Graphical and text user interface

System default

• Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE)
  Extensible Versatile Editor
  EVE is a flexible text editor that is part of the VMS operating system. EVE is implemented by using the Text Processing Utility .The Emacs editor features a good EVE emulation ....
  
   (default under OpenVMS
  OpenVMS
  OpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...
  
  ) – EVE is implemented using TPU
  Text Processing Utility
  DEC Text Processing Utility was a language developed by Digital Equipment Corporation for developing text editors. In 1986, DEC developed a new version of EDT written in DECTPU. DECTPU is distributed with OpenVMS...
  
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• vi
  Vi
  vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.The original code for vi...
  
   is part of almost every Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
   system from AIX to Mac OS X
  Mac OS X
  Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
  
   or any modern BSD
  Berkeley Software Distribution
  Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995...
  
  . Some Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
   distributions replace vi by Vim
  Vim (text editor)
  Vim is a text editor written by Bram Moolenaar and first released publicly in 1991. Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems, Vim is designed for use both from a command line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface...
  
   which includes a scripting interface for Perl
  Perl
  Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
  
  , Python
  Python (programming language)
  Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
  
  , Ruby, Tcl
  Tcl
  Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own...
  
   and Scheme.

Free software

• Aquamacs Emacs
  Aquamacs
  Aquamacs is an Emacs text editor for Mac OS X. It is based on GNU Emacs from the GNU project, currently tracking the version 23 branch, although its user interface is designed to conform with Mac OS X UI standards....
  
   – A distribution of GNU Emacs heavily modified to behave like a Mac program.
• Cream
  Cream (Vim)
  Cream is a configuration of the Vim text editor that consists of a set of scripts which can be run within Vim to make it behave more like an editor now common to most personal computers which conform to the Common User Access standards of interface and operability.Through pulldown menus, keyboard...
  
   – A configuration of Vim
  Vim (text editor)
  Vim is a text editor written by Bram Moolenaar and first released publicly in 1991. Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems, Vim is designed for use both from a command line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface...
  
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• Elvis
  Elvis (text editor)
  Elvis is a powerful vi/ex clone, i.e. it resembles the Unix text editor "vi" very much but adds quite a few commands and features. Elvis is written by Steve Kirkendall and is distributed under the Clarified Artistic License which is used by Perl....
  
  
• GNU Emacs
  Emacs
  Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
  
  /XEmacs
  XEmacs
  XEmacs is a graphical- and console-based text editor which runs on almost any Unix-like operating system as well as Microsoft Windows. XEmacs is a fork, based on a version of GNU Emacs from the late 1980s...
  
   – two forks of the popular Emacs
  Emacs
  Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
  
   programmer's editor. Emacs and vi
  Vi
  vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.The original code for vi...
  
   are the dominant text editors on Unix-like
  Unix-like
  A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
  
   operating system
  Operating system
  An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
  
  s, and have inspired the editor war
  Editor war
  Editor war is the common name for the rivalry between users of the vi and Emacs text editors. The rivalry has become a lasting part of hacker culture and the free software community....
  
  s.
• Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE)
  Language-Sensitive Editor
  LSE is a Language-Sensitive Editor for OpenVMS Operating system. LSE is implemented by using the Text Processing Utility .-External links:*...
  
   – Programmer's Editor for OpenVMS
  OpenVMS
  OpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...
  
   implemented using TPU
  Text Processing Utility
  DEC Text Processing Utility was a language developed by Digital Equipment Corporation for developing text editors. In 1986, DEC developed a new version of EDT written in DECTPU. DECTPU is distributed with OpenVMS...
  
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• 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.
• Yi editor

System default

• E (E.EXE) (default under IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
   OS/2
  OS/2
  OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal...
  
   versions 2-4)
• gedit
  Gedit
  gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed as a general purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use...
  
   (default under GNOME
  GNOME
  GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...
  
  )
• Leafpad (default under LXDE
  LXDE
  LXDE is a free and open source desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms, such as Linux or BSD. The goal of the project is to provide a desktop environment that is fast and energy efficient...
  
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• Kate/KWrite (default under KDE
  KDE
  KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
  
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• Mousepad (default under Xfce
  Xfce
  Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD – though recent compatibility issues have arisen with regard to BSD Unix platforms...
  
  )
• Notepad (default under Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
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• SimpleText
  SimpleText
  SimpleText is the native text editor for the Classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad application...
  
   (default under Classic Mac OS
  Mac OS
  Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...
  
  )
• TextEdit
  TextEdit
  TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-compatible operating systems such as Linux...
  
