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The following is a list of Text Editor s. For a list of Outliner s, 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 (libre/open-source)




Freeware



Commercial



TEXT USER INTERFACE


System default


  • 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 (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 .

  • Ee (Easy Edit) —a simple text editor for FreeBSD.

  • 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.

  • EDIT was the default on MS-DOS since version 5 and is still available on all versions of Windows.

  • E was the text editor in PC-DOS 7, PC-DOS 2000, and OS/2

  • Edlin was the default editor on MS-DOS prior to version 5 and is also still available on Windows.



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.

  • LE

  • Nano — An open source clone of Pico.

  • Pico

  • SETEDIT — a clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo--- IDEs

  • 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

Editors and viewers 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).

  • Empathy — ANSI/ASCII/XBin/ADF editor supporting also many custom BBS display formats.

  • JavE

  • PabloDraw — ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via TCP/IP network connections.

  • Tetradraw — an ANSI art editor for ---nix operating systems with mult-user editing suport.

  • TheDrawANSI / ASCII text editor for MS DOS and PCBoard file format support

  • TundraDraw — a cross-platform ANSI and ASCII editor



ASCII Font Editors

  • FIGlet — For creating ASCII Art text.

  • TheDraw — ANSI/ASCII text editor with build in editor and manage of ASCII fonts



HISTORICAL


Visual and full-screen editors




Line editors

  • Colossal Typewriter — An early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1

  • 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 .

  • GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) was a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 Series computers {Link without Title}

  • Sed — A non-interactive programmable character-based text 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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