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Encyclopedia > Comparison of text editors

This article provides a basic feature comparison for several text editors. Additional feature details are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual products' articles. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Notepad is the standard text editor for Microsoft Windows A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ...


The comparisons are made on the stable versions of software – not the upcoming versions or beta releases – and without the use of any add-ons, extensions or external programs (unless specified in footnotes).

Contents

Overview

List of text editors
Creator First public release Latest stable version Cost (US$) Software license Open source
Acme Rob Pike 1993 Plan 9 and Inferno Free LPL, (OSI approved) Yes
Alphatk Vince Darley 1999 8.3.3 $40 Proprietary, with BSD components No
Aquamacs David Reitter 2005 1.0 Free GPL Yes
BBEdit Rich Siegel April 1992 8.6.2 $125, $49 educational Proprietary No
Bluefish Bluefish Development Team 1999 1.0.7 Free GPL Yes
ConTEXT Eden Kirin 1999 0.98.5 Free Proprietary No
Crimson Editor Ingyu Kang ? 3.7 Free GPL Yes
Diakonos Pistos 2004 0.8.3 Free GPL Yes
E text editor Alexander Stigsen 2005 1.1.127 (beta) $34.95 Proprietary No
ed Ken Thompson 1970 unchanged from original Free / Yes
EditPad Lite JustGreatSoftware 1996 6.1.2 Free Freeware No
EditPad Pro JustGreatSoftware 1996 6.1.2 $49.95 Shareware No
EditPlus Sangil Kim 1998 2.31 $30 Shareware No
EmEditor Pro Emurasoft, Inc.  ? 6.00.3 $39.99 (1-user) Shareware No
gedit GNU Project 2000 2.18.0 Free GPL Yes
GNU Emacs Richard Stallman 1984 22.1 Free GPL Yes
HAPedit freeDaniLab 1999 3.1.11.111 Free Freeware No
JED John E. Davis 1999 (?) 0.99-18 Free GPL Yes
jEdit Slava Pestov 1998 (?) 4.3 Free GPL Yes
JOE Joseph Allen 1990 3.4 Free GPL Yes
Kate KDE Project December 2000 2.5.4 Free GPL Yes
KWrite KDE Project 2000 4.5 Free GPL Yes
MadEdit Alston Chen 2004 0.2.6 Free GPL Yes
Metapad Alexander Davidson 1999 3.51 Free Freeware No
mined Thomas Wolff 1992 2000.12 Free GPL Yes
Nano GNU Project 1999 2.0.6 Free GPL Yes
Creator First public release Latest stable version Cost (US$) Software license Open source
NEdit Mark Edel 1991 5.5 Free GPL Yes
Notepad Microsoft 1985 6.0 Bundled with Microsoft Windows Proprietary No
Notepad++ Donho Don Ho November 25, 2003 4.1.1 Free GPL Yes
Notepad2 Florian Balmer April 2004 2.0.15 Free BSD license Yes
Notetab Eric Fookes, Fookes Software 1995 4.95 Free, $10 Standard, $20 Pro Proprietary No
nvi Keith Bostic ? 1.79 Free BSD license Yes
Pico University of Washington ? 4.64 Free Proprietary No
Power Edit Glenn Alcott ? 2.2 ? Proprietary No
Programmer's Notepad Simon Steele 1998 2.0.6.1 Free BSD license Yes
PSPad Jan Fiala 2002 4.5.2 Freeware Proprietary No
Rainbow Text Editor Andrew Chen 2004 3.5 $19,$0 educational Shareware No
SciTE Neil Hodgson March 1999 1.73 Free GPL Yes
skEdit Sean Kelly, skti 2002 3.6 $24.95 for a Lifetime license Proprietary No
SlickEdit SlickEdit, Inc. 1988 11.0.2 $299 Proprietary No
Smultron Peter Borg 2004 3.1.0 Free BSD Yes
SubEthaEdit TheCodingMonkeys 2003 2.5.1 $35 for commercial use Proprietary No
TED Notepad Juraj Simlovic 2001 5.3.1 Free Freeware No
TextEdit Apple Computer ? 1.4 Bundled with Mac OS X Proprietary No
TextMate MacroMates 10 October 2004 1.5.5 €39 Proprietary, with MIT components No
TextPad Helios Software Solutions 1992 5.0 $32.40 (£16.50) Shareware No
TextWrangler Bare Bones Software ? 2.2.1 Free Proprietary No
The SemWare Editor Sammy Mitchell November 1985 4.4 $99 Proprietary No
UltraEdit IDM Computer Solutions 1994 13.00 $49.95 Proprietary No
Vim Bram Moolenaar 1991 7.1 Free GPL - compatible Yes
XEmacs Lucid Inc. 1991 21.4 Free GPL Yes
Zeus Xidicone P/L 1995 3.96 $49.95 Shareware No
Creator First public release Latest stable version Cost (US$) Software license Open source

ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Rob Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. ... Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used as a research vehicle. ... Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services. ... The Lucent Public License is an open-source license created by Lucent Technologies. ... The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... Ken Thompson Kenneth Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is a pioneer of computer science notable for his contributions to the development of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (often abbreviated as RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is a software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... John E. Davis may refer to: John E. Davis (North Dakota politician) (1913–1990), governor of North Dakota, 1957–1961 John E. Davis (Texas politician), member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1999 to present This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... Slava Pestov (b. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KDE (K Desktop Environment) (IPA: ) is a free software project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use desktop environment. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... KWrite 4. ... KDE (K Desktop Environment) (IPA: ) is a free software project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use desktop environment. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Florian Balmer is an independent software developer living in Switzerland. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... Member of the UCB Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, who created BSD. Worked at Berkeley Software Design, who produced BSD/OS (also known as BSDi), a commercial version of BSD. Now works at Sleepycat Software, who produce Berkeley DB. Author of nvi. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... The MIT License, also called the X License or the X11 License, originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a license for the use of certain types of computer software. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... Bare Bones Software is a Bedford, Massachusetts, USA software company developing software tools for the Apple Macintosh platform. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... UltraEdit is a text editor for Microsoft Windows created in 1994 by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... Bram Moolenaar is an active member of the open source software community. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Lucid Incorporated was a supercomputer then a software development company founded by Richard P. Gabriel in 1984, which went bankrupt in 1994. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

Operating system support

This section lists the operating systems that different editors can run on. Some editors run on additional operating systems that are not listed. An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...


Cross platform

Text editor support for various operating systems
Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix OpenVMS
Acme Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Partial  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
ed Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EditPad Lite Yes No Yes  No No No
EditPad Pro Yes No Yes  No No No
gedit No Yes  Yes Yes Yes No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
JOE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Kate No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KWrite No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
MadEdit Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
mined Partial  Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Nano Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
NEdit Yes Yes  Yes Yes Yes Yes
nvi No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Pico No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SciTE Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
SlickEdit Yes Yes  Yes No Yes No
Vim Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix OpenVMS
  • ^  Bluefish runs on Windows using Cygwin; native win32 port in progress.
  • ^  EditPad The most recent version (6.1.2) of EditPad Pro is not available for Linux. Therefore some of its listed features in the following sections may not be available to Linux users.
  • ^  gedit, NEdit and SlickEdit run in the X11 window environment, and therefore do not use the native Aqua look-and-feel when running on Mac OS X.
  • ^  mined runs on Windows using either cygwin (via an X terminal or a stand-alone rxvt) or in command prompt window (with the DOS version).

Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... OpenVMS[1] (Open Virtual Memory System or just VMS) is the name of a high-end computer server operating system that runs on the VAX[2] and Alpha[3] family of computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts (DIGITAL was then purchased by Compaq, and is now owned... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... OpenVMS[1] (Open Virtual Memory System or just VMS) is the name of a high-end computer server operating system that runs on the VAX[2] and Alpha[3] family of computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts (DIGITAL was then purchased by Compaq, and is now owned... Cygwin is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act somewhat like a Unix system. ... In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. ...

Java based text editors

Java based
jEdit
jeHEP

jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ...

