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This article provides basic comparisons for common text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual products' articles. 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

List of text editors
Creator First public release Latest stable version Programming language used Cost (US$) Software license Open source
Acme Rob Pike 1993 Plan 9 and Inferno C Free LPL (OSI approved) Yes
AkelPad Alexey Kuznetsov, Alexander Shengalts 2003 4.4.6 C Free BSD license Yes
Alphatk Vince Darley 1999 8.3.3 $40 Proprietary, with BSD components No
Aquamacs David Reitter 2005 2.0 C and Elisp Free GPL Yes
BBEdit Rich Siegel 1992-04 9.3.1 $125, $49 educational Proprietary No
Bluefish Bluefish Development Team 1999 2.0.1 C Free GPL Yes
Caditor Caglow 2008 3.2.1 C# Free AFL Yes
Coda[dubious – discuss] Panic, Inc. 2007 1.6.2 $99 No
ConTEXT ConTEXT Project Ltd 1999 0.98.6 CodeGear Delphi Free BSD License Yes
Crimson Editor Ingyu Kang/ Emerald Editor Team 1999 3.72 C Free GPL Yes
Diakonos Pistos 2004 0.8.12 Ruby Free MIT Yes
e Alexander Stigsen 2005 1.0.30 $34.95 Proprietary No
DForD SourceCoding DForD Software 2010 2010.7 C++, Lua $149.95 Proprietary No
ed Ken Thompson 1970 unchanged from original C Free ? Yes
EditPlus Sangil Kim 1998 3.12 $35 Shareware No
EmEditor Emurasoft, Inc. 1997 10.0 $39.99 (1-user) Shareware No
epsilon Lugaru Software 1984 13.06 C $250 proprietary No
gedit GNU Project 2000 2.31.6 C Free GPL Yes
Geany Enrico Tröger 2005 0.19 C and GTK2 Free GPL Yes
GNU Emacs Richard Stallman 1984 23.2 C and Elisp Free GPL Yes
Gobby 0x539 dev group 2005 0.4.12 C++ Free GPL Yes
JED John E. Davis 1992 0.99-18 C Free GPL Yes
jEdit Slava Pestov 1998 (?) 4.3.2 Java Free GPL Yes
JFE Jens Altmann 2000 3.9 Free No
JOE Joseph Allen 1988 3.7 C Free GPL Yes
Kate KDE Project 2000-12 3.4 C++ Free GPL Yes
KEDIT Mansfield Software Group, Inc. 1983 1.6 $129 proprietary No
Komodo Edit Activestate open-sourced 2007 5.2.4 Python, JavaScript, XUL Free MPL, GPL, LGPL Yes
KWrite KDE Project 2000 4.4.5 C++ Free GPL Yes
LE Alexander V. Lukyanov 1997 1.14.0 C++ Free GPL Yes
Metapad Alexander Davidson 1999 3.51 C Free GPL Yes
MinEd Thomas Wolff 1992 2000.16 C Free GPL Yes
MS-DOS Editor Microsoft 1991 2.0.026 Bundled with MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows Proprietary No
Nano Chris Allegretta 1999 2.2.5 C Free GPL Yes
NEdit Mark Edel 1991 5.5 C Free GPL Yes
Notepad Microsoft 1985 6.0 Bundled with Microsoft Windows Proprietary No
Notepad++ Don Ho 2003-11-25 5.7 C++ Free GPL Yes
Notepad2 Florian Balmer 2004-04 4.1.24 C++ Free BSD license Yes
NoteTab Eric Fookes, Fookes Software 1995 6.20 CodeGear Delphi Free, $10 Standard, $20 Pro Proprietary No
nvi Keith Bostic ? 1.79 C Free BSD license Yes
Pico University of Washington ? 4.64 Free Proprietary No
PolyEdit PolySoft Solutions 1998 5.0 Preview Release $27.95 Shareware No
Programmer's Notepad Simon Steele 1998 2.1.4 C++ Free BSD license Yes
PSPad Jan Fiala 2002 4.5.4 CodeGear Delphi Free Proprietary No
Q10 (text editor) Baara Estudio ? 1.2.21 ? Free Proprietary No
RText Fifesoft 2003 1.1.0 Java Free GPL Yes
SciTE Neil Hodgson 1999-03 2.20 C++ Free HPND Yes
skEdit Sean Kelly, skti 2002 3.6.1 $24.95 for a Lifetime license Proprietary No
SlickEdit SlickEdit, Inc. 1988 14.0.2 C and Slick-C $299 Proprietary No
Smultron Peter Borg 2004 3.5.1 Objective-C Free Apache License Yes
SubEthaEdit TheCodingMonkeys 2003 3.5.2 (3294) $35 for commercial use Proprietary No
TED Notepad Juraj Simlovic 2001 5.3.1 Free Freeware No
TextEdit Apple Inc. 2001 1.4 Bundled with Mac OS X Proprietary Yes
TextMate MacroMates 2004-10-10 1.5.7 Objective-C++ €39 Proprietary, with MIT components No
TextPad Helios Software Solutions 1992 5.3.1 $30.00 (£16.50) Shareware No
TextWrangler Bare Bones Software ? 3.1 Free Proprietary No
The SemWare Editor Sammy Mitchell 1985-11 4.4 C and SAL $99 Proprietary No
UltraEdit IDM Computer Solutions 1994 16.10 $59.95 Proprietary No
VEDIT Ted Green, Greenview Data 1980 6.15.2 Assembly and C standard $89 , Pro64 $239 Proprietary No
Vim Bram Moolenaar 1991 7.3 C and VimL Free GPL - compatible Yes
XEmacs Lucid Inc. 1991 21.4.22 C and Elisp Free GPL Yes
Yi Don Stewart 2005 0.6.2.2 Haskell Free GPL Yes
Creator First public release Latest stable version Programming language used Cost (US$) Software license Open source

