Comparison of text editors

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This article provides basic comparisons for notable text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual products' articles. This article may not be up-to-date or necessarily all-inclusive.

Feature comparisons are made between stable versions of software, not the upcoming versions or beta releases – and are exclusive of any add-ons, extensions or external programs (unless specified in footnotes).

Overview

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|+ List of text editors

! rowspan="2" | Name

! rowspan="2" | Developer

! rowspan="2" | Initial release

! colspan="2" | Latest release

! rowspan="2" | Program{{shy}}ming language

! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="currency" | Cost (US$)

! rowspan="2" | License

! rowspan="2" | GUI

! rowspan="2" | TUI or CLI

class=sticky-table-none data-sort-type="number"| Version

! Date

nowrap {{rh}} | Acme

| Rob Pike

| 1993

| Plan 9 and Inferno

|

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MIT
GPL-2.0-only
LPL-1.02}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

| Alexey Kuznetsov
Alexander Shengalts

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1084900|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1084900|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|BSD-2-Clause}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

| Vince Darley

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4735278|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q4735278|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

|

| {{nonfree|$40}}

| {{partial|Proprietary, with BSD components}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

| GitHub

| 2014

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q16766305|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q16766305|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MIT}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

| Rich Siegel

| 1992

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q795617|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q795617|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Objective-C, Objective-C++

| {{partial|No cost for most features, $49.99 for full version}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

| Bluefish Development Team

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q651027|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q651027|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

| Adobe Systems

| 2012

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4683967|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q4683967|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MIT}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

| Panic

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1105496|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1105496|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Objective-C

| {{nonfree|$99}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

|

nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

| ConTEXT Project Ltd

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q728134|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q728134|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Object Pascal (Delphi)

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|BSD-3-Clause}}

| {{ya}}

|

nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

| Ingyu Kang

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2591922|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q2591922|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

|

nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

| UVViewSoft{{efn|alexey_t, kvichans, matthias030.}}

| 2015

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q55430618|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q55430618|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Object Pascal (Lazarus)

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MPL-2.0}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | ed

| Ken Thompson

| 1970

| unchanged from original

|

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|?}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

| Cody Precord

| 2007

| 0.7.20

| 2013-01-05

| Python

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|wxWindows license}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

| Emurasoft, Inc.

| 1997

| 21.3.0

| 2021-11-24

| C++

| {{nonfree|$39.99}}

| {{proprietary|Shareware}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | epsilon

| Lugaru Software

| 1984

| 14.00{{Cite web |title=Epsilon 14 Update Information |url=https://lugaru.com/updinfo.html |access-date=2020-10-22 |website=Lugaru Software, Ltd.}}

| 2020-10-20

| C

| {{nonfree|$250}}

| {{proprietary}}

|

|

nowrap {{rh}} | FeatherPad

| Pedram Pourang

| 2016

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q78908533|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q78908533|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++, Qt

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | FocusWriter

| Graeme Gott

| 2008

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4038855|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q4038855|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++, Qt

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

| GNU Project

| 2000

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q194501|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q194501|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

| Enrico Tröger

| 2005

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1122464|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1122464|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, GTK+

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-2.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

| Richard Stallman

| 1984

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1252773|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1252773|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, Emacs Lisp

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU nano

| Chris Allegretta

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q306101|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q306101|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | IA Writer

| Information Architects

| 2010.09.22

| 5.6

| 2020-12-07

| Objective-C (iOS), Objective-C (macOS), C# (Windows), Java (Android)

| {{nonfree|$29.99}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

| John E. Davis

| 1992

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q467413|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q467413|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, S-Lang

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-2.0-or-later}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| Slava Pestov

| 1998

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q292976|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q292976|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Java

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-2.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

| Joseph Allen

| 1988

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1691315|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1691315|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| Johnathon Payne

| 1983

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q3156938|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q3156938|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|JOVE license}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

| KDE Project

| 2000-12

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q261933|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q261933|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|LGPL, MIT}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

| Mansfield Software Group, Inc.

| 1983

| 1.6.1

| 2016-12-05

| C

| {{nonfree|$129}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

| Activestate

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1265324|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1265324|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MPL, GPL, LGPL}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

| Activestate

| 2001

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q21043327|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q21043327|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby

| {{nonfree|$295}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

| KDE Project

| 2000

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q742712|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q742712|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|LGPL}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | LE

| Alexander V. Lukyanov

| 1997

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4042433|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q4042433|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Leo

| Edward K. Ream

| 1996

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q6523506|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q6523506|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Python

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MIT}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Light Table

| Chris Granger

| 2012

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q6546235|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q6546235|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| ClojureScript

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MIT}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | mcedit

| Miguel de Icaza

| 1994

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1340000|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1340000|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, Python, PHP, Javascript, Perl, Tcl, Ruby

