. | Yes |
| Yi editor | A scriptable text editor written in the Haskell programming language. | Yes |
Graphical user interface
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Acme | A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike. | Free software |
| AkelPad | Еditor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast. Many plugins. | Free software |
| Alphatk | Proprietary | |
| Arachnophilia | Free software | |
| Atom | A modular, general-purpose editor built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript on top of Chromium and Node.js. | Free software |
| BBEdit | Proprietary | |
| BBEdit Lite | Freeware | |
| Bluefish | A web development editor. | Free software |
| Brackets | A modular, web-oriented editor built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript on top of the Chromium Embedded Framework. | Free software |
| CodeWright | Proprietary | |
| Crimson Editor | Freeware | |
| CudaText | Written in Object Pascal on Lazarus (IDE), thus cross platform native GUI. | Free software |
| CygnusEd (CED) | Proprietary | |
| E Text Editor | Default under IBM OS/2 versions 2-4. | Proprietary |
| Eddie | An editor originally made for BeOS and later ported to Linux and macOS. | Freeware |
| EditPlus | An editor with syntax highlighting and FTP. | Proprietary |
| EmEditor | Proprietary | |
| Epsilon | Proprietary | |
| Geany | A fast and lightweight editor / IDE, uses GTK+. | Free software |
| gedit | Default under GNOME.[2] | Free software |
| GoldED (text editor of Cubic IDE) | Proprietary | |
| GWD Text Editor | Proprietary | |
| HTML Kit | Freeware | |
| HxD for huge text files. | Freeware | |
| iA Writer | Proprietary | |
| jEdit | A free cross-platform programmer's editor written in Java, GPL licensed. | Free software |
| JOVE | Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs | Free software |
| JuffEd | A lightweight text editor written in Qt4. | Free software |
| Kate | A basic text editor for the KDE desktop. | Free software |
| Kedit | An editor with commands and Rexx macros similar to IBM XEDIT. | Proprietary |
| Kile | A user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor. | Free software |
| Komodo Edit | Free software | |
| KWrite | A default editor on KDE. | Free software |
| Lapis | An experimental text editor allowing multiple simultaneous edits of text in a multiple selection from a few examples provided by the user. | Free software |
| Leafpad | Default under LXDE.[3] and Xfce | Free software |
| LEd – LaTeX Editor | Freeware | |
| Leo | A text editor that features outlines with clones as its central tool of organization and navigation. | Free software |
| Light Table | A text editor and IDE with real-time, inline expression evaluation. Intended mainly for dynamic languages such as Clojure, Python and JavaScript, and for web development. | Free software |
| mcedit | A text editor provided with Midnight Commander. | Free software |
| Metapad | Windows Notepad replacement, GPL licensed. | Free software |
| MicroEMACS | Free software | |
| Mousepad | Previously the default under Xfce.[4] | Free software |
| NEdit – "Nirvana Editor" | Free software | |
| Notepad | Default under Microsoft Windows. | Proprietary |
| Multi-Edit | Proprietary | |
| Notepad2 | Free software | |
| Notepad++ | A tabbed text editor. | Free software |
| NoteTab | Proprietary | |
| NoteTab Light | Freeware | |
| Pe | A text editor for BeOS. | Free software |
| Peppermint | An editor with a CoffeeScript/JavaScript API. | Proprietary |
| pluma | The default text editor of the MATE desktop environment for Linux. | Free software |
| PolyEdit | Proprietary | |
| Programmer's File Editor (PFE) | Freeware | |
| PSPad | An editor for Microsoft Windows with various programming environments. | Freeware |
| Q10 | A full screen text editor (Windows). | Freeware |
| RJ TextEd | Freeware | |
| RText | Free software | |
| Sam | Free software | |
| SciTE | Free software | |
| SimpleText | Default under Classic Mac OS from version 7.5.[5] | Proprietary |
| SlickEdit | Proprietary | |
| Smultron | A macOS text editor. | Proprietary |
| Source Insight | Proprietary | |
| SubEthaEdit (formerly called Hydra) | Proprietary | |
| Sublime Text | Proprietary | |
| TeachText | Default under Classic Mac OS versions prior to 7.5.[6] | Proprietary |
| TED Notepad | Freeware | |
| Tex-Edit Plus | Proprietary | |
| TextPad and Wildedit | Proprietary | |
| TeXnicCenter | Free software | |
| TeXShop | TeX/LaTeX editor and previewer. | Free software |
| TextEdit | Default under macOS,[7] NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep. | Free software |
| TextMate | Free software | |
| TextWrangler | Freeware | |
| The Hessling Editor | Free software | |
| The SemWare Editor (TSE) (formerly called QEdit). | Proprietary | |
| TopStyle | Proprietary | |
| UltraEdit | Text and source code editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, FTP etc. Handles multi-gigabyte files. | Proprietary |
| Ulysses | Proprietary | |
| UniRed | Windows text editor supporting many encodings. | Free software |
| VEDIT | Proprietary | |
| Visual Studio Code | An extensible code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running and version control. | Free software |
| WinEdt | Proprietary | |
| X11 Xedit | Free software | |
| XEDIT | Default under VM/CMS. | Proprietary |
| Yudit | Free software | |
Text user interface
System default
| Command | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| E | is the text editor in PC DOS 6, PC DOS 7 and PC DOS 2000. | Proprietary |
| ed | The default line 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). | Free software |