   (default under Mac OS X
  Mac OS X
  Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
  
  )
• XEDIT
  XEDIT
  XEDIT is a visual editor for VM/CMS using block mode IBM 3270 terminals.It is much more line-oriented than modern PC and Unix editors. For example, it supports automatic line numbers, and many of the commands operate on blocks of lines. One of the features is a command line which allows the user to...
  
   (default under VM/CMS)

Free software

• Acme – A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
• AkelPad
  AkelPad
  AkelPad is a small, expandable text editor written for the Windows family of operating systems. It can also be run under Wine, an application which allows users to run Windows applications on Unix-like systems such as Linux...
  
   – Еditor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast. Many plugins.
• Arachnophilia
  Arachnophilia
  Arachnophilia is a source code editor written in Java by Paul Lutus. It is the successor to another HTML editor, WebThing. The program is licensed as Careware software...
  
  
• Bluefish
  Bluefish (text editor)
  Bluefish is a web design editor focused towards the development of dynamic websites. Bluefish supports development in HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Google Go, Vala, Ada, D, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python, Ruby and shell. Bluefish is available on most platforms,...
  
   – Web development editor
• ConTEXT
  ConTEXT
  ConTEXT is a text editor for Microsoft Windows that can open and edit very large files, while requiring only modest amounts of RAM and hard drive space to run....
  
  
• Crimson Editor
  Crimson Editor
  Crimson Editor is an open-source text editor. It is typically used as a source code editor, and HTML editor, for Microsoft Windows. The author was Ingyu Kang.-History:...
  
  
• Geany
  Geany
  Geany is a lightweight cross-platform GTK+ text editor based on Scintilla and including basic Integrated Development Environment features. It is designed to have short load times, with limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries. It is available for a wide range of operating...
  
   – fast and lightweight editor / IDE
  Integrated development environment
  An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
  
  , uses GTK+
  GTK+
  GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...
  
  
• gedit
  Gedit
  gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed as a general purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use...
  
   – a simple GNOME
  GNOME
  GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...
  
   text editor, fairly equivalent to KEdit
• J
  J (text editor)
  J is a text editor for programmers, available under the GNU General Public License.-Compatibility:J is written in Java and runs on Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS, and Windows. It is part of the ArmedBear Common Lisp project on SourceForge....
  
   – Text editor written in Java
  Java (programming language)
  Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
  
  , part of the ArmedBear Common Lisp (ABCL) project
• jEdit
  JEdit
  jEdit is a text editor for programmers, available under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. It is written in Java and runs on any operating system with Java support, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.-Development:...
  
   – free cross-platform programmer's editor written in Java
  Java (programming language)
  Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
  
  , GPL
  GNU General Public License
  The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
  
   licensed
• JOVE
  JOVE
  JOVE is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp...
  
   – Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
• JuffEd
  JuffEd
  JuffEd is a free software, UTF-8 compatible text editor for programmers and advanced users. It is designed to be a simple and lightweight cross-platform text editor. The current version is 0.8.1, released on March 18, 2010...
  
   – lightweight text editor written in Qt4
• Kate
  Kate (text editor)
  In computing, Kate is a text editor by KDE. The name Kate is an acronym for KDE Advanced Text Editor.-History:Kate has been part of KDE Software Compilation since release 2.2 in 2001. Because of the KParts technology, it is possible to embed Kate as an editing component in other KDE applications...
  
   – basic text editor for the KDE
  KDE
  KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
  
   desktop
• Kile
  Kile
  Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX source code. It runs on Unix-like systems including Mac OS X and Linux with the Qt libraries installed.- Name :...
  
   – User friendly TeX
  TeX
  TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as ....
  
  /LaTeX
  LaTeX
  LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
  
   editor
• Kod
  Kod
  Kod is a text editor for Mac OS X. Written by Rasmus Andersson, a Facebook engineer, Kod is designed to be fitted specifically to Mac OS X's architecture....
  
   – Mac OS-X only, TextMate-like
• KWrite
  KWrite
  KWrite is a lightweight text editor for the KDE Software Compilation.- Features :* Export to HTML, PDF, PostScript* Block selection mode * Code folding* Bookmarks* Syntax highlighting* Encoding selection...
  
   – default editor on KDE
  KDE
  KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
  
  
• Leo
  Leo (text editor)
  Leo is a text editorthat features outlines with clones as its central tool oforganization, navigation, customization and scripting.-Language:Leo is written in Python and use the Qt Gui toolkit...
  
   – a text editor that features outlines with clones as its central tool of organization and navigation
• mcedit – text editor provided with Midnight Commander
  Midnight Commander
  GNU Midnight Commander is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander originally created by Miguel de Icaza.Midnight Commander is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design:...
  
