List of text editors
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The following is a list of text editors. For a list of outliners, see that article's external links.
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Graphical and text user interface
The following editors can either be used with a graphical user interface or a text user interface.
| Name | Description | Free Software |
|---|---|---|
| Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE) | Default under OpenVMS | ? |
| Aquamacs Emacs | A distribution of GNU Emacs heavily modified to behave like a Mac program. | Yes |
| Cream | A configuration of Vim. | Yes |
| Elvis | A vi/ex clone with additional commands and features | Yes |
| GNU Emacs/XEmacs | two long-existing forks of the popular Emacs programmer's editor. Emacs and vi are the dominant text editors on Unix-like operating systems, and have inspired the editor wars. | Yes |
| Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE) | Programmer's Editor for OpenVMS implemented using TPU. | Yes |
| Textadept | A modular, cross-platform editor written in C and Lua, using Scintilla[1] | Yes |
| vile (vi like Emacs) | A vi work-alike which retains the vi command-set while adding new features: multiple windows and buffers, infinite undo, colorization, scriptable expansion capabilities, etc. | Yes |
| vim | vim is a clone based on the ideas of the vi editor and designed for use both from a command line interface and in a graphical user interface | Yes |
| Yi editor | Yes |
Graphical user interface
Text user interface
System default
| Command | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| E | is the text editor in PC DOS 7 and PC DOS 2000. | Proprietary |
| ed | is the default line editor on Unix since the birth of Unix. Either ed or a compatible editor is available on all systems labeled as Unix (not by default on every one) | Free software |
| ED | is the default editor on CP/M, MP/M, Concurrent CP/M, CP/M-86, MP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86. | Free software |
| EDIT | is the default on MS-DOS 5.0 and higher and is included with all 32-bit versions of Windows that do not rely on a separate copy of DOS. Up to including MS-DOS 6.22, it only supported files up to 64 KB. | Proprietary |
| EDIT | is the text editor in DR DOS 6.0, Novell DOS 7, OpenDOS 7.01, DR-DOS 7.02 and higher. Supports large files for as long as swap space is available. Version 7 and higher optionally supports a pseudo-graphics user interface named NewUI. | Proprietary |
| EDIX | is the text editor in Concurrent DOS, Concurrent DOS XM, Concurrent PC DOS, Concurrent DOS 386, FlexOS 286, FlexOS 386, 4680 OS, 4690 OS, S5-DOS/MT. | Proprietary |
| EDITOR | is the text editor in DR DOS 3.31 through DR DOS 5.0, and the predecessor of EDIT. | Proprietary |
| EDLIN | is a command-line based line editor introduced with 86-DOS, and the default on MS-DOS prior to version 5 and is also available on MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows NT. | Proprietary |
| ee | stands for Easy Editor, is part of the base system of FreeBSD, along with vi.[10] | Free software |
| nvi | (installed as vi by default in BSD operating systems and some Linux distributions) – A free replacement for the original vi which maintains compatibility while adding some new features. | Free software |
| vi | is the default for Unix systems and must be included in all POSIX compliant systems[11] – One of the earliest screen-based editors, it is based on ex. | Free software |
Others
| Command | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Diakonos | a customizable, usable console-based text editor. | Free software |
| Emacs | A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, Emacs Lisp. Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below. | Free software |
| JED | Free software | |
| JOE | A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico. | Free software |
| LE | Free software | |
| mcedit | Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems. | Free software |
| MinEd | Text editor with user-friendly interface, mouse and menu control, and extensive Unicode and CJK support; for Unix/Linux and Windows/DOS. | Free software |
| Nano | A clone of Pico GPL licensed. | Free software |
| ne | a minimal, modern replacement for vi. | Free software |
| SETEDIT | a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs | Free software |
| Suplemon | A Sublime Text -like multi cursor text editor written in Python. | Free software |
| Zile | Free software | |
| Pico | Freeware | |
| The SemWare Editor | (TSE for DOS) (formerly called QEdit) | Proprietary |
vi clones
| busybox vi | The smallest in code size of the vi clones,[citation needed] with a minimum of commands and features | Free software |
| Elvis | The first vi clone and the default vi in Minix. | Free software |
| nvi | A new implementation and currently the standard vi in BSD distributions. | Free software |
| STEVIE | STEVIE (ST Editor for VI Enthusiasts) for the Atari ST, the starting point for vim and xvi. | Free software |
| vile | derived from an early version of Microemacs in an attempt to bring the Emacs multi-window/multi-buffer editing paradigm to vi users. First published 1991 with infinite undo, UTF-8 compatibility, multi-window/multi-buffer operation, a macro expansion language, syntax highlighting, file read and write hooks, and more. | Free software |
| vim | an extended version of the vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code | Free software |
No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)
| Name | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Scintilla (editing component) | is used as the core of several text editors. | Free software |
| Text Processing Utility (TPU) | language and runtime package, developed by DEC, used to implement the Language-Sensitive Editor and Extensible Versatile Editor, Eve. | Proprietary |
ASCII and ANSI art
Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of ASCII and ANSI text art.
- ACiDDraw – Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
- PabloDraw – ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via TCP/IP network connections.
- TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor for DOS and PCBoard file format support.
ASCII font editors
- FIGlet – For creating ASCII art text.
- TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts.
Historical
Visual and full-screen editors
- Brief – A very popular programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2.
- Edit application – A programmer's editor for Classic Mac OS.
- EDIT – A menu-based editor introduced to supersede EDLIN in MS-DOS version 5.0 and up. Still available under Microsoft Windows, but seldom used.
- EDT – A character based editor used on DEC PDP-11s and VAXen.
- O26 – written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in the mid-1960s
- Red – A VAX/VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC.
- se – An early screen-based editor for Unix.
- SED – Cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and VMS.
- STET (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977.
- TeachText
- TECO – One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language. While usually described as a line editor, it included screen editing capabilities at least as early as 1965.
Line editors
- Colossal Typewriter – An early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1
- ed – (1) Unix's early line editor, (2) CP/M's line editor.
- EDLIN – A line editor delivered with MS-DOS.
- ex – An EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi.
- GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) is a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 series computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and then adopted by GEC Computers for OS4000.
- sed – A non-interactive programmable stream editor available in Unix.
- TECO – One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language.
- TEDIT – GEC 4000 series editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT
- QED
Notes
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ "What is gedit?"
- ↑ "Leafpad"
- ↑ [citation needed]
- ↑ Xfce#Leafpad
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7"
See also
Categories:
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