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

| Alexander Davidson

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q11777663|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q11777663|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | mg

| Dave Conroy

| 1986

| current{{efn|last update in OpenBSD repo{{Cite web |title=src/usr.bin/mg at master · openbsd/src |url=https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.bin/mg |access-date=2020-10-21 |website=GitHub |language=en}}}}

| 2020-07-22

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|Public domain}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | MinEd

| Thomas Wolff

| 1992

| 2022.27

| 2022-12-23

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

| Microsoft

| 1991

| 2.0.026

|

|

| {{nonfree|Bundled with MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | ne

| Sebastiano Vigna
Todd Lewis
Daniele Filaretti

| 1993

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q6983892|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q6983892|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

| Mark Edel

| 1991

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2719620|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q2719620|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-2.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

| Microsoft

| 1985

| 11.2302.16.0

|

| MASM (originally)

| {{nonfree|Bundled with Microsoft Windows}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

| Don Ho

| 2003-11-25

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2033|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q2033|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

| Keith Bostic

| 1994

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q556171|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q556171|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|BSD-3-Clause}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

| University of Washington

| 1992

| 4.64

|

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|Apache-2.0}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PimNote

| Pimtel

| 2023

| 1.2.0Pimtel. [https://www.pimtel.com/pimnote/ Pimnote].

| 2023-04-22

| C#

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

| PolySoft Solutions

| 1998

| 5.4

| 2010{{nbh}}04{{nbh}}07

|

| {{nonfree|$27.95}}

| {{proprietary|Shareware}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

| Jan Fiala

| 2002

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1342374|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1342374|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Object Pascal (Delphi)

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

| Rickard Johansson

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4047864|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q4047864|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Object Pascal (Delphi)

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

| Rob Pike

| 1980s (early)

| stable

|

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|LPL (OSI approved)}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

| Neil Hodgson

| 1999

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q186301|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q186301|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C++

| {{partial|$41.99 for macOS. No cost for others}}

| {{open source|HPND}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

| SlickEdit, Inc.

| 1988

| 28.0.1

| 2024-01-21

| C, Slick-C

| {{nonfree|$299}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

| Peter Borg

| 2004

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q167140|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q167140|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Objective-C

| {{nonfree|$7.99}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

| TheCoding{{shy}}Monkeys

| 2003

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q664378|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q664378|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

|

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MIT}}

| {{ya}}

|

nowrap {{rh}} | Sublime Text

| {{#statements:developer|from=Q267193}}

| 2008

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q267193|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q267193|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| {{#statements:P277|from=Q267193}}

| {{nonfree|$99}}

| {{proprietary|Shareware}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

| Juraj Simlovic

| 2001

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1761171|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q1761171|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Textadept

| Mitchell

| 2007

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q18388827|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q18388827|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, Lua

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|MIT}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

| Apple Inc.

| 2001

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q519774|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q519774|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

|

| {{free|No cost (also bundled with macOS)}}

| {{open source|BSD-3-Clause}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

| MacroMates

| 2004-10-10

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2297533|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q2297533|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| Objective-C++

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-3.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

| Helios Software Solutions

| 1992

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2295946|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q2295946|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

|

| {{nonfree|$30.00 (£16.50)}}

| {{proprietary|Shareware}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

| Bare Bones Software

| 2003

| 5.5.2

| 2016-09-20

|

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

|

nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

| Sammy Mitchell

| 1985-11

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q7763278|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q7763278|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, SAL

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|BSD-2-Clause}}

|

|

nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

| IDM Computer Solutions

| 1994

| 25.0

| 2018-03-12

| C++

| {{nonfree|$99.95}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

| Ted Green, Greenview Data

| 1980

| 6.24.2

| 2015-01-12

| Assembly, C

| {{nonfree|$89 standard, $239 Pro64}}

| {{proprietary}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | vi

| Bill Joy

| 1976

| 3.7

|

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|BSD-4-Clause}} or CDDL

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

| Bram Moolenaar

| 1991

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q131382|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q131382|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, Vim script

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|Vim}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

| Microsoft

| 2015

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q19841877|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q19841877|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| JavaScript, TypeScript

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{partial|Source code: MIT{{cite web | url=https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt | title=LICENSE.txt | publisher=Microsoft | work=github.com/Microsoft/vscode | date=17 November 2015}}
Binaries built by Microsoft: Proprietary{{Cite web |url=https://code.visualstudio.com/license |title=Microsoft Software License Terms |website=code.visualstudio.com |publisher=Microsoft |access-date=16 August 2016}}{{Cite web |title=The best parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary |url=https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-are-proprietary.html}}}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

| Lucid Inc.

| 1991

| {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q2164944|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| {{wikidata|qualifier|raw|preferred|single|Q2164944|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| C, Emacs Lisp

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-2.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

| Olaf Wintermann

| 2018

| 1.5.2

| 2023-10-05

| C

| {{free|No cost}}

| {{open source|GPL-2.0-or-later}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

{{sticky table end}}

Operating system support

This section lists the operating systems that different editors can run on. Some editors run on additional operating systems that are not listed.