  
• Metapad
  Metapad
  Metapad is an open source text editor for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/XP, developed by Alexander Davidson since 1999. The aim of Metapad is to provide a near drop-in replacement of Notepad in Windows. Metapad was distributed as freeware for the first ten years of its existence...
  
   – Windows Notepad replacement, GPL
  GNU General Public License
  The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
  
   licensed
• MicroEMACS
  MicroEMACS
  MicroEMACS is a small, portable Emacs-like text editor originally written by Dave Conroy in 1985, and further developed and maintained by Daniel M. Lawrence...
  
  
• NEdit
  NEdit
  NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a text editor and source code editor for the X Window System. It has an interface similar to text editors on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, rather than to older UNIX editors like Emacs...
  
   – "Nirvana Editor"
• Notepad++
  Notepad++
  Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for Windows. One advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in Windows text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files.Notepad++ is distributed as free software...
  
   – a tabbed text editor
• Notepad2
  Notepad2
  Notepad2 is an open-source text editor for Microsoft Windows, released under a BSD software license. It is written by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla editor component, and it was first publicly released in April 2004...
  
  
• Pe
  Pe (text editor)
  Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for the Be Operating System . It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages...
  
   – a text editor for BeOS
• Programmer's Notepad
  Programmer's Notepad
  Programmer's Notepad is an open-source text editor targeted at users who work with source code. It was released in 1998 by Echo Software . PN1's successor, Programmer's Notepad 2 , was released in 2002 and is now based on Scintilla...
  
  
• RText
  RText
  RText is a text editor for programmers, available under the GNU General Public License.-Features:Some of RText's features include:* Syntax highlighting for over 20 languages* Regular expression search and replace* Find in files and Replace in files...
  
  
• Sam
• SciTE
  SciTE
  SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. It is licensed under a minimal version of the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer...
  
  
• TeXnicCenter
  TeXnicCenter
  TeXnicCenter is a free open source IDE for the LaTeX typesetting language. It uses the MiKTeX or TeX Live distributions.. It allows the user to type documents in LaTeX and to compile them in PDF, DVI or PS. A menu gives access to precoded elements and environments...
  
  
• The Hessling Editor
  The Hessling Editor
  The Hessling Editor is one of the older open source text editor projects...
  
  
• UniRed
  UniRed
  UniRed is a Unicode text editor, capable of processing many character encodings, designed for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP. UniRed is developed by Yuri Finkel. UniRed is recommended for use by the editorial team of Monato magazine ....
  
   – Windows text editor supporting many encodings
• X11 Xedit
  X11 Xedit
  xedit is a text editor for the X Window System. It uses the Athena widget toolkit.Originally written during the days of the MIT X Consortium by Chris D. Peterson, it was relatively untouched until the late 1990s...
  
  
• Yudit
  Yudit
  Yudit is a Unicode text editor for the X Window System. It was first released on 1997-11-08. It can do TrueType font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on external engines. Its conversion utilities can convert text between various...
  
  

Freeware

• BBEdit Lite
  BBEdit Lite
  BBEdit Lite is a freeware text editor by Bare Bones Software, created as a low-cost, stripped-down or "lightweight" version of their flagship product BBEdit. BBEdit Lite had many of the same features as BBEdit such as regular expressions, a plug-in architecture and the same text editing engine...
  
  
• Eddie
  Eddie (text editor)
  Eddie is a text editor which was first released in 1997 for BeOS, and later ported to Linux and Mac OS X. It was written by Pavel Císler, formerly a senior developer at Be, who later worked for Eazel and currently works for Apple and continues to develop Eddie as his pet project, now on Mac OS X...
  
   – A text editor originally made for BeOS
  BeOS
  BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing...
  
   and later ported to Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
   and Mac OS X
  Mac OS X
  Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
  
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• editText - a complete text editor by ezapio software. Includes spell check
• GetDiz
  GetDiz
  GetDiz is a popular, free text editor, written by Outertech.Besides standard Text Editor features, GetDiz can display ASCII art correctly. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses pieces of printable text defined by the ASCII standard character set alongside with proprietary extended...
  
   – a free Notepad alternative for Windows
• GX Text
  GX Text
  GX Text is a text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is very basic and updated monthly. It is written in Liberty BASIC....
  
  
• Komodo Edit
• LEd
  LEd
  LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....
  
   – LaTeX
  LaTeX
  LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
  
   Editor
• Notepad+
  Notepad+
  Notepad+ is a text editor for Windows operating systems and is intended as a replacement for the Notepad editor installed by default on Windows. It has more formatting features but, like Notepad, works only with plain text. It can open text files of any size, and a single instance of the program...
  