Windows only text editors

Windows Only
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
E text editor
EditPlus
EmEditor
HAPedit
Metapad
Notepad
Notepad++
Notepad2
Notetab
Power Edit
Programmer's Notepad
PSPad
Rainbow Text Editor
TED Notepad
TextPad
The SemWare Editor 
UltraEdit
Zeus
  • ^  The SemWare Editor (TSE): Linux beta version in progress.

ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ...

Mac only text editors

Mac Only
Aquamacs
BBEdit
skEdit
Smultron
SubEthaEdit
TextEdit
TextMate
TextWrangler

Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ...

Document interface

Text editor support for common document interfaces
Single document interface Single document window splitting Multiple document interface
Overlappable windows Tabbed document interface Window splitting
Acme Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes No  Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Bluefish Yes No Yes Yes No
ConTEXT No No Yes Yes No
Crimson Editor No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos Yes No No No No
E text editor Yes No No Yes No
ed Yes No No No No
EditPad Lite Yes No No Yes No
EditPad Pro Yes No Yes Yes No
EditPlus No Yes Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Pro Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes No Yes Yes No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes No  Yes
HAPedit ? ? ? ? ?
JED No Yes No No Yes
jEdit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
JOE Yes Yes ? ? Yes
Kate No Yes Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes No No No No
MadEdit Yes No No Yes No
Metapad Yes No No No No
mined Yes No No  No No
Nano Yes No No No No
Single document interface Single document window splitting Multiple document interface
Overlappable windows Tabbed document interface Window splitting
NEdit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No No No
Notepad++ No No Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes No No No No
Notetab Yes ? ? Yes ?
nvi Yes Yes No No No
Pico Yes No No No No
Power Edit No Yes No Yes Yes
Programmer's Notepad ? ? ? ? ?
PSPad No Yes Yes Yes Yes
SciTE Yes No No Yes No
skEdit Yes Yes No Yes No
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes No Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes No Yes No
TED Notepad ? ? ? ? ?
TextEdit ? ? ? ? ?
TextMate Yes No No Yes No
TextPad No  Yes Yes Yes No
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes No No Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes  Yes  Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zeus No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Single document interface Single document window splitting Overlappable windows Tabbed document interface Window splitting
Multiple document interface
  • ^  Aquamacs Emacs and GNU Emacs can use a tabbed document interface in a non OS-native way, using the tabbar plug-in.
  • ^  mined supports Copy/Paste between multiple documents in separate windows, when these documents are in separate terminal windows
  • ^  TextPad comes very close to SDI when configured to "allow multiple instances to run" (under Configure/Preferences/General).
  • ^  Vim Provided GVim is used.
  • ^  Vim version 7 supports a tabbed document interface. Earlier versions can use a script shown here.

Inkscape uses an SDI In graphical user interfaces, a single document interface or SDI is a method of organizing graphical user interface applications into individual windows that the operating systems window manager handles separately. ... MDI implementation in the Windows version of Adobe Photoshop. ... In the area of graphical user interfaces, a tabbed document interface (TDI) is one that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window, using tabs to navigate between them. ... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Inkscape uses an SDI In graphical user interfaces, a single document interface or SDI is a method of organizing graphical user interface applications into individual windows that the operating systems window manager handles separately. ... MDI implementation in the Windows version of Adobe Photoshop. ... In the area of graphical user interfaces, a tabbed document interface (TDI) is one that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window, using tabs to navigate between them. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... Inkscape uses an SDI In graphical user interfaces, a single document interface or SDI is a method of organizing graphical user interface applications into individual windows that the operating systems window manager handles separately. ... In the area of graphical user interfaces, a tabbed document interface (TDI) is one that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window, using tabs to navigate between them. ... MDI implementation in the Windows version of Adobe Photoshop. ... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ...