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 text editors

Text editor support for various operating systems
Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix OpenVMS
Acme Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Partial [1] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
ed Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
epsilon Yes Yes[2] Yes Yes Yes No
Geany Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes [3] Yes Yes Yes No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gobby Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
JOE Partial [4] Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Kate Partial [5] Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KEDIT Yes No Yes No No No
Komodo Edit Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
LE Partial [4] Yes Yes Yes Yes No
MinEd Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Nano Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
NEdit Partial [4] Yes [6] Yes Yes Yes Yes
ne No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Notepad++ Yes Partial [7] Partial [7] Partial [7] Partial [7] ?
nvi No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Pico Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RText Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SciTE Yes Yes [6] Yes Yes Yes No
SlickEdit Yes Yes [6] Yes No Yes No
UltraEdit Yes No Yes No No No
Vim Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yi Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix OpenVMS

Java-based text editors

Windows-only text editors

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Mac-only text editors

Natural language

Available languages for the UI
English German French Polish Korean Japanese Italian Dutch Portuguese Spanish Swedish Total
Acme Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 19
Alphatk Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Aquamacs Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
BBEdit Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes 26
Caditor Yes No Yes No ? No No No No Yes No 3
ConTEXT Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes Yes Yes Yes No 22
Crimson Editor Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
Diakonos Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
e Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ed No No No No No No No No No No No 0
EditPlus Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? 2
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No 7
epsilon Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
gedit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 82
Geany Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 21
GNU Emacs Yes No No No No No No No No No No 1
Gobby Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
JED Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
jEdit Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
JOE Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 50 fully / 18 mostly [7]
KEDIT Yes No No No No No No No No No No 1
Komodo Edit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
KWrite Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes 5
Metapad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 33 [8]
mined Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
MS-DOS Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
Nano Yes ? Yes ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? 4
NEdit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Notepad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 43
Notepad2 Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes 6
NoteTab Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
nvi Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Pico Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? 2
PolyEdit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Programmer's Notepad Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PSPad Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 36
Q10 (text editor) Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? 6
RText Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 17
SciTE Yes Yes Outdated (1.72) Yes ? Outdated (1.62) Yes Outdated (1.67) Outdated (1.63) Yes Yes 39 [9]
skEdit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
SlickEdit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Smultron Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes 13
SubEthaEdit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TED Notepad Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 18
TextMate Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
TextPad Yes Yes Yes Outdated (4.7.3) ? Yes Outdated (4.7.3) Outdated (4.7.3) Outdated (4.7.3) Outdated (4.7.3) No 9
TextWrangler Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
The SemWare Editor Yes No No No No No No No No No No 1
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No Yes No 7
VEDIT Yes No No No ? No No No No No No 1
Vim Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 25
XEmacs Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Yi Yes No No No No No No No No No No 1
English German French Polish Korean Japanese Italian Dutch Portuguese Spanish Swedish Total