  
• NoteTab
  NoteTab
  NoteTab is a freeware/commercial text editor for Windows. It was developed by Eric Fookes of Fookes Software, Switzerland. The program's name refers to the fact that it was one of the earliest text-editors capable of editing several open documents on different tabs...
  
   Light
• Programmer's File Editor
  Programmer's File Editor
  Programmer's File Editor is a freeware text editor targeted particularly to the needs of software programmers. It was written by Alan Phillips of Lancaster University in the north of England....
  
   (PFE)
• PSPad
  PSPad
  PSPad editor is a freeware text editor and source editor intended for use by programmers. First released in 2001, this software is produced by the single Czech developer Jan Fiala for the Windows platform....
  
   – editor for Microsoft Windows with various programming environments
• RJ TextEd
  RJ TextEd
  RJ TextEd is a freeware Unicode text and source code editor for Windows, that can also be used as a simple web development tool.The editor uses a variety of techniques for syntax highlighting in the source. It can use auto completion and hints to assist in editing source code. Previews of ...
  
  
• Q10
  Q10 (text editor)
  Q10 is a freeware text editor created by Baara Estudio. It is very basic, but has a few features that make it attractive to writers.- Features :* Full screen* Live text statistics easily visible* Customizable look* Alarm with word count for time...
  
   – Full screen text editor (Windows)
• TED Notepad
  TED Notepad
  TED Notepad is a freeware portable text editor for Microsoft Windows. The software has been developed by Juraj Šimlovič since 2001, originally as a school project. It has a similar cosmetic look to Notepad, but provides variety of features for advanced plain-text editing...
  
  
• TeXShop
  TeXShop
  TeXShop is a free TeX editor and previewer for Mac OS X. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.It was developed by the American mathematician Richard Koch. TeXShop was created especially for the Mac OS X user interface Aqua and capitalized on the native PDF support of the Macintosh operating system...
  
   – TeX
  TeX
  TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as ....
  
  /LaTeX
  LaTeX
  LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
  
   editor and previewer
• TextWrangler
  TextWrangler
  TextWrangler is a text editor for Mac OS X from Bare Bones Software. It was originally a commercial product, but has become the freeware alternative to their flagship editor, BBEdit, and the successor to their previous freeware editor, BBEdit Lite.Like BBEdit, TextWrangler is not a word processor...
  
  

Proprietary

• Alphatk
  Alphatk
  Alphatk is a text editor that was originally inspired by the Mac OS-only editor, "Alpha", but which extended to run on any platform that Tk runs on: Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.Alphatk is most useful for:...
  
  
• BBEdit
  BBEdit
  BBEdit is a proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software. It was originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and is now available for Mac OS X.BBEdit is marketed under the trademark slogan, "It doesn't suck."-History:...
  
  
• Coda
  Coda (web development software)
  Coda is a commercial and proprietary web development application for Mac OS X, developed by Panic. It was released on April 23, 2007. It won the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best User Experience. It is available for $99. - Concept and idea :...
  
  
• CodeWright
  CodeWright
  CodeWright is a Windows Programmers Editing System for software developers originally marketed by Premia Corp. and developed by Premia co-founders Eric Johnson and Don Kinzer, initially released in 1991. Premia was acquired in April 2000 by Starbase Corp...
  
  
• GoldED
  Cubic IDE
  Cubic IDE is a modular development environment for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Its central editor is GoldED 8, which supports file type centric configuration....
  
   (text editor of Cubic IDE
  Cubic IDE
  Cubic IDE is a modular development environment for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Its central editor is GoldED 8, which supports file type centric configuration....
  
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• CygnusEd
  CygnusEd
  CygnusEd is a text editor for the Amiga OS and MorphOS. It was developed in 1986-1987 by Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox and Steve LaRocque who were working for CygnusSoft Software...
  
   (CED)
• E Text Editor
• EditPlus
  EditPlus
  EditPlus is a 32-bit text editor for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Sangil Kim of ES-Computing. The editor contains tools for programmers, including syntax highlighting , file type conversions, line ending conversion , regular expressions for search-and-replace, keystroke...
  
  
• EmEditor
  EmEditor
  EmEditor is a lightweight extensible commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Yutaka Emura of Emurasoft, Inc. EmEditor includes full Unicode support, 32-bit and 64-bit builds, syntax highlighting, find and replace with regular expressions, vertical selection editing,...
  
  
• Epsilon
  Epsilon text editor
  Epsilon is a programmer's text editor modelled after Emacs. It resembles Emacs not only in its default keybindings and layout, but also in the fact that it has a Turing-complete extension language in which much of its functionality is implemented. Unlike Emacs, Epsilon's extension language, EEL is...
  