=Cross-platform=

{{sticky header}}{{sort under}}

class="wikitable sortable sticky-header sort-under" style="max-width: 30em;"

|+ Text editor support for various operating systems

valign=bottom

! nowrap {{rh}} |

! Microsoft Windows

! macOS

! Linux

! BSD

! Unix

! OpenVMS

nowrap {{rh}} | Acme

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=plan9windows|No native support, available as a part of the Inferno port for Windows or by using `plan9port` over the WSL.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Arachnophilia

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | ed

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=cygwin}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | epsilon

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
{{Cite web|url=http://www.lugaru.com/newv13.html|title=New Features in Epsilon 13|website=www.lugaru.com}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=gedit_mac|[http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ GEdit], when installed from MacPorts, runs in X11 and, therefore, does not have a native look and feel. However, precompiled native macOS binaries for GEdit may be downloaded from the GEdit project page, or from the [http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/mac/gedit/ GEdit FTP download server].}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

| {{ya}}{{dubious|Joe's own editor (sic)|date=August 2017}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | LE

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=cygwin}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Light Table

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | mg

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | MinEd

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU nano

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | ne

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name="cygwin"|Requires Cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run on Windows.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=cygwin}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=geditOSX|gedit, NEdit, and SciTE run in the X11 window environment, and therefore do not use the native Aqua look-and-feel when running on macOS.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=plan9windows}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=geditOSX}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Sublime Text

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Textadept

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Ulysses (text editor)

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | vi

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=cygwin}}{{efn|name=nsis|Stand alone NSIS installable package is available}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=geditOSX|gedit, NEdit, and SciTE run in the X11 window environment, and therefore do not use the native Aqua look-and-feel when running on macOS.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

Natural language (localization)

class="wikitable sortable" style="max-width: 60em; table-layout: fixed"

|+ Available languages for the {{abbr|UI|user interface}}

valign=bottom

! !! Languages supported

nowrap {{rh}} | Acme

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

| English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish

nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

|English

nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

| English, German, French, Polish(Outdated), Korean, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish(Outdated)

nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

| English, German, French, Spanish

nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

| English, German, French, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish

nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

|Main: English. Addons: Japanese, French, Polish, Korean, Hungarian (2018), Greek, German (2017), and 9 others

nowrap {{rh}} | ed

|

nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

| English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

| English, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish

nowrap {{rh}} | epsilon

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

| English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi

nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

| English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | JOE{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/po/|title=JOE - Joe's own editor|website=JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /po|access-date=23 October 2015}}

| English, German, French

nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Kate{{Cite web|url=https://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable/po/kate.po/|title=KDE Localization - Apps » stable » kate.po|website=l10n.kde.org}}

| English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

| English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad{{Cite web|url=https://liquidninja.com/metapad/translations-download.html|title=Metapad language plugins|website=liquidninja.com}}

| English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | mined

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

| English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

| English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese

nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

| English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

| English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi

nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

| English, Italian

nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

| English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

| English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE{{Cite web|url=https://scintilla.org/SciTETranslation.html|title=Localised SciTE|website=scintilla.org}}

| English, German, French (Outdated (1.72)), Polish, Japanese (Outdated (1.62)), Italian, Dutch (Outdated (1.67)), Portuguese (Outdated (1.63)), Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

| English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

| English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

| English, German, French, Polish (Outdated (4.7.3)), Japanese, Italian(Outdated (4.7.3)), Dutch (Outdated (4.7.3)), Spanish (Outdated (4.7.3)), Portuguese (Outdated (4.7.3))

nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

| English, German, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese

nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | vi

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

| Afrikaans, Catalan, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, English(UK), English(US), Esperanto, Finnish, French, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian(Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese(Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

| English, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

| English

nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

| English

Document interface

{{sticky header}}{{sort under}}

class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="max-width: 30em; table-layout: fixed; margin-top: 0"

|+ Text editor support for common document interfaces

valign=bottom

!

! Multiple instances

! Single document window splitting

! MDI: overlappable windows

! MDI: tabbed document interface

! MDI: window splitting

nowrap {{rh}} | Acme

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

{{rh}} | Atom

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | ed

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|gedit supports single document window splitting via plug{{nbh}}ins. [http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214053935/http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins |date=2011-12-14 }}.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|gedit supports multiple document window splitting via plug{{nbh}}ins. [http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214053935/http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins |date=2011-12-14 }}.}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name="tabbar" |GNU Emacs 27.1 includes built-in support for tab bar (per-frame) and tab-line (per-window). Earlier versions of GNU Emacs can use a tabbed document interface in a non OS-native way using the [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabBarMode Tabbar] plug{{nbh}}in.}}{{efn|name="elscreen"|GNU Emacs can support a tabbed document interface modelled after GNU Screen using the [http://www.morishima.net/~naoto/software/elscreen/ elscreen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117083341/http://www.morishima.net/~naoto/software/elscreen/ |date=2008-01-17 }} package.}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}
{{efn|name="joetabs" |JOE supports editing multiple files but only seeing one of them, and switching to others via Ctrl+K+N, which is functionally equivalent to having tabs but no visible tab bar.}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | LE

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Light Table

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | mined

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}
{{efn|mined supports Copy/Paste between multiple documents in separate windows, when these documents are in separate terminal windows}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
2 windows

nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|SciTE_max_buffers|SciTE has a maximum number of buffers, which can only be set as high as 100.}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{na}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

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nowrap {{rh}} | vi

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nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=vimOV|Vim Provided GVim is used.}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=vimTDI|Vim version 7 supports a tabbed document interface. Earlier versions can emulate tabs through scripts, for example.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1338|title=TabBar - Plugin to add tab bar ( derived from miniBufExplorer). : vim online|website=www.vim.org}}}}

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{{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

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| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

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nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

| {{ya}}

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| {{na}}

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valign=top

!