Document interface

Text editor support for common document interfaces
Multiple instances Single document window splitting MDI: Overlappable windows MDI: Tabbed document interface MDI: Window splitting
Acme Yes Yes No Yes Yes
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes No Yes Yes No
Caditor Yes No No Yes No
ConTEXT Yes No Yes Yes No
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos Yes No No No No
e Yes No No Yes Yes
ed Yes No No No No
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes No No Yes No
gedit Yes Plugin [10] Yes Yes Plugin [11]
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Plugin [12] [13] Yes
Gobby ? ? ? ? ?
JED No Yes No No Yes
jEdit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
JOE Yes Yes No No[14] Yes
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
KEDIT No No Yes No No
Komodo Edit No Yes No Yes Yes
KWrite Yes No No No No
LE Yes No No No No
Metapad Yes No No No No
mined Yes No No [15] No No
MS-DOS Editor Yes Yes No No Yes
Nano Yes No No No No
NEdit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes No No No No
NoteTab Yes ? No Yes 2 windows
nvi Yes Yes No No No
Pico Yes No No No No
PolyEdit No No Yes Yes Yes
Programmer's Notepad Yes No Yes Yes No
PSPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Q10 (text editor) No No No No No
RText Yes No Yes Yes No
SciTE Yes No No Yes [16] No
skEdit Yes Yes No Yes No
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes No Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes No Yes No
TED Notepad ? ? ? ? ?
TextEdit ? ? Yes ? ?
TextMate No No Yes Yes No
TextPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes No No Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes [17] Yes [18] Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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 SDI and 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

Text editor support for basic editing features
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection
Acme Yes Yes No No Yes No
AkelPad Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Caditor No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Coda Yes Some [10] Yes Yes Yes ?
ConTEXT No Partial[19] Partial [20] Yes Yes Yes
Crimson Editor Instant/live (like Firefox) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos Yes [21] Yes No No Yes Yes
e Plugin[22] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ed No Yes No No No No
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Geany Plugin[23] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes [24] Plugin[25] Yes Yes Yes No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gobby ? ? ? ? ? ?
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Plugin[26] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JOE Plugin[27] Partial[28] No[29] Yes Yes Yes
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
KEDIT No Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Komodo Edit No Yes No Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
LE No Yes No[30] Yes Yes Yes
Metapad Partial[31] No Yes Yes Yes No
MinEd No Yes [32] Yes [32] Yes [33] No Yes
MS-DOS Editor No No No Yes No No
Nano Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection
NEdit Plugin[34] Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Notepad No No No No No No
Notepad++ Plugin, on-demand only[35] Limited[36] Yes Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 No Limited[36] Yes Yes Yes Yes
NoteTab Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
nvi No Yes No No Yes ?
Pico Yes No No No Yes ?
PolyEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Programmer's Notepad No Limited[36] Yes [37] Yes [37] Yes Yes
PSPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Q10 (text editor) ? ? ? ? ? ?
RText Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SciTE No Limited[36] No Yes Yes Yes
skEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [38]
TED Notepad No No No Yes Yes No
TextEdit Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
TextMate Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes
TextPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
UltraEdit Yes Limited[39] Yes Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Plugin[40] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes [41] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yi ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection

Programming features

Text editor support for programming features (see source code editor)
Syntax highlighting Function list Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.) 		Brace matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
Acme No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
AkelPad Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin No Plugin
Alphatk Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes ? ? Yes[42] Yes Yes Yes[42] No Yes[43]
Caditor Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes
ConTEXT Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Crimson Editor Yes No Partial [44] Yes Yes No No No Yes
Diakonos Yes ? Partial Yes Yes No No No No
e Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ed No No No No No No No No No
EditPlus Yes Yes[45] Partial [44] Yes Yes Yes[46] Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Plugin [47] Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes Yes Yes [48] Yes Yes Yes Partial No Yes
gedit Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Plugin No No Yes[49]
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gobby ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin
JOE Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? No No Yes
Kate Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin
KEDIT Yes ? Macro Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Komodo Edit Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KWrite Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
LE Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No[50]
Metapad No No No No Yes No No No No
mined Yes [51] ? Yes Yes Yes No No No No
MS-DOS Editor No No No No No No No No No
Nano Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No
Syntax highlighting Function list Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.) 		Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
NEdit Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Plugin No No Yes
Notepad No No No No No No No No No
Notepad++ Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes [52] Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No
NoteTab Partial [53] ? ? No ? Yes ? ? Yes
nvi No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
Pico No No No No No No No No No
PolyEdit Yes No No No No No No No No
Programmer's Notepad Yes Yes Yes Yes [54] Yes [54] Yes Yes [54] Yes Yes [54]
PSPad Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Q10 (text editor) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RText Yes plugin No Yes Yes No No No No
SciTE Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
skEdit Yes ? No Yes Yes Yes No No No
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes No No Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TED Notepad No ? ? No Yes Yes No No No
TextEdit No No No No No No No No No
TextMate Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes [55] Yes Yes No
TextPad Yes No Plugin [56] Yes Yes No No No Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes ? Yes Yes No No No Plugin [57]
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Plugin [58] Yes Yes Yes [59] Partial [60] No Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [61] No No Yes
Vim Yes Plugin [62] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yi Yes [63] No Yes [64] Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes
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. (Needs clarification?)
  • 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