  
• GWD Text Editor
  GWD Text Editor
  GWD Text Editor is a text editor and IDE for Microsoft Windows.Features include configurable syntax highlighting, ANSI C compatible macro language, projects , plug-ins, clip library, FTP client, keystroke macros, code completion and API assistance for C/C++, Java and JavaScript, ScriptWizard,...
  
  
• Inlage
  Inlage
  Inlage or intelligent latex generator is a shareware LaTeX Integrated development environment that allows the user input LaTeX by using Windows 7's Math Input Panel...
  
   LaTeX
  LaTeX
  LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
  
   Editor
• Kedit
  Kedit
  kate, Kate, KEdit, or KEDIT may refer to:*KEDIT, a clone of XEDIT for DOS and Windows, by Mansfield Software ....
  
   text editor with commands and Rexx
  REXX
  REXX is an interpreted programming language that was developed at IBM. It is a structured high-level programming language that was designed to be both easy to learn and easy to read...
  
   macros similar to IBM Xedit
  Xedit
  xedit or XEDIT may refer to:* xedit, a text editor for the X Window System on Linux and UNIX* XEDIT, a visual text editor for the VM/CMS operating system...
  
  
• MED
  MED
  -Medicine:* Medicine * Medication, often used in the plural "meds"* Title of Medic, the first Physician degree in Argentina* Medical Extrication Device, a device for extricating an injured patient from an accident site, such as the Kendrick Extrication Device* Minimal Erythemal Dose, the minimum...
  
  
• NoteTab
  NoteTab
  NoteTab is a freeware/commercial text editor for Windows. It was developed by Eric Fookes of Fookes Software, Switzerland. The program's name refers to the fact that it was one of the earliest text-editors capable of editing several open documents on different tabs...
  
  
• PolyEdit
  PolyEdit
  PolyEdit is a compact multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been developed by PolySoft Solutions since 1998.The program can be downloaded as PolyEdit Lite, which is free for home use...
  
  
• skEdit
  SkEdit
  skEdit is a text editor for Mac OS X , aimed at web designers and programmers, developed by Sean Kelly a software engineer working for Apple Inc...
  
   (formerly called skHTML)
• SlickEdit
  SlickEdit
  SlickEdit, previously known as Visual SlickEdit, is a cross-platform commercial source code editor by SlickEdit, Inc. SlickEdit provides syntax highlighting, code navigation and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Versions from 2007 and later also support programmable code...
  
  
• Smultron
  Smultron
  Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X that is designed for both beginners and advanced users; it was originally published as open source and is now sold through the Mac App Store It is written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API...
  
   – a Mac OS X text editor
• Source Insight
  Source Insight
  Source Insight is a source code editor by Source Dynamics. Source Insight provides syntax highlighting, code navigation and customizable keyboard shortcuts...
  
  
• SubEthaEdit
  SubEthaEdit
  SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series....
  
   (formerly called Hydra)
• Sublime Text
  Sublime Text
  Sublime Text is a cross-platform C++-based text and source code editor. The program was originally designed as a feature-rich extension of vim.-Features:Some features include:*Minimap: a preview of the entire source code...
  
  
• Tex-Edit Plus
  Tex-Edit Plus
  Tex-Edit Plus is a fast and simple, styled text editor named after Texas, the author's homeland . The extensively scriptable application for Mac OS X is considered highly useful for cleaning up cross-platform text and styles.-Features:Tex-Edit Plus supports AppleScript, grep expressions, Apple's...
  
  
• TextMate
  TextMate
  TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X created by Allan Odgaard. Popular with programmers, some notable features include declarative customizations, tabs for open documents, recordable macros, folding sections and snippets, shell integration, and an extensible bundle...
  
  
• TextPad
  TextPad
  TextPad is a text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.First released in 1992, this software is currently in its fifth major version...
  
   and Wildedit
  TextPad
  TextPad is a text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.First released in 1992, this software is currently in its fifth major version...
  
  
• The SemWare Editor
  The SemWare Editor
  The SemWare Editor is a text editor computer program for MSDOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2.Starting in November 1985 as a shareware program called "Qedit" , Qedit was eventually modified to run as a Terminate and Stay Resident program, and ported to OS/2 and eventually evolved to TSE...
  
   (TSE) (formerly called QEdit)
• TopStyle
  TopStyle
  TopStyle is a CSS/XHTML/HTML editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Nick Bradbury and now maintained by Stefan van As. The editor is code-centric rather than WYSIWYG, with integrated support for previews using either the Mozilla Gecko, Internet Explorer Trident, or Apple Inc. Webkit layout engines...
  