Basic features

Text editor support for basic editing features
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion
Acme No Yes No No
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes ?
ConTEXT No Yes Partial  Yes
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos No Yes No No
E text editor No Yes No No
ed No Yes No No
EditPad Lite No No Yes Yes
EditPad Pro Yes Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Pro No Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes  No Yes No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes
HAPedit ? ? ? ?
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes  Yes Yes Yes
JOE No ? No No
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes
MadEdit No Yes Yes Yes
Metapad Yes  No Yes Yes
mined No Yes Yes  Yes 
Nano Yes Yes No Yes
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion
NEdit Yes  Yes No Yes
Notepad No No No No
Notepad++ Yes  Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 No Yes Yes Yes
Notetab Yes Yes Yes Yes
nvi No Yes No No
Pico Yes No No No
Power Edit Yes Yes ? Yes
Programmer's Notepad ? Yes Yes  Yes 
PSPad Yes Yes Yes Yes
Rainbow Text Editor No No Yes No
SciTE No Yes Yes Yes
skEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes
TED Notepad No No No Yes
TextEdit Yes No Yes Yes
TextMate Yes Yes Partial Yes
TextPad Yes Yes Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes No Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes  Yes Yes
Vim Yes  Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zeus Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion
  • ^  ConTEXT only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16.
  • ^  gedit supports spell checking via a plugin, which is distributed with gedit.
  • ^  jEdit supports spell checking via an external plugin.
  • ^  JOE supports spell checking via the ispell or aspell external plugins.
  • ^  JOE uses a non-standard regular expression syntax.
  • ^  Metapad spell checking requires the aspell plugin.
  • ^  mined can convert the encoding format when using the Copy & Paste feature between multiple documents (that have different encodings).
  • ^  mined supports new-line conversion via a command-line option. Different types of new-line format have different visual indications.
  • ^  NEdit supports spell checking via a plugin
  • ^  Notepad++ supports spell checking via the aspell external plugins.
  • ^  Programmer's Notepad 2.
  • ^  UltraEdit used a non-standard regular expression syntax in earlier versions, but now supports its proprietary format and PCREs.
  • ^  VEDIT supports spell checking via an external plugin.
  • ^  Vim version 7 supports spell checking natively. Earlier versions require a script shown here.

In computing terms, a spelling checker (also spell checker) is a software program designed to verify the spelling of words in a file, helping a user ensure his/her spelling is correct. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers... In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. ... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... In computing terms, a spelling checker (also spell checker) is a software program designed to verify the spelling of words in a file, helping a user ensure his/her spelling is correct. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers... In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... In computing terms, a spelling checker (also spell checker) is a software program designed to verify the spelling of words in a file, helping a user ensure his/her spelling is correct. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers... In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. ... In computing, UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks. ... Ispell is a spelling checker for UNIX that has been largely superseded by Aspell. ... GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is the standard spell_checking software for the GNU software system designed to replace Ispell. ... GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is the standard spell_checking software for the GNU software system designed to replace Ispell. ... Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) is a regular expression C library derived from Perls external interface. ...

Programming features

Text editor support for programming features (see source code editor)
Syntax highlighting Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
Acme No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes No No No
ConTEXT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
Diakonos Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No
E text editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
ed No No No No No No No No No
EditPad Lite No Yes Yes No Yes No No No No
EditPad Pro Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
EmEditor Pro Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
gedit Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
HAPedit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
JOE Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
MadEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Metapad No Yes No No Yes No No No No
mined Yes  No No Yes Yes No No No No
Nano Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No
Syntax highlighting Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
NEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Notepad No No No No No No No No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Notetab Yes Yes ? No ? Yes ? ? Yes
nvi No Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No No No
Pico No Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Programmer's Notepad Yes Yes No Yes  Yes  ? Yes  ? Yes 
PSPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Rainbow Text Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
SciTE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
skEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
TED Notepad No Yes No No Yes Yes No No No
TextEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextMate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial  Yes Yes No
TextPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  Partial  No Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zeus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Syntax highlighting Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
  • ^  gedit: Compiler integration: Functionality in plugins installed with gedit.
  • ^  mined: Syntax highlighting: HTML/XML, Javascript, JSP.
  • ^  Nedit: Auto complete: via plugin
  • ^  Notepad++: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
  • ^  Programmer's Notepad 2
  • ^  TextMate: Auto complete: Supported in some language bundles
  • ^  The Semware Editor: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
  • ^  The Semware Editor: Text folding: Compressed view possible.