! Multiple instances

! Single document window splitting

! MDI: overlappable windows

! MDI: tabbed document interface

! MDI: window splitting

= Notes =

  • Multiple instances: multiple instances of the program can be opened simultaneously for editing multiple files. Applies both for single document interface (SDI) and multiple document interface (MDI) programs. Also applies for program that has a user interface that looks like multiple instances of the same program (such as some versions of Microsoft Word).
  • Single document window splitting: window can be split to simultaneously view different areas of a file.
  • MDI: Overlappable windows: each opened document gets its own fully movable window inside the editor environment.
  • MDI: Tabbed document interface: multiple documents can be viewed as tabs in a single window.
  • MDI: Window splitting: splitting application window to show multiple documents (non-overlapping windows).

Basic features

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|+ Text editor support for basic editing features

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!

! Spell checking

! Regex-based find & replace

! Encoding conversion

! Newline conversion

! Multiple undo/redo

! Rectangular block selection

! Virtual space support

nowrap {{rh}} | Acme

| {{ya}}
external{{efn|name=acmeext|Acme can invoke external commands and display their return values in order to integrate additional functionality.}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

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nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

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{{rh}} | Atom

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Plug{{nbh}}in

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nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}

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Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

| {{na}}

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=ConTEXT_regex|ConTEXT does not support regular expression backreferences in its search and replace function. [http://www.context.cx/] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20071218233757/http://www.context.cx/ |date=2007-12-18 }} }}

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=ConTEXT_Character_Encoding|ConTEXT only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16.}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

| {{ya}}
Instant/live (like Firefox)

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

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nowrap {{rh}} | ed

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| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|Geany supports spell checking [https://plugins.geany.org/spellcheck.html via a plug{{nbh}}in]}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}{{cite web | url=https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#virtual-spaces | title=Geany }}

nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=geditSpellChecking|gedit supports spell checking via a plug{{nbh}}in, which is distributed with gedit.}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|gedit supports Regex-based find & replace via plug{{nbh}}ins ([http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214053935/http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins |date=2011-12-14 }}).}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{yes2|plug{{nbh}}in}}
{{cite web|url=https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/ColumnMode|title=Gedit/Plugins/ColumnMode - GNOME Wiki!|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111004835/http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/ColumnMode|archive-date=2012-01-11}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|name=emacs_spell|Emacs supports spell checking via the external programs ispell, aspell, or Hunspell.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}{{cite web |title=Virtual space for rectangular selections (at least) |website=Stack Exchange |url=https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/27051/virtual-space-for-rectangular-selections-at-least |access-date=13 March 2023}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|name=jeditSpellChecking|jEdit supports spell checking via an external plug{{nbh}}in.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}{{cite web | url=http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/selection.html | title=Selecting Text }}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|name=joeSpellChecking|JOE supports spell checking via the ispell or aspell external plug{{nbh}}ins.}}

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=joeRegexp|JOE uses a non-standard regular expression syntax.}}

| {{na}}
{{efn|name=joeCharset|JOE can easily pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility; it detects locale settings and allows editing in any encoding set up by the environment.}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| {{ya}}

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| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}{{efn|name=KomodoEditVs|Komodo Edit is based on Scintilla and may support virtual space similar to Geany and Notepad++ ([https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaRelated.html])}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}{{efn|name=KomodoIDEVs|Komodo IDE is based on Scintilla and may support virtual space similar to Geany and Notepad++ ([https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaRelated.html])}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | LE

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}
{{efn|name=LECharset|LE can pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Light Table

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/rschroll/lt-spelling|title=GitHub - rschroll/lt-spelling: Spell check plugin for Light Table.|date=April 29, 2015|via=GitHub}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=metapadSpellChecking|Metapad spell checking by calling external program Aspell.}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | mg

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}
{{Cite web|url=http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/usr.bin/mg/re_search.c|title=Super User's BSD Cross Reference: /OpenBSD/usr.bin/mg/re_search.c|website=bxr.su}}

| {{na}}

| {{partial}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | MinEd

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|mined supports multiple lines in search and replacement expressions.}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|mined can convert the encoding format when using the Copy & Paste feature between multiple documents (that have different encodings).}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|mined supports new-line conversion via a command-line option or from the menu. Files with mixed newline types can be edited transparently; different kinds of new-line have different visual indications.}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

| {{na}}

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| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

! Spell checking

! Regex-based find & replace

! Encoding conversion

! Newline conversion

! Multiple undo/redo

! Rectangular block selection

!Virtual Space Support

nowrap {{rh}} | ne

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}inNEdit supports spell checking via a plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{Partial}}

| {{Partial}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

| {{ya}}
[http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.3.3-release.html Notepad++ 6.3.3] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126192732/http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.3.3-release.html |date=2013-11-26 }} and above support spell checking via the DSpellCheck plug{{nbh}}in, which is included with the default package.

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

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nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

| {{ya}}
external{{efn|name=samext|It is possible to start external applications from inside Sam and display their return values.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

| {{na}}

| {{Partial|Limited}}
{{efn|Scintilla-based editors such as SciTE, Notepad2 and Notepad++ do not support alternation (|) in regular expressions.}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}{{cn|date=March 2025}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
SubEthaEdit supports advanced block editing, including multi-line typing and non-contiguous block selections.

