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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 .


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TEXT USER INTERFACE



System default


  • Nvi (replaced Vi as default under BSD ) — A reimplementation of vi.

  • Vi (default under Unix – unless replaced by a vi-clone) — One of the earliest screen-based editors, available in Unix , and part of the POSIX standard. Vi is based on Ex .



Others


  • 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.

  • Elvis

  • JED

  • JOE — A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced- WordStar style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico.

  • Nano - An open source clone of Pico.

  • Pico

  • Se — An early screen-based editor for Unix , based on Ed .

  • SEDT — A multiplatform EDT work-alike

  • SETEDIT — An open source, multi-platform clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo--- IDEs, with several improvements.

  • Vile — A vi work-alike which retains the vi command-set while adding aspects of the Emacs editing paradigm: multiple windows and buffers, infinite undo, colorization, scriptable expansion capabilities, etc.

  • mcedit - Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.



NO USER INTERFACE (EDITOR LIBRARY, TOOLKIT)




COLLABORATIVE




ASCII ART


  • ACiDDraw — Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).

  • Boxer — Allows graphic/line drawing when using PC-8/OEM character set

  • JavE

  • PabloDraw



HISTORICAL



Visual and full-screen editors




Line editors


  • Ed — (1) Unix 's early character-based editor, (2) CP/M 's line editor.

  • Edlin — A character-based editor delivered with MS-DOS .

  • Ex — An EXtended version of Unix's Ed , later evolved into the visual editor Vi .

  • Sed — An non-interactive programmable character-based text editor available in Unix .

  • TECO — One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language.

  • QED



SEE ALSO