The following is a list of text editors. For a list of outliners, see that article's external links.
Graphical and text user interface
The following editors can either be used with a Graphical user interface or a Text user interface.
System default
Free software
Graphical user interface
System default
Free software
Freeware
Personal license (free for individuals)
Proprietary
Text user interface
System default
- E was the text editor in PC-DOS 7 and PC-DOS 2000.
- EDIT was the text editor in DR DOS 6.0, Novell DOS 7, Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 and DR-DOS 7.02 and higher.[citation needed]
- ed has been the default editor on Unix since the birth of Unix. Either ed or a compatible editor is available on all systems labeled as Unix (not by default on every one)
- ee, which stands for easy editor, is part of the base system of FreeBSD, along with vi.[9]
- edlin was the default editor on MS-DOS prior to version 5 and is also available on MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows NT.
- MS-DOS Editor is the default on MS-DOS since version 5 and is included with all 32-bit versions of Windows that do not rely on a separate copy of DOS.
- nvi (installed as vi by default in BSD operating systems and some Linux distributions) – A free replacement for the original vi which maintains compatibility while adding some new features.
- vi is the default for Unix systems and must be included in all POSIX compliant systems[10] – One of the earliest screen-based editors, it is based on ex.
Free software
- Diakonos – a customizable, usable console-based text editor.
- Emacs – A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, Emacs Lisp. Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below.
- JED
- JOE – A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico.
- LE
- mcedit – Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.
- MinEd – Text editor with user-friendly interface, mouse and menu control, and extensive Unicode and CJK support; for Unix/Linux and Windows/DOS.
- Nano – An open source clone of Pico.
- ne – a minimal, modern replacement for vi.
- SETEDIT – a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs
- vim is based on the vi editor and designed for use both from a command line interface and in a graphical user interface
- Zile
Freeware
Proprietary
No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)
ASCII and ANSI art
Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of ASCII and ANSI text art.
ASCII font editors
- FIGlet – For creating ASCII Art text.
- TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts.
Collaborative
Historical
Visual and full-screen editors
- Brief – A very popular programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2.
- Edit application – A programmer's editor for Classic Mac OS.
- MS-DOS Editor – A menu-based editor introduced to supersede edlin in MS-DOS version 5.0 and up. Still available under Microsoft Windows, but seldom used.
- EDT – A character based editor used on DEC PDP-11s and VAXen.
- O26 – written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in the mid-1960s
- Red – A VAX/VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC.
- se – An early screen-based editor for Unix.
- SED – Cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and VMS.
- STET (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977.
- TeachText
- TECO – One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language. While usually described as a line editor, it included screen editing capabilities at least as early as 1965.
Line editors
- Colossal Typewriter – An early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1
- ed – (1) Unix's early line editor, (2) CP/M's line editor.
- edlin – A line editor delivered with MS-DOS.
- ex – An EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi.
- GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) is a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 series computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, and then adopted by GEC Computers for OS4000.
- sed – A non-interactive programmable stream editor available in Unix.
- TECO – One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language.
- TEDIT – GEC 4000 series editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT
- QED
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