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Sublime Text

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}{{cite web | url=https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/virtual-space/455/15 | title=Virtual space | date=28 March 2012 }}

nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{Partial}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{Partial|Limited}}
{{efn|name=UERegexp|UltraEdit uses the Boost C++ regex library. While Boost supports backreferences past \9 with \g{10}, UltraEdit has not yet implemented this feature.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=VeditSpellChecking|VEDIT 6.2 comes with Scribe spelling checker which has been written entirely in Vedit macro language. In addition, macro package for integrating Aspell can be downloaded [http://koti.mbnet.fi/pkl/vedit/aspell.htm here].}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | vi

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=vimSpellChecking|Vim version 7 supports spell checking natively. Earlier versions require a script.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=195|title=Engspchk - Spelling checker: On-the-fly spell checking, multi-language, alternate spellings : vim online|website=www.vim.org}} }}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{no}}{{cite web |title=Indent with virtual spaces in Vim? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/l6lph3/indent_with_virtual_spaces_in_vim/ |website=reddit.com|date=28 January 2021 }}

{{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{Partial|Limited}}
{{efn|Visual Studio Code does not support virtual space, and rectangular selection beyond line endings is not possible.}}

| {{na}}{{cite web | url=https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 | title=Virtual Space is not implemented. · Issue #13960 · microsoft/Vscode | website=GitHub }}

nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|name=emacs_spell}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XNedit

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

valign=top

!

! Spell checking

! Regex-based find & replace

! Encoding conversion

! Newline conversion

! Multiple undo/redo

! Rectangular block selection

!Virtual Space Support

Programming features

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class="wikitable sticky-header sortable" style="max-width: 30em; table-layout: fixed"

|+ Text editor support for programming features (see source code editor)

valign=bottom

!

! Syntax highlighting

! Function list

! Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.)

! Brace matching

! Auto indentation

! Auto completion

! Code folding

! Text folding

! Compiler integration

nowrap {{rh}} | Acme

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}
external{{efn|name=acmeext}}

| {{ya}}
external{{efn|name=acmeext}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|Acme's auto-completion only works on file names.}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}
external{{efn|name=acmeext}}

nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=bluefish-unstable3|bluefish: Configurable via the outputbox feature.}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name=openctags|With external tool [http://openctags.sourceforge.net/ OpenCTags]}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

| {{ya}}

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Plug{{nbh}}in

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Plug{{nbh}}in

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nowrap {{rh}} | ed

| {{na}}

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| {{na}}

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| {{na}}

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external{{efn|name=edext|ed can invoke external commands, like a compiler.}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|EmEditor Professional supports Auto Complete via plug{{nbh}}ins ([http://www.emeditor.com/files/autocomplete700x86-zip/ 32-bit] or [http://www.emeditor.com/files/autocomplete700x64-zip/ 64-bit]).}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=geanytags|Geany uses its own tags file format, not compatible with ctags, see [http://www.geany.org/manual/current/#tags the manual].}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{Partial}}

| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}

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Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in{{efn|name=gedit-folding|gedit-folding: Folding plug{{nbh}}in for Gedit}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=geditPlugin|gedit: Compiler integration: Functionality in plug{{nbh}}ins installed with gedit.}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | JED

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| {{ya}}

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Plug{{nbh}}in

| {{ya}}
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| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

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| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
Plug{{nbh}}in

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Plug{{nbh}}in

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nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

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! Function list

! Symbol database
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! Bracket matching

! Auto indentation

! Auto completion

! Code folding

! Text folding

! Compiler integration

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!

! Syntax highlighting

! Function list

! Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.)

! Bracket matching

! Auto indentation

! Auto completion

! Code folding

! Text folding

! Compiler integration

= Notes =

  • Syntax highlighting: Displays text in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms.
  • Function list: Lists all functions from current file in a window or sidebar and allows user to jump directly to the definition of that function for example by double-clicking on the function name in the list. More or less realtime (does not require creating a symbol database, see below).
  • Symbol database: Database of functions, variable and type definitions, macro definitions etc. in all the files belonging to the software being developed. The database can be created by the editor itself or by an external program such as ctags. The database can be used to instantly locate the definition even if it is in another file.
  • Bracket matching: Find matching parenthesis or bracket, taking into account nesting.
  • Auto indentation: May refer to just simple indenting to the same level as the line above, or intelligent indenting that is language specific, e.g., ensuring a given indent style.
  • Compiler integration: Allows running compilers/linkers/debuggers from within editor, capturing the compiler output and stepping through errors, automatically moving cursor to corresponding location in the source file.

Extra features

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|+ Text editor support for other programming features

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!