  
• UltraEdit
  UltraEdit
  UltraEdit is a commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows, Linux and created in 1994 by Ian D. Mead. The editor contains tools for programmers, including macros, configurable syntax highlighting, code folding, file type conversions, project management, regular expressions for search-and-replace,...
  
  
• Ulysses
  Ulysses (text editor)
  Ulysses is a text editor for Mac OS X. It is targeted at creative writers who do not need to worry about formatting the text or other distractions, and who want to focus on the content of their words.-Ulysses 2.0:...
  
  
• VEDIT
  VEDIT
  Vedit is a commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS from Greenview Data, Inc.Vedit was one of the pioneers in visual editing. Today, it is a powerful and feature-rich general-purpose text editor....
  
  
• WinEdt
  WinEdt
  -External links:* *...
  
  

System default

• E
  E (PC-DOS)
  E is the text editor which was made part of PC DOS with version 6.1 in June 1993, and later with version 7 and PC DOS 2000. In version 6.1, IBM dropped QBASIC, which, in its edit mode, was also the system text editor...
  
   was the text editor in PC-DOS
  PC-DOS
  IBM PC DOS is a DOS system for the IBM Personal Computer and compatibles, manufactured and sold by IBM from the 1980s to the 2000s....
  
   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.
• ed
  Ed (text editor)
  ed is a line editor for the Unix operating system. It was one of the first end-user programs hosted on the system and has been standard in Unix-based systems ever since. ed was originally written in PDP-11/20 assembler by Ken Thompson in 1971...
  
   has been the default editor on Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
   since the birth of Unix. Either ed or a compatible editor is available on all systems labeled as Unix.
• ee, which stands for easy editor, is part of the base system of FreeBSD, along with vi.
• edlin
  Edlin
  Edlin is a line editor included with MS-DOS and later Microsoft operating systems. It provides rudimentary capabilities for editing plain text files through a command-driven interface. Line numbers are specified using numerals, and operations are specified using single-character alphabetic...
  
   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
  Nvi
  nvi is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley text editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD, and later, Unix systems. It was originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution ....
  
   (installed as vi by default in BSD operating systems and some Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
   distributions) – A free replacement for the original vi which maintains compatibility while adding some new features.
• vi
  Vi
  vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.The original code for vi...
  
   (default under Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
   – unless replaced by a vi-clone) – One of the earliest screen-based editors, available in Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
  , and part of the POSIX
  POSIX
  POSIX , an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for maintaining compatibility between operating systems...
  
   standard. Vi is based on ex.

Free software

• Diakonos
  Diakonos
  Diakonos is a customizable, usable curses-based text editor. It was developed with the intention of being easier to configure and use than Emacs, more powerful than Pico and Nano, and not as cryptic as vi or ex....
  
   – a customizable, usable console-based text editor.
• Emacs
  Emacs
  Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
  
   – A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, Emacs Lisp
  Emacs Lisp
  Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used by the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text editors . It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written in C...
  
  . Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below.
• JED
  JED (text editor)
  JED is a text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. It is highly cross-platform compatible; JED runs on Windows and all flavors on Linux and Unix. Older versions are available for DOS. It is also very lightweight , which makes it an ideal editor for older systems, embedded systems,...
  
  
• JOE
  Joe's Own Editor
  JOE or Joe's Own Editor is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL. It is designed to be easy to use.JOE is distributed in most major Linux distributions and open-source BSD systems.- Description of features :...
  
   – A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar
  WordStar
  WordStar is a word processor application, published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP/M operating system but later ported to DOS, that enjoyed a dominant market share during the early to mid-1980s. Although Seymour I...
  
   style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico.
• LE
  LE (text editor)
  LE is a text editor which appears something like the Norton Editor, but has many additional features:* rectangle select/copy/paste * search/replace with regular expressions* filtering block contents through an external program...
  
  
• mcedit
  Midnight Commander
  GNU Midnight Commander is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander originally created by Miguel de Icaza.Midnight Commander is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design:...
  
   – Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.
• MinEd
  Mined (text editor)
  MinEd is a terminal-based text editor providing extensive Unicode and CJK support, available under the GPL.Mined is available for Unix and Linux, Windows and DOS systems, and is included in the SUSE, Debian, Cygwin and FreeBSD distributions....
  
   – Text editor with user-friendly interface, mouse and menu control, and extensive Unicode and CJK support; for Unix/Linux and Windows/DOS.
• Nano
  Nano (text editor)
  nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It emulates the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email client, and also provides additional functionality....
  