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A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... HTML syntax highlighting Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that displays text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. ... For technical reasons, :) and some similar combinations starting with : redirect here. ... Autocomplete is a feature provided by many source code text editors, word processors, and web browsers. ... Code folding is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. ... In a text editor, text folding is a mechanism that allows regions of text to be hidden, often replaced by a summary line of some sort. ... This article is about the computing term. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... HTML syntax highlighting Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that displays text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. ... For technical reasons, :) and some similar combinations starting with : redirect here. ... Autocomplete is a feature provided by many source code text editors, word processors, and web browsers. ... Code folding is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. ... In a text editor, text folding is a mechanism that allows regions of text to be hidden, often replaced by a summary line of some sort. ... This article is about the computing term. ...

Extra features

Text editor support for other programming features
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro Collaborative editing Large file support Multi-line regex support
Acme Yes Yes Yes No ? ?
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes  No ? ?
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes  No ? ?
Bluefish No Yes ? ? ? Yes
ConTEXT No Yes Yes No ? No
Crimson Editor No Yes Yes No ? No
Diakonos No No Yes No ? ?
E text editor No No No Yes Yes Yes
ed No No No No ? ?
EditPad Lite No No No No ? ?
EditPad Pro Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
EditPlus ? Yes Yes No ? Yes
EmEditor Pro ? ? Yes No ? Yes
gedit Yes Yes Yes  No ? No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
HAPedit ? ? ? ? ? ?
JED Yes No Yes No ? ?
jEdit Yes No Yes No ? Yes
JOE ? ? ? ? ? ?
Kate Yes Yes No No ? No
KWrite No No No No ? No
MadEdit No No No No ? Yes
Metapad Yes Yes No No ? ?
mined ? ? ? ? ? ?
Nano ? ? ? No ? ?
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro Collaborative editing Large file support Multi-line regex support
NEdit Yes Yes Yes No No ?
Notepad Yes Yes No No No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes No ? No
Notepad2 No No No No ? No
Notetab ? ? ? ? ? ?
nvi Yes No No ? ? ?
Pico ? ? ? No ? ?
Programmer's Notepad No No Yes  No Yes  No
PSPad Yes Yes Yes No ? ?
SciTE ? ? ? ? ? No
skEdit Yes Yes No Yes  ? ?
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes
TED Notepad Yes Yes No No ? ?
TextEdit Yes Yes No No ? ?
TextMate Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes
TextPad No Yes Yes No No Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes No Yes ?
Vim Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
Zeus Yes Yes Yes  No ? ?
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro Collaborative editing Large file support Multi-line regex support
  • ^  Multi-line regex support Support for expressions spanning several lines (e.g. "nn(.+)nn")

In computing, a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users (command line interpreter). ... In computing, a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users (command line interpreter). ... A macro in computer science is an abstraction, that defines how a certain input pattern is replaced by an output pattern according to a defined set of rules. ... Quote from WP:NOT There is nothing wrong with adding a list of content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. Therefore please link to internal articles where they exist, and only to external articles where there are not... Large file support, often abberviated to LFS, is the term frequently applied to the support for files larger than 2 GB on 32-bit operating systems. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... In computing, a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users (command line interpreter). ... In computing, a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users (command line interpreter). ... A macro in computer science is an abstraction, that defines how a certain input pattern is replaced by an output pattern according to a defined set of rules. ... Quote from WP:NOT There is nothing wrong with adding a list of content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. Therefore please link to internal articles where they exist, and only to external articles where there are not... Large file support, often abberviated to LFS, is the term frequently applied to the support for files larger than 2 GB on 32-bit operating systems. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... In computing, a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users (command line interpreter). ... In computing, a shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users (command line interpreter). ... A macro in computer science is an abstraction, that defines how a certain input pattern is replaced by an output pattern according to a defined set of rules. ... Quote from WP:NOT There is nothing wrong with adding a list of content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. Therefore please link to internal articles where they exist, and only to external articles where there are not... Large file support, often abberviated to LFS, is the term frequently applied to the support for files larger than 2 GB on 32-bit operating systems. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... AppleScript is a scripting language devised by Apple, Inc. ... Tcl (originally from Tool Command Language, but nonetheless conventionally rendered as Tcl rather than TCL; and pronounced tickle) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. ... AppleScript is a scripting language devised by Apple, Inc. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... Screenshot of a sample Bash session, taken on Gentoo Linux. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... In computing, the Lua (pronounced LOO-ah, or in IPA) programming language is a lightweight, reflective, imperative and procedural language, designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. ... In computing, Small-C is both a subset of the C programming language, suitable for resource-limited microcomputers and embedded systems, and an implementation of that subset. ... VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsofts Windows Script Host. ... JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. ... Ruby is a reflective, dynamic, object-oriented programming language. ... Cygwin is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act somewhat like a Unix system. ... Ruby is a reflective, dynamic, object-oriented programming language. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ...