! Text shell integration

! Graphical shell integration

! Macro language

! Collaborative editing

! Large file support

! Long line support

! Multi-line regex support{{efn|name=multi_line_regex|Multi-line regex support Support for expressions spanning several lines (e.g. "\n\n(.+)\n\n")}}

! Search in files

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nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

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metapad FAQ, [http://liquidninja.com/metapad/faq.html#Q4 Loading Large Files]

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! Text shell integration

! Graphical shell integration

! Macro language

! Collaborative editing

! Large file support

! Long line support

! Multi-line regex support

! Search in files

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{{Cite web|url=http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,49191|title=PSPad forum / Bug report / Hlášení chyb / cannot open large file|website=forum.pspad.com}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

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nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

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nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

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{{Cite web|url=http://kb.mozillazine.org/Edit_large_mbox_files|title=Edit large mbox files - MozillaZine Knowledge Base|website=kb.mozillazine.org}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

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"TextWrangler is a RAM-based editor, and it uses system memory to hold open files. TextWrangler also represents open documents as Unicode, which uses two bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS X limitation, this means that you can open files up to 384 megabytes in size." [http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/faqs.html TextWrangler FAQs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010173050/http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/faqs.html |date=2019-10-10 }}.

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nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

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{{efn|2GB with 32 Bits, on a 64 Bit system it depends on the available virtual memory.}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

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nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

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{{efn|name=EmacsFSLimit|Emacs: 64-bit compilation on 64-bit OS can handle 2 GB files, otherwise the limit is 512 MiB. [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.23.2]}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

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valign=top

!

! Text shell integration

! Graphical shell integration

! Macro language

! Collaborative editing

! Large file support

! Long line support

! Multi-line regex support

! Search in files

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| = Some limit less than available memory (give max size if known)

In general, most text editors do not support large text files. Some restrict themselves to available in-core RAM while others use sophisticated virtual memory management techniques and paging algorithms.Comparison of Windows Text Editors for Large Files: [http://www.knudvaneeden.com/tinyurl.php?urlKey=url000400 Text editors for large files]

Search in files:

Perform search (and possibly replace) in multiple files on disk, for example on a sub-directory and recursively all the directories below it.

Similar to grep.

Key bindings

Support for custom key bindings.

class="wikitable sortable" style="max-width: 30em; table-layout: fixed"

|+ Text editor support for key bindings.

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!

! Dynamically customizable

! IBM CUA

! macOS

! Vi

! Emacs

! Pico

! WordStar

! WordPerfect

! Brief

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nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

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nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

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nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

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nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

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nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

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nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

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nowrap {{rh}} | ed

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nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

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nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

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nowrap {{rh}} | epsilon

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nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

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nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

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{{efn|It is possible to customize all Gedit shortcuts because it is Gtk based.}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

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|{{Partial}}
pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc. See [http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~diochnos/ta/2008/mcs260/terminal/pico_tutorial.pdf Pico: A Unix text editor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905115648/http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~diochnos/ta/2008/mcs260/terminal/pico_tutorial.pdf |date=2012{{nbh}}09{{nbh}}05 }} retrieved 2012{{nbh}}01{{nbh}}09.

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GNU Emacs can have Wordstar emulation, with the command M-x wordstar-mode, as found from [http://web.mit.edu/Emacs/source/emacs/lisp/emulation/ws-mode.el ws-mode.el] retrieved 2017{{nbh}}03{{nbh}}14. See also the "Emulation" section of the previous [https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/emacs/html_node/emacs_467.html GNU Emacs manual]. The WordStar mode, however, has [https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/obsolete/ws-mode.el been obsolete] since GNU Emacs 24.5.

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nowrap {{rh}} | JED

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|{{Partial}}
{{efn|name=JedCUAkeys|The JED base release comes with a basic CUA emulation, but it doesn't bother to bind lots of useful editor features. Also, like some other editors, 1 side of a region must be at the cursor. The main extension collections [http://jedmodes.sourceforge.net jedmodes]/[https://packages.debian.org/stretch/jed-extra jed-extra] and the [https://gitlab.com/dram/red "Red Project"] have improved versions, tackling the former problem in particular.}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOE{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/docs/man.md|title=JOE - Joe's Own Editor|website=JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md|access-date=23 October 2015|quote=JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close imitation of WordStar [...]. JPICO is a close imitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO editor [...]. JMACS is a GNU-EMACS imitation. [...] Key binding tables are defined. You can define as many as you like [...].}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

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{{Cite web|url=http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news046f1/b66/net/sources/00005623.html|title=Usenet|website=www.megalextoria.com}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | LE

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nowrap {{rh}} | Light Table

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nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

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nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

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nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

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nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

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nowrap {{rh}} | mg

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nowrap {{rh}} | mined

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nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

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nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

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nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

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nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

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|{{Partial}}
pico (and nano) uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc. See [http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~diochnos/ta/2008/mcs260/terminal/pico_tutorial.pdf Pico: A Unix text editor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905115648/http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~diochnos/ta/2008/mcs260/terminal/pico_tutorial.pdf |date=2012{{nbh}}09{{nbh}}05 }} retrieved 2012{{nbh}}01{{nbh}}09.

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nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

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nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

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nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

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{{efn|In SciTE, custom keystrokes may be assigned to Lua scripts, external programs or lexers (highlighters).}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

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{{efn|name=vsbind|SlickEdit provides emulation of Visual Studio, Visual C++ 6, CodeWright, Epsilon and ISPF key bindings in addition to those given in the table.}}

|{{ya}}

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{{efn|name=vsosxbind|SlickEdit supports CodeWarrior, Xcode and BBEdit key binding emulation.}}

|{{partial}}
{{efn|name=vsvimbind|SlickEdit includes support of vi key bindings, the ex command line and some, but not all Vim extensions.}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

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nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler{{Cite web|url=http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/features.html|title=Bare Bones Software {{pipe}} TextWrangler Features|website=www.barebones.com|access-date=2009-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811014917/http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/features.html|archive-date=2017-08-11|url-status=dead}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

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Vedit: Old Unix and QNX versions could emulate Vi 100%. Windows version doesn't come with vi emulation.