Text editor support for other programming features
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro language Collaborative editing Large file support Multi-line regex support[65]
Acme Yes No Yes No ? Yes
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes No memory Plugin
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes [66] No ? ?
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes ? yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes [67] No memory [68] Yes
Bluefish No Yes ? Yes ? Yes
Caditor ? ? ? ? ? ?
ConTEXT No Yes Yes No memory [69] No
Crimson Editor No Yes Yes No ? no No
Diakonos No No Yes No ? Yes
e Yes Yes No[70] Yes ? yes Yes
ed No No No No ? ?
EditPlus ? Yes Yes No memory Yes
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Geany Yes ? ? ? ? ?
gedit Yes Yes Yes [71] Plugin ? No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes No (128 MB) [72] Yes
Gobby ? ? ? Yes ? ?
JED Yes No Yes No memory [73] ?
jEdit Yes No Yes No No (heap) [74] Yes
JOE Yes No Yes No ? yes ?
Kate Yes Yes No No No [75] No
KEDIT Yes Yes Yes No ? yes Yes
Komodo Edit ? ? Yes No ? Yes
KWrite No No No No No [75] No
LE Yes No No No[76] ? no Yes
Metapad Yes Yes No No memory [77] ?
mined ? ? ? ? ? Yes
MS-DOS Editor No No No No No (~300 KB) No
Nano Yes No No No ? ?
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro language Collaborative editing Large file support Multi-line regex support[65]
NEdit Yes Yes Yes No ? no Yes
Notepad Yes Yes No No memory No
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes with plugin No [78] No
Notepad2 No No No No memory [79] No
NoteTab ? ? Yes ? ? no Yes[80]
nvi Yes No No ? ? ?
Pico ? ? ? No ? ?
PolyEdit Yes Yes No No ? yes Yes
Programmer's Notepad No No Yes [71] No slow [81] No
PSPad Yes Yes Yes No memory [82] with plugin
Q10 (text editor) ? ? ? ? ? ?
RText No No Yes No ? no Yes
SciTE ? ? Yes No ? No
skEdit Yes Yes No Yes [83] ? ?
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes No 2 GB Yes
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes
TED Notepad Yes Yes No No ? no ?
TextEdit Yes Yes No No ? ?
TextMate Yes Yes Yes No ? no Yes
TextPad No Yes Yes No memory [84] Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes No memory [68] Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes No 2 GB No
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes No (256M) [72] Yes
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro language Collaborative editing Large file support Multi-line regex support[65]

Large file support:

Yes = Larger than 4GB (LFS)    2GB = Up to 2GB (or 4GB), not limited by memory
memory = Limited by available memory No (64k) = 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.[85]