   – An open source clone of Pico.
• ne
  Ne (text editor)
  ne is a console text editor for POSIX computer operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X. It uses the terminfo library, but it can also be compiled using a bundled copy of the GNU termcap implementation. There is also a Cygwin version...
  
   – a minimal, modern replacement for vi.
• SETEDIT
  SETEDIT
  SETEDIT is an open source, multi-platform clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs, with several improvements.According to the project page, it was started in 1996.It is not vi or emacs, but may be familiar to DOS users, as noted in reviews....
  
   – a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs

No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)

• Scintilla (editing component)
  Scintilla (editing component)
  Scintilla is a free library that provides text-editing functions, with an emphasis on advanced features for source code editing. SciTE , Notepad++ and Notepad2 are standalone editors based on Scintilla.-Features:...
  
   is used as the core of several text editors.
• Text Processing Utility (TPU)
  Text Processing Utility
  DEC Text Processing Utility was a language developed by Digital Equipment Corporation for developing text editors. In 1986, DEC developed a new version of EDT written in DECTPU. DECTPU is distributed with OpenVMS...
  
   – language and runtime package, developed by DEC
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
  
  , used to implement the Language-Sensitive Editor
  Language-Sensitive Editor
  LSE is a Language-Sensitive Editor for OpenVMS Operating system. LSE is implemented by using the Text Processing Utility .-External links:*...
  
   and Extensible Versatile Editor
  Extensible Versatile Editor
  EVE is a flexible text editor that is part of the VMS operating system. EVE is implemented by using the Text Processing Utility .The Emacs editor features a good EVE emulation ....
  
  , Eve.

ASCII and ANSI art

• ACiDDraw – Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
• PabloDraw
  PabloDraw
  PabloDraw is a text editor for Windows, designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw and TheDraw ....
  
   – ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via TCP/IP network connections.
• TheDraw
  TheDraw
  TheDraw is a text editor for MS DOS to create ANSI and animations as well as ASCII art. The editor is especially useful to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents, which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages, because they are not supported by Microsoft Windows...
  
   – ANSI
  Ansi
  Ansi is a village in Kaarma Parish, Saare County, on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia....
  
  /ASCII
  ASCII
  The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
  
   text editor for MS DOS and PCBoard
  PCBoard
  PCBoard was a bulletin board system application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Clark Development Corporation. Clark Development was founded by Fred Clark. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and was considered one of the "high end" packages during the rapid...
  
   file format support.

ASCII font editors

• FIGlet
  FIGlet
  FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, composed of letters made up of conglomerations of smaller ASCII characters ....
  
   – For creating ASCII Art text.
• TheDraw
  TheDraw
  TheDraw is a text editor for MS DOS to create ANSI and animations as well as ASCII art. The editor is especially useful to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents, which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages, because they are not supported by Microsoft Windows...
  
   – ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts.

Collaborative

Visual and full-screen editors

• Brief
  Brief (text editor)
  BRIEF was a very popular programmer's text editor in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was designed and developed by UnderWare Inc, a company founded in Providence, Rhode Island by David Nanian and Michael Strickman, and was published by Solution Systems. UnderWare moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1985...
  
   – 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
  Edlin
  Edlin is a line editor included with MS-DOS and later Microsoft operating systems. It provides rudimentary capabilities for editing plain text files through a command-driven interface. Line numbers are specified using numerals, and operations are specified using single-character alphabetic...
  
   in MS-DOS
  MS-DOS
  MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
  
   version 5.0 and up. Still available under Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
  , but seldom used.
• EDT
  EDT text editor
  There are at least two major text editors named EDT. One was made by Digital Equipment Corporation, the other by what was then Sperry Univac, which later became Unisys.-Digital:...
  
   – A character based editor used on DEC
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
  
   PDP-11
  PDP-11
  The PDP-11 was a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a succession of products in the PDP series. The PDP-11 replaced the PDP-8 in many real-time applications, although both product lines lived in parallel for more than 10 years...
  
  s and VAX
  VAX
  VAX was an instruction set architecture developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1970s. A 32-bit complex instruction set computer ISA, it was designed to extend or replace DEC's various Programmed Data Processor ISAs...
  
  en.
• O26
  O26 (text editor)
  O26, a full screen editor, was named after the IBM model 026 keypunch....
  
   – written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in the mid-1960s
• Red
  Red (text editor)
  RED was a screen editor written in STOIC for use with VT100s in the early 1980s. It was designed to be efficient in an interactive environment. RED's syntax was similar to TECO's. It had many features such as cut/paste and user-written macros....
  