Protocol support

Text editor support for remote file editing over Internet Protocols
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
Acme Yes Yes Yes No
Alphatk Yes No No Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes 
BBEdit Yes No No No
Bluefish Yes Yes ? Yes
ConTEXT ? ? ? ?
Crimson Editor Yes No No No
Diakonos ? ? ? ?
E text editor No No No No
ed No No No No
EditPad Lite No No No No
EditPad Pro Yes No No No
EditPlus Yes No No No
EmEditor Pro No No No No
gedit Yes Yes Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes
HAPedit ? ? ? ?
JED No No No No
jEdit Yes  No Yes  Yes 
JOE ? ? ? ?
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes
MadEdit No No No No
Metapad No No No No
mined ? ? ? ?
Nano No No Yes No
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
NEdit No No No No
Notepad No No No No
Notepad++ No No No No
Notepad2 No No No No
Notetab ? ? ? ?
nvi No No No No
Pico No No No No
Programmer's Notepad No No No No
PSPad Yes No No No
SciTE ? ? ? ?
skEdit Yes No Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes No
Smultron ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit Yes No No No
TED Notepad ? ? ? ?
TextEdit ? ? ? ?
TextMate Yes  No No No
TextPad No No No No
TextWrangler ? ? ? ?
The SemWare Editor No No Yes  No
UltraEdit Yes No Yes No
Vim Yes  Yes  Yes  Yes 
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes ?
Zeus Yes Yes Yes No
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
  • ^  Aquamacs Supported via a Mac OS X mounted volume.
  • ^  jEdit Supported via plugins.
  • ^  The SemWare Editor (TSE) Console version only.
  • ^  Vim Supported via netrw plugin.

The Internet Protocol (IP) is a data-oriented protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. ... “FTP” redirects here. ... Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. ... Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel between two computers. ... WebDAV was an IETF working group. ... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... “FTP” redirects here. ... Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. ... Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel between two computers. ... WebDAV was an IETF working group. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... “FTP” redirects here. ... Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. ... Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel between two computers. ... WebDAV was an IETF working group. ... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... A plugin (plug-in, addin, add-in, addon or add-on) is a computer program that interacts with a main (or host) application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function on demand. ... A plugin (plug-in, addin, add-in, addon or add-on) is a computer program that interacts with a main (or host) application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function on demand. ...

Encoding support

Text editor support for some of the most common character encodings
ASCII UTF-8 UTF-16
Acme Yes Yes No
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes ?
ConTEXT Yes No Yes
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos ? ? ?
E text editor Yes Yes Yes
ed Yes Yes No
EditPad Lite Yes Yes Yes
EditPad Pro Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Pro Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes
HAPedit ? ? ?
JED Yes Yes No
jEdit Yes Yes Yes
JOE Yes No No
Kate Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes Yes Yes
MadEdit Yes Yes Yes
Metapad Yes Yes Yes
mined Yes Yes Yes
Nano Yes Yes No
ASCII UTF-8 UTF-16
NEdit Yes No No
Notepad Yes Yes Yes
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes Yes Yes
Notetab ? ? ?
nvi Yes Yes  No
Pico Yes No No
Programmer's Notepad Yes Yes Yes
PSPad Yes Yes Yes
Rainbow Text Editor Yes Yes Yes
SciTE Yes Yes Yes
skEdit Yes Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes Yes
TED Notepad Yes Yes Yes
TextEdit ? ? ?
TextMate Yes Yes Yes
TextPad Yes Partial  Partial 
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes No No
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes
Zeus Yes Yes Yes
ASCII UTF-8 UTF-16
  • ^  nvi Gentoo
  • ^  TextPad can load and save UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, but cannot use or even preserve characters outside of the system encoding. [1]