Key bindings

Text editor support for key bindings.
Dynamically customizable Mac OS X Vi Emacs Pico
Acme No No No No No
AkelPad Yes ? ? ? ?
Alphatk ? ? ? ? ?
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
BBEdit[86][87] Yes Yes ? Yes ?
Bluefish Yes ? ? ? ?
Caditor ? ? ? ? ?
ConTEXT ? ? ? ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ? ? ? ?
Diakonos Yes ? ? ? ?
e ? ? ? ? ?
ed No No No No No
EditPlus Yes ? ? ? ?
EmEditor Yes ? ? ? ?
Geany Yes ? ? ? ?
gedit Yes[88] ? ? ? ?
GNU Emacs Yes No Yes Yes No
Gobby ? ? ? ? ?
JED Yes ? Yes Yes ?
jEdit Yes ? ? ? ?
JOE ? ? ? Yes Yes
LE Yes ? No ? ?
Kate Yes ? Yes [89] ? ?
KEDIT Yes No No No No
Komodo Edit Yes ? Yes ? ?
KWrite Yes ? ? ? ?
Metapad ? ? ? ? ?
mined ? ? ? Yes ?
MS-DOS Editor No No No No No
Nano Yes ? ? ? Yes
NEdit Yes ? ? ? ?
Notepad No No No No No
Notepad++ Yes ? ? ? ?
Notepad2 No No No No No
NoteTab ? ? ? ? ?
nvi ? ? Yes ? ?
Pico ? ? No No Yes
PolyEdit ? ? ? ? ?
Programmer's Notepad Yes ? ? ? ?
PSPad Yes ? ? ? ?
Q10 (text editor) ? ? ? ? ?
RText Yes ? ? ? ?
SciTE Partial[90] ? No No No
skEdit ? ? ? ? ?
SlickEdit ? ? Yes Yes ?
Smultron ? ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit ? ? ? ? ?
TED Notepad ? ? ? ? ?
TextEdit No Yes No No No
TextMate ? Yes No No No
TextPad Yes ? ? ? ?
TextWrangler[86][91] Yes Yes No Yes No
The SemWare Editor Yes ? ? ? ?
UltraEdit Yes No ? ? ?
VEDIT Yes No No [92] No No
Vim Yes ? Yes [93] Partial [94] ?
XEmacs Yes No Yes Yes ?
YI Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Dynamically customizable Standard Mac OS X Vi Emacs Pico

Protocol support

Text editor support for remote file editing over Internet Protocols
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
Acme Yes Yes Yes Yes
AkelPad No No No No
Alphatk Yes No No Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes Yes [95]
BBEdit Yes No Yes No
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes
Caditor Yes No No No
Coda FTP, SFTP, FTP+SSL ? Yes Yes
ConTEXT No ? No ?
Crimson Editor Yes No No No
Diakonos No No No No
e Yes No No No
ed No No No No
EditPlus Yes No No No
EmEditor No No No No
Geany No No No No
gedit Yes Yes Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gobby ? ? ? ?
JED No No No No
jEdit Plugin[96] Yes [97] No Plugin.
JOE No No No No
LE No No No No
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes
KEDIT No No No No
Komodo IDE SFTP No Yes No
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes
Metapad No No No No
mined ? ? ? ?
MS-DOS Editor No No No No
Nano No No Yes No
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
NEdit No No No No
Notepad No No No No
Notepad++ Plugin for FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP No No No
Notepad2 No No No No
NoteTab No ? No ?
nvi No No No No
Pico No No No No
PolyEdit No No No No
Programmer's Notepad No No No No
PSPad Yes No No No
Q10 (text editor) ? ? ? ?
RText No No No No
SciTE No No No No
skEdit Yes No Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes No
Smultron Yes ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit Yes No No No
TED Notepad No ? No ?
TextEdit No No No No
TextMate Yes [95] No No No
TextPad No No No No
TextWrangler FTP,SFTP No Yes No
The SemWare Editor No No No No
UltraEdit Yes No Yes No
VEDIT Yes No No No
Vim Plugin [98] Plugin [98] Plugin [98] Plugin [98]
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes ?
Yi No No No No
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.

Text editor support for some of the most common character encodings
ASCII ISO-8859 DOS (OEM) EBCDIC UTF-8 UTF-16
Acme Yes ? ? ? Yes No
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Alphatk Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes ? ? ? Yes ?
Caditor ? ? ? ? ? ?
ConTEXT Yes Yes Partial [99] No No No
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Partial [99] No Partial No
Diakonos Yes ? ? ? Yes ?
e Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
ed Yes ? ? ? Yes No
EditPlus Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gobby ? ? ? ? ? ?
JED Yes Yes Yes ? Yes No
jEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JOE Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
LE Yes ? ? ? Yes No
Kate Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes
KEDIT Yes Yes Partial [99] No No No
Komodo Edit ? ? ? ? Yes ?
KWrite Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
Metapad Yes Yes Partial [99] No Yes Yes
mined Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
MS-DOS Editor Yes ? Yes ? ? ?
Nano Yes ? ? ? Yes No
ASCII ISO-8859 DOS (OEM) EBCDIC UTF-8 UTF-16
NEdit Yes ? ? ? No No
Notepad Yes Yes Partial [99] No Yes Yes
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes plugin Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
NoteTab Yes ? Yes Yes Partial [100] Partial [100]
nvi Yes ? ? ? Yes [101] No
Pico Yes No No No No No
PolyEdit Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
Programmer's Notepad Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
PSPad Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
Q10 (text editor) ? ? ? ? ? ?
RText Yes Yes Yes Yes[102] Yes Yes
SciTE[103] Yes No No No Yes Yes
skEdit Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
Smultron Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
TED Notepad Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes
TextEdit Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes
TextMate Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes
TextPad Yes ? ? ? Partial [104] Partial [104]
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes [105] Partial [99] plugin No No
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial Partial [106]
Vim Yes Yes Yes No [107] Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes ? ? Yes [108] Yes
Yi Yes ? ? ? Yes No
ASCII ISO-8859 DOS (OEM) EBCDIC UTF-8 UTF-16

Right-to-left and bidirectional text

Support for right to left (RTL) texts (like Hebrew, Arabic, Persian) and the mixture of left to right (LTR) and RTL known as bidirectional (bidi) support.

Depending on the algorithm used in the programs they 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 you cannot edit it and you should change the window direction to be able to edit right to left texts correctly.)

Right to left (RTL) & bidirectional (bidi) support
Right-to-left (RTL) Bi-directional (Bidi)
Acme No No
AkelPad No No
Alphatk ? ?
Aquamacs ? ?
BBEdit No No
Bluefish ? ?
Caditor ? ?
ConTEXT ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ?
Diakonos ? ?
e ? ?
ed ? ?
EditPlus ? ?
EmEditor No No
Geany ? ?
gedit Yes Yes
GNU Emacs No No
Gobby ? ?
JED ? ?
jEdit ? ?
JOE ? ?
LE ? ?
Kate ? ?
KEDIT No No
Komodo Edit ? ?
KWrite ? ?
Metapad ? ?
MS-DOS Editor ? ?
mined ? ?
Nano ? ?
RTL Bidi
NEdit ? ?
Notepad Yes Yes
Notepad++ Yes No
Notepad2 No No
NoteTab ? ?
nvi ? ?
Pico ? ?
PolyEdit ? ?
Programmer's Notepad ? ?
PSPad ? ?
Q10 ? ?
RText ? ?
SciTE ? ?
skEdit ? ?
SlickEdit ? ?
Smultron ? ?
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes
TED Notepad ? ?
TextEdit ? ?
TextMate ? ?
TextPad ? ?
TextWrangler ? ?
The SemWare Editor No No
UltraEdit No No
VEDIT ? ?
Vim Yes No
XEmacs ? ?
Yi ? ?
RTL Bidi

Newline support

Text editor support for newline character sequence support
Windows (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)
Acme No Yes No
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes
Aquamacs Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes
Caditor Yes Yes Yes
ConTEXT Yes Yes Yes
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes
Diakonos ? Yes ?
e Yes Yes Yes
ed No Yes No
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes
Gobby Yes Yes Yes
JED Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes Yes
JOE Yes Yes ?
LE Yes Yes No
Kate Yes Yes Yes
KEDIT Yes Yes Yes
Komodo Edit Yes Yes ?
KWrite Yes Yes Yes
Metapad Yes Yes ?
MS-DOS Editor Yes Yes Yes
mined Yes Yes Yes
Nano Yes Yes Yes
Windows (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)
NEdit Yes Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes
Notepad2 Yes Yes Yes
NoteTab Yes Yes Yes
nvi ? Yes ?
Pico ? Yes ?
PolyEdit Yes Yes Yes
Programmer's Notepad Yes Yes Yes
PSPad Yes Yes Yes
Q10 (text editor) Yes Yes Yes
RText Yes Yes Yes
SciTE Yes Yes Yes
skEdit Yes Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes Yes
TED Notepad Yes Yes Yes
TextEdit Yes Yes Yes
TextMate Yes Yes Yes
TextPad Yes Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes
Yi ? Yes ?
Windows (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)

See also

References

  1. ^ Bluefish runs on Windows using Cygwin; native win32 port in progress.
  2. ^ Epsilon version 13
  3. ^ GEdit, when installed from MacPorts, runs in X11 and, therefore, does not have a native look and feel. However, precompiled native Mac OS X binaries for GEdit may be downloaded from the GEdit project page, or from the GEdit FTP download server.
  4. ^ a b c Requires Cygwin to run on Windows.
  5. ^ Does Kate/KWrite run on windows?Kate and KWrite run on Windows using cygwin.
  6. ^ a b c gedit, NEdit, SciTE, and SlickEdit run in the X11 window environment, and therefore do not use the native Aqua look-and-feel when running on Mac OS X.
  7. ^ a b c d Notepad++ runs on Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac OS X using Wine. [1].
  8. ^ a b Notepad, Notepad++, and Notepad2 run flawlessly on Linux and Mac OS X, via Wine. See Notepad++ on the WineHQ Application Database for more information.
  9. ^ The SemWare Editor (TSE): Linux beta version in progress.
  10. ^ gedit supports single document window splitting via plugins. [2].
  11. ^ gedit supports multiple document window splitting via plugins. [3].
  12. ^ GNU Emacs can use a tabbed document interface in a non OS-native way, using the tabbar plug-in.
  13. ^ GNU Emacs can support a tabbed document interface modelled after GNU Screen using the elscreen package.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ mined supports Copy/Paste between multiple documents in separate windows, when these documents are in separate terminal windows
  16. ^ SciTE has a maximum number of buffers, which can only be set as high as 100.
  17. ^ Vim Provided GVim is used.
  18. ^ Vim version 7 supports a tabbed document interface. Earlier versions can emulate tabs through scripts, for example TabBar.
  19. ^ ConTEXT does not support regular expression backreferences in its search and replace function.[4]
  20. ^ ConTEXT only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16.
  21. ^ Diakonos supports spell checking by calling the external program aspell.
  22. ^ e supports spell checking via a bundle command available at the e Bundles repository.
  23. ^ Geany supports spell checking via a plugin, but not for Windows at the moment.
  24. ^ gedit supports spell checking via a plugin, which is distributed with gedit.
  25. ^ gedit supports Regex-based find & replace via plugins ([5].
  26. ^ jEdit supports spell checking via an external plugin.
  27. ^ JOE supports spell checking via the ispell or aspell external plugins.
  28. ^ JOE uses a non-standard regular expression syntax.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ LE can pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility
  31. ^ Metapad spell checking by calling external program Aspell.
  32. ^ a b mined supports multiple lines in search and replacement expressions. Cite error: The named reference "minedEncoding" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  33. ^ mined supports new-line conversion via a command-line option. Files with mixed newline types can be edited transparently; different kinds of new-line have different visual indications.
  34. ^ NEdit supports spell checking via a plugin
  35. ^ Notepad++ supports spell checking via the aspell plugin. Spell checking can only be done on-demand, as opposed to instantly by underlining misspelled words.
  36. ^ a b c d Scintilla-based editors such as SciTE, Programmer's Notepad, Notepad2 and Notepad++ do not support alternation (|) in regular expressions. Cite error: The named reference "Scintilla_regex" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  37. ^ a b Programmer's Notepad 2.
  38. ^ SubEthaEdit supports advanced block editing, including multi-line typing and non-contiguous block selections.
  39. ^ UltraEdit uses the Boost C++ regex library. While Boost supports backreferences past \9 with \g{10}, UltraEdit has not yet implemented this feature.
  40. ^ VEDIT spell checking: Macro package for integrating Aspell can be downloaded here. There is also Scribe spelling checker which has been written entirely in Vedit macro language.
  41. ^ Vim version 7 supports spell checking natively. Earlier versions require a script shown here.
  42. ^ a b bluefish: In the 1.1 development series only.
  43. ^ bluefish: Configurable via the outputbox feature.
  44. ^ a b With external tool OpenCTags
  45. ^ editplus: Opens in a window, not really integrated.
  46. ^ editplus: Enabled by editing the corresponding .acp file.
  47. ^ EmEditor Professional supports Auto Complete via plugins (32-bit or 64-bit).
  48. ^ Geany uses its own tags file format, not compatible with ctags, see the manual.
  49. ^ gedit: Compiler integration: Functionality in plugins installed with gedit.
  50. ^ make can be launched from the LE text editor, but the output is not captured
  51. ^ mined: Syntax highlighting: HTML/XML, Javascript, JSP.
  52. ^ Notepad++: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
  53. ^ NoteTab: Syntax highlighting only for html documents and NoteTab clip/scripts.
  54. ^ a b c d Programmer's Notepad 2
  55. ^ TextMate: Auto complete: Supported language bundles
  56. ^ Textpad uses an add-on (http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/)
  57. ^ TextWrangler can integrate with a compiler if you write a shell script that takes flag input of the code and compiles it. You place this in ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Unix Support/Unix Filters/. It should show in the #! menu.
  58. ^ TSE uses a macro http://www.semware.com/html/tseprofiles.php
  59. ^ The Semware Editor: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
  60. ^ The Semware Editor: Text folding: Compressed view possible.
  61. ^ Vedit: Auto complete: Template editing, plus 3rd party macro for expanding symbols from tags database.
  62. ^ Vim has a popular TagList plugin that provides a function list.
  63. ^ unlike most editors that use regexps or ad hoc parsing, Yi" uses a algorithm of incremental parsing to dynamically update the syntax highlighiting
  64. ^ currently supports only haskell with hasktags -c
  65. ^ a b c Multi-line regex support Support for expressions spanning several lines (e.g. "\n\n(.+)\n\n")
  66. ^ Alpha Macro support via AppleScript, Tcl or text factories.
  67. ^ BBEdit Macro support via AppleScript, Perl, Python, shell scripts or text factories.
  68. ^ a b BBEdit and TextWrangler are technically capable of any size file, but limited practically by RAM and OS X limitation to files ≤ 384mb. Cf. BBEdit FAQ Entry 36.
  69. ^ ConTEXT claims Large File Support but load time is proportional to file size and a 1GB file gave an Out of Memory error.
  70. ^ e Macro support via Cygwin and languages like Ruby, Python, or Perl.
  71. ^ a b Cssed Macro support via Python.
  72. ^ a b EmacsFileSizeLimit
  73. ^ JED Editor
  74. ^ jEdit: Limited by Java heap size. jedit-users forum
  75. ^ a b kwrite-devel, Large Files open slowly due to futile Syntax-Highlighting
  76. ^ LE text editor locks the file and warns if someone else has changed the file
  77. ^ metapad FAQ, Loading Large Files
  78. ^ Question Defense, Windows: File Is To Big To Be Opened By NotePad++, Use Wordpad As Alternative
  79. ^ Notepad2 -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  80. ^ NoteTab: Standard and Pro versions only.
  81. ^ Programmer's Notepad LFS, but not optimized. Editing is too slow to be useful.
  82. ^ PSPad Forum
  83. ^ skEdit Macro support via SCM plugins.
  84. ^ mozillaZine: Edit large mbox files
  85. ^ Comparison of Windows Text Editors for Large Files: Text editors for large files
  86. ^ a b Bare Bones Software | BBEdit Comparison Chart
  87. ^ Bare Bones Software | Features (BBEdit)
  88. ^ It is possible to customize all Gedit shortcuts because it is Gtk based.
  89. ^ Kate supports an optional VI Input Mode.
  90. ^ In SciTE, custom keystrokes may be assigned to Lua scripts, external programs or lexers (highlighters).
  91. ^ Bare Bones Software | Features (TextWrangler
  92. ^ Vedit: Old Unix and QNX versions could emulate Vi 100%. Windows version doesn't come with vi emulation.
  93. ^ Vim emulates vi keys fully when in 'compatible' mode
  94. ^ Vim With a script such as Vimacs
  95. ^ a b Aquamacs Supported via a Mac OS X mounted volume.
  96. ^ jEdit FTP and SFTP are supported via the FTP plugin.
  97. ^ jEdit: "HTTP is supported natively"
  98. ^ a b c d Vim Supported via netrw plugin distributed in the standard Vim installation.
  99. ^ a b c d e f when choosing e.g. Terminal font
  100. ^ a b Although NoteTab is not a native Unicode editor, you can open, edit, convert, and save such files reliably as long as all the text fits within a single ANSI code page supported by Windows.
  101. ^ nvi Gentoo
  102. ^ RText supports EBCDIC n z/OS and anywhere with a JVM that supports it
  103. ^ SciTE can open files in UTF or one single-byte encoding specified in a configuration file.
  104. ^ a b TextPad can load and save UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, but cannot use or even preserve characters outside of the system encoding. [6]
  105. ^ when choosing e.g. New Courier font
  106. ^ Vedit can convert UTF-16 files to Windows character set and back.
  107. ^ Vim supports EBCDIC when compiled on a system that uses the EBCDIC character set.
  108. ^ from version 21.5.29
  • "GNU Emacs manual". GNU Emacs Manual 14th edition. Retrieved March 11, 2005. "The Emacs Editor"
  • Quick reference card for TextPad
  • TED Notepad Manual
  • BBEdit 8.6 User Manual
  • EmEditor 10.0 User Manual
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