List of text editors

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Text editors , listed by operating system.

A list of integrated development environments , which also have a text editor, can be found under List of integrated development environments . There is also a list of word processing programs .

Cross-platform

Unix

Unix command line editors

  • ed - the classic UNIX line editor
  • ex - line editor, the extension of ed
  • vi - the standard screen editor under UNIX, own operation, based on ex
  • Joe - common, simple Unix text editor, controls similar to WordStar
  • Nano - pico derivative, very simple and easy to use
  • MCedit - Midnight Commander file browser editor

Unix editors with GUI

  • gedit - sophisticated editor of the Gnome environment for programming, META documents, etc.
  • Kate - sophisticated editor from KDE Plasma for programming, META documents, etc.
  • KWrite - common text editor of earlier KDE versions
  • Leafpad - standard at LXDE
  • Mousepad - standard at Xfce

macOS

(The Unix command line editors and editors for X11 also run here )

Windows

DOS

  • E (PC DOS 6.1 to 2000) - a derivative of the OS / 2 System Editor
  • E (SemWare Editor Pro or Turbo SemWare Editor aka TSE Pro / DOS)
  • MS-DOS editor (MS-DOS version 5.0 or higher , as an installed DOS program also part of NT-based Windows systems , PC DOS 5.x) - independent editor and programming surface for QBasic (called with the parameter / EDCOM)
  • EDITOR (DR DOS / Novell DOS / OpenDOS)
  • EDLIN (MS-DOS 1 to 5.0 and PC DOS 1 to ???, as an installed DOS program also part of Windows NT -based Windows versions) - line-oriented editor
  • Q (SemWare Quick Editor aka QEDIT)

Mobile operating systems

Text editors with syntax highlighting for mobile use.

Android

  • Quoda
  • VimTouch

iOS

Other systems

Collaborative editors

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