| ED | The default editor on CP/M, MP/M, Concurrent CP/M, CP/M-86, MP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86. | Free software |
| EDIT | The default on MS-DOS 5.0 and higher and is included with all 32-bit versions of Windows that do not rely on a separate copy of DOS. Up to including MS-DOS 6.22, it only supported files up to 64 KB. | Proprietary |
| EDIT | The text editor in DR DOS 6.0, Novell DOS 7, OpenDOS 7.01, DR-DOS 7.02 and higher. Supports large files for as long as swap space is available. Version 7 and higher optionally supports a pseudo-graphics user interface named NewUI. | Proprietary |
| EDIX | The text editor in Concurrent DOS, Concurrent DOS XM, Concurrent PC DOS, Concurrent DOS 386, FlexOS 286, FlexOS 386, 4680 OS, 4690 OS, S5-DOS/MT. | Proprietary |
| EDITOR | The text editor in DR DOS 3.31 through DR DOS 5.0, and the predecessor of EDIT. | Proprietary |
| EDLIN | A command-line based line editor introduced with 86-DOS, and the default on MS-DOS prior to version 5 and is also available on MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows NT. | Proprietary |
| ee | Stands for Easy Editor, is part of the base system of FreeBSD, along with vi.[8] | Free software |
| 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. | Free software |
| vi | The default for Unix systems and must be included in all POSIX compliant systems[9] – One of the earliest screen-based editors, it is based on ex. | Free software |
Others
| Command | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Emacs | A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, Emacs Lisp. Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below. | Free software |
| JED | Multi-mode, multi-window editor with drop-down menus, folding, ctags support, undo, UTF-8, key-macros, autosave, etc. Multi-emulation; default is emacs. Programmable in S-Lang. | Free software |
| JOE | A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico. | Free software |
| LE | Free software | |
| mcedit | Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems. | Free software |
| mg | Small and light, uses GNU/Emacs keybindings. Installed by default on OpenBSD. | Free software |
| MinEd | Text editor with user-friendly interface, mouse and menu control, and extensive Unicode and CJK support; for Unix/Linux and Windows/DOS. | Free software |
| Nano | A clone of Pico GPL licensed. | Free software |
| ne | A minimal, modern replacement for vi. | Free software |
| Pico | Free software | |
| SETEDIT | A clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs. | Free software |
| The SemWare Editor | (TSE for DOS) (formerly called QEdit) | Proprietary |
| Zile | Free software |
vi clones
| busybox vi | A small vi clone with a minimum of commands and features. | Free software |
| Elvis | The first vi clone and the default vi in Minix. | Free software |
| nvi | A new implementation and currently the standard vi in BSD distributions. | Free software |
| STEVIE | STEVIE (ST Editor for VI Enthusiasts) for the Atari ST, the starting point for vim and xvi | Free software |
| vile | Derived from an early version of Microemacs in an attempt to bring the Emacs multi-window/multi-buffer editing paradigm to vi users. First published 1991 with infinite undo, UTF-8 compatibility, multi-window/multi-buffer operation, a macro expansion language, syntax highlighting, file read and write hooks, and more. | Free software |
| vim | An extended version of the vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code. | Free software |
No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Scintilla (editing component) | Used as the core of several text editors. | Free software |
| Text Processing Utility (TPU) | Language and runtime package, developed by DEC, used to implement the Language-Sensitive Editor and Extensible Versatile Editor, Eve. | Proprietary |
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)
- JavE – ASCII editor, portable to any platform running a Java GUI
- 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
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
- EDIT – a menu-based editor introduced to supersede EDLIN in MS-DOS version 5.0 and up and available in most Microsoft Windows
- 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:
- EDLIN – a line editor delivered with MS-DOS
- EDT (Univac) – a line editor for Unisys VS/9 and e Fujitsu BS2000 systems
- ex – an EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi
- fred – sed-like line editor used on the CDC 7600 at Los Alamos
- GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) – 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
See also
- Comparison of text editors
- Editor war
- List of HTML editors
- List of word processors
- Outliner, a specialized type of word processor
- Source code editor
Notes
- ↑ "Textadept". Retrieved 2014-08-14.
- ↑ "Apps/Gedit - GNOME Wiki!". projects.gnome.org. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ↑ "Leafpad" Archived 2008-10-14 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Xfce#Leafpad
- ↑ http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/0307163ASYS75UPG.pdf
- ↑ "System 2.0 (4.1/5.5) 800K Disk Contents (9/93)". support.apple.com. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ↑ "Mac Basics: TextEdit". apple.com. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ↑ "3.10. Text Editors". www.freebsd.org. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ↑ "vi". pubs.opengroup.org. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
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