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nowrap {{rh}} | vi

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nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

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Plug{{nbh}}in{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/likaci/ViFinder|title=GitHub - likaci/ViFinder: Vim like Keybinding FileManager for OS X.|date=October 13, 2019|via=GitHub}}

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{{efn|name="vimvibind|Vim emulates vi keys fully when in 'compatible' mode}}

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Plug{{nbh}}in{{Cite web|url=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nisheetjain.emacs|title=Emacs - Visual Studio Marketplace|website=marketplace.visualstudio.com}}

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!

! Dynamically customizable

! IBM CUA

! macOS

! Vi

! Emacs

! Pico

! WordStar

! WordPerfect

! Brief

= Notes, bugs =

  • Vim: custom maps of Ctrl-1 .. Ctrl-9, Ctrl-0 cannot be set, nor is Control-Shift-<char> distinguished from Ctrl-<char>.{{Cite web|url=http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/unable-to-map-ctrl-1-td1186261.html|title=Vim - General - unable to map ctrl-1|website=vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com|access-date=2017-11-30|archive-date=2017-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044447/http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/unable-to-map-ctrl-1-td1186261.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/How-to-map-say-Ctrl-Shift-B-td1183582.html|title=Vim - General - How to map (say) Ctrl-Shift-B|website=vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com|access-date=2017-11-30|archive-date=2017-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044609/http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/How-to-map-say-Ctrl-Shift-B-td1183582.html|url-status=dead}}
  • Notepad++: custom shortcuts of Shift-<char> cannot be set, they need an added modifier such as Ctrl or Alt. i.e. SCI_LINESCROLLUP cannot be bound to "Shift-I"as the "Add"button is greyed out.
  • Emacs and Pico: pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc.

Protocol support

Support for editing files over a network or the Internet.

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|+ Text editor support for remote file editing over network protocols

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! FTP

! HTTP

! SSH

! WebDAV

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nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

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nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

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nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

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nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

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Plug{{nbh}}in

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nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

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nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

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nowrap {{rh}} | ed

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nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

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nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

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nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

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nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

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nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

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nowrap {{rh}} | JED

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nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

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plug{{nbh}}injEdit FTP and SFTP are supported via the FTP plug{{nbh}}in.

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jEdit: "[http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/plugins.html#id2554545 HTTP is supported natively]"

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

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nowrap {{rh}} | LE

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nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

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nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

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FTP, FTPS, SFTP

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nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

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nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

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nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

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! FTP

! HTTP

! SSH

! WebDAV

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

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Plug{{nbh}}in for FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP

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nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

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nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

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FTP, SFTP

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nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

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nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

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nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

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nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

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FTP, SFTP{{Cite web|url=http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/featuresutility.html|title=Bare Bones Software {{pipe}} TextWrangler Tour|website=www.barebones.com|access-date=2019-11-16|archive-date=2019-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129002115/http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/featuresutility.html|url-status=dead}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

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nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

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!

! FTP

! HTTP

! SSH

! WebDAV

Unicode and other character encodings

To support specified character encoding, the editor must be able to load, save, view and edit text in the specific encoding and not destroy any characters. For UTF-8 and UTF-16, this requires internal 16-bit character support.

Partial support is indicated if: 1) the editor can only convert the character encoding to internal (8-bit) format for editing.

2) If some encodings are supported only in some platforms.

3) If the editor can only display specific character set (such as OEM) by loading corresponding font, but does not support keyboard entry for that character set.

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|+ Text editor support for some of the most common character encodings

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!

! ASCII

! ISO-8859

! DOS (OEM)

! EBCDIC

! UTF-8

! UTF-16

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nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

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nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

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{{efn|name=gnuEmacsUTF8|GNU Emacs: While GNU Emacs supports the UTF-8 encoding, it doesn't fully support the Unicode standard, since it doesn't fully support the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section below).}}

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{{efn|name=gnuEmacsUTF16|GNU Emacs: While GNU Emacs supports the UTF-16 encoding, it doesn't fully support the Unicode standard, since it doesn't fully support the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section below).}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

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nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

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nowrap {{rh}} | LE

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nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

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nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

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nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

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nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

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nowrap {{rh}} | mined

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nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

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nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

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nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

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nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

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nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

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nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

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nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE{{efn|SciTE can open files in UTF or one single-byte encoding specified in a configuration file.}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

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nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

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{{efn|name=TextPad_Unicode|TextPad can load and save UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, but cannot use or even preserve characters outside of the system encoding.{{Cite web|url=https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=4777|title=Community :: View topic - Unicode Conformance|website=forums.textpad.com}}}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

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nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

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{{efn|name=TseIso_8859_1|when choosing e.g. New Courier font}}

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{{efn|name=DosOemFont}}

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Plug{{nbh}}in

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nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

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{{efn|name=Vedit_Unicode|Vedit can convert UTF-8 and UTF-16 files to Windows character set and back. Characters not included in Windows charset can be preserved.}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | vi

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nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

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{{efn|name=vim_ebcdic|Vim supports EBCDIC when compiled on a system that uses the EBCDIC character set.}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

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{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/49891|title=Support EBCDIC encodings · Issue #49891 · microsoft/vscode|website=GitHub}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

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{{efn|name=XEmacs_Unicode|from version 21.5.29}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

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Right-to-left and bidirectional text

Support for Right-To-Left (RTL) texts is necessary for editing some languages like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish and the mixture of left to right (LTR) and RTL known as bi-directional (BiDi) support.

Depending on the algorithm used in the programs it might only render the bidirectional text correctly but may not be able to edit them. (e.g. Notepad++ 5.1.3 shows bidirectional texts correctly but cannot edit it and user should change the text direction to RTL to be able to edit RTL texts correctly.)

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|+ Right to left (RTL) & bidirectional (bidi) support

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! Right-to-left (RTL)

! Bi-directional (Bidi)

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nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

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nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

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nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

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nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

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nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

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nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

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nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | ed

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nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

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nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

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nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

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nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

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nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs

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{{efn|name=gnuEmacsBidi|GNU Emacs

(1) According to a comment in the source file where the bidi support is implemented (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/bidi.c accessed August 15, 2017), GNU Emacs doesn't fully conform to the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Unicode Annex #9, a.k.a. UAX #9) in the way it wraps the lines of a bidi paragraph: "we are violating paragraph 3.4 of UAX#9. which mandates that line breaking shall be done before reordering each screen line separately."

(2) According to the online GNU Emacs manual ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Bidirectional-Editing.html#Bidirectional-Editing section 22.19 Bidirectional Editing], accessed August 15, 2017), for the purpose of changing paragraph direction, "Paragraph boundaries are empty lines, i.e., lines consisting entirely of whitespace character". This contrasts with the otherwise ubiquitous convention of regarding the newline marker (LF on Unix derivatives, including macOS, and CR+LF on Windows) as the paragraph separator in plain text documents. However starting with version 26.0.50, the bidi paragraph separator can be customized.}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

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nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOE

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nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | LE

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nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

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nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

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nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

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nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

| {{dunno}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | mined

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=minedBidi|mined: supports bidi in cooperation with bidi terminal (mlterm, mintty); also supports "poor man's bidi mode"(automatic visual text order right-to-left input) in normal terminal}}

| {{ya}}
{{efn|name=minedBidi}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

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! RTL

! Bidi

nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

| {{na}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

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| {{Partial}}
{{efn|name="NotepadppBidi"|Notepadpp: Scintilla (Notepad++'s Engine) does not really support bidirectional editing ... Some bidirectional text support added in 4.1.0. https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/757/#01c9}}

nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

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nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

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nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

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nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

| {{dunno}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

| {{dunno}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

| {{dunno}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

| {{dunno}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | vi

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| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}
through terminal support

nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

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! RTL

! Bidi

Newline support

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|+ Support for newline characters in line endings

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! Windows (CR/LF)

! Unix-like systems (including macOS){{Cite web|url=https://superuser.com/questions/439440/did-mac-os-lion-switch-to-using-line-feeds-lf-n-for-line-breaks-instead-of|title=Did Mac OS Lion switch to using line feeds (LF '\n') for line breaks instead of carriage returns (CR '\r')?|website=Super User}} (LF)

! Classic Mac OS (CR)

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nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad

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nowrap {{rh}} | Alphatk

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Atom

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | BBEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Brackets

| {{ya}}

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| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Coda

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | ConTEXT

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Crimson Editor

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nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | ed

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Editra

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | EmEditor

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Geany

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | gedit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | GNU Emacs{{efn|name=gnuEmacsNewline|GNU Emacs: GNU Emacs doesn't regard the newline marker as a paragraph separator in bidi texts. See comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JED

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | jEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOE{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/docs/man.md#character-sets-and-utf-8|title=JOE - Joe's Own Editor|website=JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md|access-date=23 October 2015|quote=character sets must use LF (0x0A) or CR-LF (0x0D - 0x0A) as line terminators [...]. [...] character sets which use CR terminated lines (MACs) will not yet work.}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | JOVE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Kate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KEDIT

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo Edit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Komodo IDE

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | KWrite

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | LE

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Metapad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | MS-DOS Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | mined

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Nano

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | NEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Notepad++

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | nvi

| {{dunno}}

| {{ya}}

| {{dunno}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Pico

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PolyEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | PSPad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | RJ TextEd

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Sam

| {{dunno}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | SciTE

| {{ya}}

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| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | SlickEdit

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Smultron

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | SubEthaEdit

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | Sublime Text

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TED Notepad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextMate

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | TextPad

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | TextWrangler

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | The SemWare Editor

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | UltraEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | VEDIT

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | vi

| {{na}}

| {{ya}}

| {{na}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Vim

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | Visual Studio Code

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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nowrap {{rh}} | XEmacs

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

nowrap {{rh}} | XNEdit

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

| {{ya}}

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!

! Windows (CR/LF)

! Unix-like systems (including macOS) (LF)

! Classic Mac OS (CR)

See also

Notes

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References