A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers... Image:ASCII fullsvg There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. ... In computing, UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks. ... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Image:ASCII fullsvg There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. ... In computing, UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... Image:ASCII fullsvg There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ... UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. ... In computing, UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks. ...

Newline support

Text editor support for newline character sequence support
DOS (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)
Acme No Yes No
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish ? ? ?
ConTEXT Yes Yes Yes
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos ? ? ?
E text editor Yes No No
ed No Yes No
EditPad Lite Yes Yes Yes
EditPad Pro Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Pro Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes
HAPedit ? ? ?
JED Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes Yes
JOE ? ? ?
Kate Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes Yes Yes
MadEdit Yes Yes Yes
Metapad Yes Yes ?
mined Yes Yes Yes
Nano Yes Yes Yes
DOS (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)
NEdit Yes Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes Yes Yes
Notetab ? ? ?
nvi ? Yes ?
Pico ? Yes ?
Programmer's Notepad Yes Yes Yes
PSPad Yes Yes Yes
SciTE Yes Yes Yes
skEdit Yes Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes Yes
TED Notepad Yes Yes Yes
TextEdit ? ? ?
TextMate Yes Yes Yes
TextPad Yes Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes
Zeus Yes Yes No
DOS (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)

In computing, a newline is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. ... Instructions on how to use the directory command. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... A screenshot of Acme Acme is a text editor and shell from the Plan 9 operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. ... Alphatk is a text editor originally inspired by the MacOS-only editor Alpha, but extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and MacOS X. Alphatk is most useful for programmers (C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab, and many more), those writing a lot of TeX... Aquamacs is a modified distribution of the Emacs text editor (from the GNU project, version 22). ... BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. ... Bluefish is an open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development. ... ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting system. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based (console-based, or text-based) text editor. ... e is a text editor for Microsoft Windows, currently in beta. ... ed was the original standard text editor on the Unix operating system. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPad is a powerful text editor that is available for Windows and Linux. ... EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit shareware text editor, source code editor, and HTML editor for Windows. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... The correct title of this article is gedit. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... HAPedit editor is a freeware win-32 Html Asp Php text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages. ... JED is text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... JOE is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use, including an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help always on the screen. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mined (pronounced min-ed) is a powerful text editor with a comprehensive yet concise and easy-to-use user interface supporting modern interaction paradigms, and fast, small-footprint behaviour. ... Nano is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Instructions on how to use the directory command. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a popular text editor for the X Window System. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NoteTab is a freeware/shareware text editor for Windows. ... nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. ... A screenshot of Pico. ... Programmers Notepad is a text editor aimed at users who work with code. ... PSPad is a freeware text editor and source editor for the Windows platform. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... skEdit (formerly called skHTML) is a text editor for Mac OS X aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly. ... SlickEdit is a cross-platform source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. ... Smultron is an open source Mac OS X text editor. ... SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ... TED Notepad is a freeware text editor for Microsoft Windows. ... A screenshot of Apples TextEdit. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... TextPad is a popular text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... TextWrangler is a popular text editor from Bare Bones Software, designed for Mac OS X. It originally cost $49, but since v2. ... The Semware Editor (TSEPRO) is a very flexible text editor with roots in the MSDOS and MS Windows environment. ... UltraEdit is a text editor created by IDM Computer Solutions. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... XEmacs is a fork of the GNU Emacs text editor. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ... Instructions on how to use the directory command. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...

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