   – A VAX
  VAX
  VAX was an instruction set architecture developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1970s. A 32-bit complex instruction set computer ISA, it was designed to extend or replace DEC's various Programmed Data Processor ISAs...
  
  /VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC
  STOIC
  STOIC was a variant of Forth.It started out at the MIT and Harvard Biomedical Engineering Centre in Boston, and was written in the mid 1970s by Jonathan Sachs...
  
  .
• se
  Se (text editor)
  se is also known as the Georgia Tech Screen Editor.According to the README file in its sources, Se started out as the version of 'ed' that came with the book 'Software Tools', by Kernighan and Plauger, which was written in Ratfor....
  
   – An early screen-based editor for Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
  .
• SED
  DEC SED (text editor)
  DEC SED was a multiplatform text editor for TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and VMS written in the early 1980s by A. Christopher Hall....
  
   – Cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on TOPS-10
  TOPS-10
  The TOPS-10 System was a computer operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation for the PDP-10 mainframe computer launched in 1967...
  
  , TOPS-20
  TOPS-20
  The TOPS-20 operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation was the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. TOPS-20 began in 1969 as the TENEX operating system of Bolt, Beranek and Newman...
  
   and VMS.
• STET
  STET (text editor)
  The STET text editor may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977 by Mike Cowlishaw. The editor runs on the IBM VM/CMS operating system....
  
   (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977.
• TeachText
  TeachText
  The TeachText application is a simple text editor made by Apple Computer bundled with System 7.1 and earlier, and was one of the only applications included with the Mac system software, leading to its most frequent role as the application to open "ReadMe" files. It was named "TeachText" as a nod to...
  
  
• TECO
  Text Editor and Corrector
  TECO is a text editor originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s, after which it was modified by 'just about everybody'...
  
   – 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
  Colossal Typewriter
  Colossal Typewriter by John McCarthy and Roland Silver was one of the earliest computer text editors. The program ran on the PDP-1 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman by December 1960....
  
   – An early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1
  PDP-1
  The PDP-1 was the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1960. It is famous for being the computer most important in the creation of hacker culture at MIT, BBN and elsewhere...
  
  
• ed – (1) Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
  's early line editor, (2) CP/M
  CP/M
  CP/M was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc...
  
  's line editor.
• edlin
  Edlin
  Edlin is a line editor included with MS-DOS and later Microsoft operating systems. It provides rudimentary capabilities for editing plain text files through a command-driven interface. Line numbers are specified using numerals, and operations are specified using single-character alphabetic...
  
   – A line editor delivered with MS-DOS
  MS-DOS
  MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
  
  .
• ex – An EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi
  Vi
  vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.The original code for vi...
  
  .
• GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) is a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 series
  GEC 4000 series
  The GEC 4000 was a series of 16/32-bit minicomputers produced by GEC Computers Ltd. of the UK during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.- History :...
  
   computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, and then adopted by GEC Computers
  GEC Computers
  GEC Computers Limited was the computer manufacturing company under the GEC holding company.-History:Starting life as Elliott Automation, the data processing computer products were transferred to ICT/ICL and non-computing products to English Electric as part of a reorganisation of the parent company...
  
   for OS4000
  OS4000
  OS4000 is a proprietary operating system introduced by GEC Computers Limited in 1977 as the successor to GEC DOS, for its range of GEC 4000 series 16-bit, and later 32-bit, minicomputers...
  
  .
• sed
  Sed
  sed is a Unix utility that parses text and implements a programming language which can apply transformations to such text. It reads input line by line , applying the operation which has been specified via the command line , and then outputs the line. It was developed from 1973 to 1974 as a Unix...
  
   – A non-interactive programmable stream editor available in Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
  .
• TECO
  Text Editor and Corrector
  TECO is a text editor originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s, after which it was modified by 'just about everybody'...
  
   – One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language.
• TEDIT – GEC 4000 series
  GEC 4000 series
  The GEC 4000 was a series of 16/32-bit minicomputers produced by GEC Computers Ltd. of the UK during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.- History :...
  
   editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT
• QED
  QED (text editor)
  QED is a line-oriented computer text editor that was developed by Butler Lampson and L. Peter Deutsch for the Berkeley Timesharing System running on the SDS 940. It was implemented by L...
  
  

See also

• Comparison of text editors
  Comparison of text editors
  This article provides basic comparisons for common text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual products' articles...
  
  
• List of word processors
• Editor war
  Editor war
  Editor war is the common name for the rivalry between users of the vi and Emacs text editors. The rivalry has become a lasting part of hacker culture and the free software community....
  
  
• Source code editor
  Source code editor
  A source code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs by programmers. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment ....