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The following is a list of notable [[text editor]]s.

== Graphical and text user interface ==
The following editors can either be used with a [[graphical user interface]] or a [[text user interface]].

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name
! Description
! License
|-
| [[Elvis (text editor)|Elvis]]
| A vi/ex clone with additional commands and features.
| {{open source|[[Artistic License|ClArtistic]]}}
|-
| [[Extensible Versatile Editor|Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE)]]
| Default under [[OpenVMS]].
| {{dunno}}
|-
| [[Emacs|GNU Emacs]]<ref>Cameron, D., Rosenblatt, B., Raymond, E., & Raymond, E. S. (1996). Learning GNU Emacs. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref>Glickstein, B. (1997). Writing GNU Emacs Extensions: Editor Customizations and Creations with Lisp. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref>Halme, H., & Heinänen, J. (1988). GNU Emacs as a dynamically extensible programming environment. Software: Practice and Experience, 18(10), 999-1009.</ref><ref>Schoonover, M. A., & Schoonover, S. (1991). GNU Emacs: UNIX text editing and programming. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc.</ref><ref>Cameron, D., Elliott, J., Loy, M., Raymond, E. S., & Rosenblatt, B. (2005). Learning GNU Emacs. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref>/[[XEmacs]]<ref>Stallman, R., & Goyal, R. (1994). Getting Started With XEmacs. One of a complete set of manuals for XEmacs, all available at {{URL|http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/index. html}}.</ref><ref>Ayers, L. (1997). A Comparison of Xemacs and GNU emacs. Linux Journal, 1997, 4.</ref>
| Two long-existing forks of the popular [[Emacs]] programmer's editor. Emacs and [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] are the dominant text editors on [[Unix-like]] [[operating system]]s, and have inspired the [[editor war]]s.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]] / [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Language-Sensitive Editor|Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE)]]
| Programmer's Editor for [[OpenVMS]] implemented using [[Text Processing Utility|TPU]].
| {{dunno}}
|-
| [[Textadept]]
| A modular, cross-platform editor written in [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]], using [[Scintilla (software)|Scintilla]].<ref>{{Cite web| title = Textadept| access-date = 2014-08-14| url = http://foicica.com/textadept/}}</ref>
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[Vile (text editor)|vile (vi like Emacs)]]
| A vi work-alike which retains the vi command-set while adding new features: multiple windows and buffers, infinite undo, colorization, scriptable expansion capabilities, etc.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]}}
|-
| [[Vim (text editor)|vim]]<ref name="vi1">Robbins, A., Hannah, E., & Lamb, L. (2008). Learning the vi and Vim Editors. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref name="vi2">Robbins, A. (2011). Vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref>Schulz, K. (2007). Hacking Vim: a cookbook to get the most out of the latest Vim editor. Packt Publishing Ltd.</ref><ref name="vim">Neil, D. (2015). Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought. Pragmatic Bookshelf.</ref> 
| A clone based on the ideas of the [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] editor and designed for use both from a [[command line interface]] and in a [[graphical user interface]].
| {{open source|Vim}}
|}

== Graphical user interface ==
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name
! Description
! License
|-
| [[Acme (Plan 9)|Acme]]
|  A User Interface for Programmers by [[Rob Pike]].
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[Alphatk]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Apache OpenOffice Writer]]
| Word processor and text editor of the [[Apache OpenOffice|Apache OpenOffice Suite]], based on [[StarOffice|StarOffice's]] suite.
| {{open source|[[Apache License|Apache-2.0]]}}
|-
| [[Arachnophilia]]
|A [[source code editor]] which is successor to another HTML editor, WebThing.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[Atom (text editor)|Atom]]
| A modular, general-purpose editor built using [[HTML]], [[CSS]] and [[JavaScript]] on top of [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]] and [[Node.js]].
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[BBEdit]]
|A [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] [[text editor]] originally developed for [[Macintosh]] [[System 6|System Software 6]]
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Bluefish_(software)|Bluefish]]
| A source code editor with web development features.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Brackets (text editor)|Brackets]]
| A modular, web-oriented editor built using [[HTML]], [[CSS]] and [[JavaScript]] on top of the [[Chromium Embedded Framework]].
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[CodeWright]]
|An editing system or source code editor which can be configured to work with other [[integrated development environment]] (IDE) systems.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Crimson Editor]]
|A [[text editor]] which is typically used as a [[source code editor]] and [[HTML editor]].
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[CygnusEd]] (CED)
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[E (PC DOS)|E Text Editor]]
| Default under [[IBM]] [[OS/2]] versions 2-4{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Eddie (text editor)|Eddie]]
| An editor originally made for [[BeOS]] and later ported to [[Linux]] and [[macOS]].
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[EmEditor]]
|extensible [[Commercial software|commercial]] [[text editor]] which supports [[Unicode]], [[syntax highlighting]] and vertical selection editing, editing of large files (up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion [[Line (text file)|lines]])
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Epsilon text editor|Epsilon]]
|A [[programmer]]'s [[text editor]] modelled after [[Emacs]].
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[FeatherPad]]
| A lightweight editor based on [[Qt (software)|Qt]].
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Geany]]
| A fast and lightweight editor – [[Integrated development environment|IDE]], uses [[GTK]]+.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[gedit]]
| Former default under [[GNOME]] until GNOME 42.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/|title=Apps/Gedit - GNOME Wiki!|website=projects.gnome.org|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref>
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[GNOME Text Editor]]
| Default under [[GNOME]] from GNOME 42 onwards<ref name="42release">{{Cite web |title=GNOME Release Notes |url=https://release.gnome.org/42/ |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=GNOME.org}}</ref>
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Cubic IDE|GoldED]] (text editor of [[Cubic IDE]])
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[HxD]]
| An editor for huge files, working with both binary data and texts.
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[iA Writer]]
| A multi-platform [[Markdown]] text editor with writing focused feature set
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[jEdit]]
| A free cross-platform programmer's editor written in [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[GNU General Public License|GPL]] licensed.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[JOVE]]
| Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
| {{open source|JOVE}}
|-
| [[Kate (text editor)|Kate]]
| A basic text editor for the [[KDE]] desktop.
| {{open source|[[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]], [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]}}
|-
| [[XEDIT|Kedit]]
| An editor with commands and [[Rexx]] macros similar to IBM [[XEDIT]].
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Kile]]
| A user friendly [[TeX]]/[[LaTeX]] editor.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Komodo Edit]]
|
| {{open source|[[Mozilla Public License|MPL-1.1]]}}
|-
| [[KWrite]]
| A default editor on [[KDE]].
| {{open source|[[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]}}
|-
| [[Lapis (text editor)|Lapis]]
| An experimental [[text editor]] allowing [[Simultaneous editing|multiple simultaneous edits]] of text in a multiple [[Selection (user interface)|selection]] from a few [[Programming by example|examples provided by the user]].
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0]]}}
|-
| [[Leafpad]]
| Default under [[LXDE]].<ref>[http://lxde.org/lxde "Leafpad"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014105420/http://lxde.org/lxde |date=2008-10-14}}</ref>
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Leo (text editor)|Leo]]
| A text editor that features outlines with clones as its central tool of organization and navigation.
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[LibreOffice Writer]]
| Word processor and text editor of the [[LibreOffice|LibreOffice Suite]], based on [[StarOffice|StarOffice's]] suite.
| {{open source|[[Mozilla Public License|MPL-2.0]]}}
|-
| [[Light Table (software)|Light Table]]
| A text editor and [[Integrated Development Environment|IDE]] with real-time, inline expression evaluation. Intended mainly for dynamic languages such as [[Clojure]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]] and [[JavaScript]], and for web development.
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]] / [[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-only]]}}
|-
| [[mcedit]]
| A text editor provided with [[Midnight Commander]].
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Metapad]]
| Windows Notepad replacement, [[GNU General Public License|GPL]] licensed.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[MicroEMACS]]
| JASSPA MicroEMACS
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Mousepad (software)|Mousepad]]
| The default under [[Xfce]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/start|title = Apps:mousepad:start &#91;Xfce Docs&#93;}}</ref>
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Multi-Edit]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[NEdit]] – "Nirvana Editor"
|
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Microsoft Notepad|Notepad]]
| Default under [[Microsoft Windows]].
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Notepad++]]
| A tabbed text editor.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Pe (text editor)|Pe]]
| A text editor for BeOS.
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[pluma (text editor)|pluma]]
| The default text editor of the [[MATE (software)|MATE]] desktop environment for Linux.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[PolyEdit]]
| Proprietary word processor and text editor.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Programmer's File Editor]] (PFE)
|
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[PSPad]]
| An editor for Microsoft Windows with various programming environments.
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[RJ TextEd]]
|
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[Sam (text editor)|Sam]]
|
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[SciTE]]
| Cross-platform, multi-user, multi-codepage, multi-language syntax highlighting, area selector, RE find/replace, and very customisable, allowing different font configurations for each syntactic group, user-defined menus and abbreviation expansion.
| {{open source|[[Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer|HPND]]}}
|-
| [[SimpleText]]
| Default under [[Classic Mac OS]] from version 7.5.<ref>http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/0307163ASYS75UPG.pdf {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[SlickEdit]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Smultron]]
| A macOS text editor.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[SubEthaEdit]]<br/>(formerly named Hydra)
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Sublime Text]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[TeachText]]
| Default under Classic Mac OS versions prior to 7.5.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://support.apple.com/kb/TA30234|title=System 2.0 (4.1/5.5) 800K Disk Contents (9/93)|website=support.apple.com|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref>
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[TED Notepad]]
|
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[Tex-Edit Plus]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[TextPad]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[TeXnicCenter]]
|
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL]]}}
|-
| [[TeXShop]]
| [[TeX]]/[[LaTeX]] editor and previewer.<ref>Mittelbach, F., Goossens, M., Braams, J., Carlisle, D., & Rowley, C. (2004). The LATEX companion. Addison-Wesley Professional.</ref><ref>Lamport, L. (1994). LATEX: a document preparation system: user's guide and reference manual. Addison-wesley.</ref><ref>Hoenig, A. (1998). TeX unbound: LaTeX & TeX strategies for fonts, graphics, & more. Oxford University Press, USA.</ref><ref>Syropoulos, A., Tsolomitis, A., & Sofroniou, N. (2007). Digital typography using LATEX. Springer Science & Business Media.</ref>
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0]]}}
|-
| [[TextEdit]]
| Default under [[macOS]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2523|title=Mac Basics: TextEdit|website=apple.com|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref> [[NeXTSTEP]]{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}, and [[GNUstep]].{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
| {{open source|[[BSD licenses|BSD-3-Clause]]}}
|-
| [[TextMate]]
|
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[TextWrangler]]
| Mac-only editor by [[Bare Bones Software]], sunsetted. Final version released 09/20/2016,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.macprices.net/2017/03/06/so-long-textwrangler-hello-bbedit-the-book-mystique-extra|title=So Long Textwrangler, Hello BBEdit|author=Charles Moore|date=6 March 2017|website=macprices.net|access-date=28 August 2019}}</ref> replaced by free tier of [BBEdit].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler|title=TextWrangler|website=barebones.com|access-date=28 August 2019}}</ref>
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[The Hessling Editor]]
|
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[The SemWare Editor]] (TSE)<br/>(formerly named QEdit).
|
| {{free|[[Freeware]]}}
|-
| [[UltraEdit]]
| Text and source code editor with [[syntax highlighting]], code folding, FTP, etc., handles multi-gigabyte files.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Ulysses (text editor)|Ulysses]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[VEDIT]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Visual Studio Code]]<ref>Del Sole, A. (2018). Visual Studio Code Distilled: Evolved Code Editing for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Apress.</ref>
| An extensible code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running and version control.
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[WinEdt]]
|
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[X11 Xedit]]
|
| {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
|-
| [[XEDIT]]
| Default under [[VM/CMS]].
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Yudit]]
|
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]}}
|-
|[[Xed]]
|
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
|[[Zed (text editor)|Zed]]
|
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]], [[Apache License|Apache 2.0]], [[GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
|}

== Text user interface ==

=== System default ===
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name
! Description
! License
|-
| [[E (PC DOS)|E]] 
| is the text editor in PC DOS 6, [[PC DOS 7]] and [[PC DOS 2000]].
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[ed (text editor)|ed]] 
| The default [[line editor]] on [[Unix]] since the birth of Unix. Either ed or a compatible editor is available on all systems labeled as Unix (not by default on every one).
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|- 	
| [[ED (CP/M)|ED]]
| The default editor on [[CP/M]], [[MP/M]], [[Concurrent CP/M]], [[CP/M-86]], [[MP/M-86]], [[Concurrent CP/M-86]].
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[EDIT (MS-DOS)|EDIT]] 
| The default on [[MS-DOS 5.0]] and higher and is included with all 32-bit versions of Windows that do not rely on a separate copy of DOS. Up to including [[MS-DOS 6.22]], it only supported files up to 64 KB.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[EDIT (DR-DOS)|EDIT]]
| The text editor in [[Novell DOS 7]], [[OpenDOS 7.01]], [[DR-DOS 7.02]] and higher. Supports large files for as long as swap space is available. Version 7 and higher optionally supports a pseudo-graphics user interface named NewUI.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[EDIX]]
| The text editor in [[Concurrent DOS]], [[Concurrent DOS XM]], [[Concurrent PC DOS]], [[Concurrent DOS 386]], [[FlexOS 286]], [[FlexOS 386]], [[4680 OS]], [[4690 OS]], [[S5-DOS/MT]].
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[EDITOR (DR-DOS)|EDITOR]]
| The text editor in [[DR DOS 3.31]] through [[DR DOS 6.0]], and the predecessor of [[EDIT (DR-DOS)|EDIT]].
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[EDLIN]] 
| A command-line based line editor introduced with [[86-DOS]], and the default on [[MS-DOS]] prior to version 5 and is also available on MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows NT.
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| ee
| Stands for ''Easy Editor'', is part of the base system of [[FreeBSD]], along with vi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/basics/#editors|title=Chapter 3. FreeBSD Basics &#124; FreeBSD Documentation Portal|website=docs.freebsd.org|access-date=26 August 2022}}</ref>
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[nvi]] 
| (Installed as vi by default in BSD operating systems and some [[Linux]] distributions) – A free replacement for the original vi which maintains compatibility while adding some new features.
| {{open source|[[BSD licenses|BSD-3-Clause]]}}
|-
| [[Vi (text editor)|vi]]<ref name="vi1"/><ref name="vi2"/><ref name="vi3">Lamb, L., Robbins, A., & Robbins, A. (1998). Learning the vi Editor. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref> 
| The default for [[Unix]] systems and must be included in all [[POSIX]] compliant systems<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html|title=vi|website=pubs.opengroup.org|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref>  – One of the earliest screen-based editors, it is based on [[ex (text editor)|ex]].
| {{open source|[[BSD licenses|BSD-4-Clause]] or [[Common Development and Distribution License|CDDL]]}}
|}

=== Others ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name
! Description
! License
|-
| [[Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor|ECCE]] 
| ECCE (The Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor) is a text editor designed by Dr Hamish Dewar at Edinburgh University.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[Emacs]] 
| A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, [[Emacs Lisp]]. Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[JED (text editor)|JED]]
| Multi-mode, multi-window editor with drop-down menus, folding, ctags support, undo, UTF-8, key-macros, autosave, etc.  Multi-emulation; default is emacs.  Programmable in [[S-Lang]].
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Joe's Own Editor|JOE]] 
| A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-[[WordStar]] style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[LE (text editor)|LE]]
| 
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Midnight Commander|mcedit]] 
| Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[mg (text editor)|mg]]
| Small and light, uses GNU/Emacs keybindings. Installed by default on OpenBSD.
| {{open source|[[Public domain]]}}
|-
| [[Mined (text editor)|MinEd]] 
| Text editor with user-friendly interface, mouse and menu control, and extensive Unicode and CJK support; for Unix/Linux and Windows/DOS.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL]]}}
|-
| [[GNU nano]] 
| A clone of Pico [[GNU General Public License|GPL]] licensed.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[ne (text editor)|ne]] 
| A minimal, modern replacement for vi.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[Pico (text editor)|Pico]]
| 
| {{open source|[[Apache License|Apache-2.0]]}}
|-
| [[SETEDIT]] 
| A clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
| [[The SemWare Editor]]
| (TSE for DOS)<br />(formerly called QEdit)
| {{Proprietary}}
|}

====vi clones====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name
! Description
! License
|-
| [[BusyBox#Commands|BusyBox vi]]<ref>Wells, N. (2000). BusyBox: A swiss army knife for linux. Linux Journal, 2000(78es), 10.</ref> 
| A small vi clone with a minimum of commands and features.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]}}
|-
| [[elvis (text editor)|Elvis]] 
| The first vi clone and the default vi in Minix.
| {{open source|[[Artistic License|ClArtistic]]}}
|-
| [[ex (text editor)|ex]] 
| Or is [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] an [[ex (text editor)|ex]]-clone? [[ex (text editor)|ex]] was an '''[[ex (text editor)|ex]]'''tended version of [[ed (text editor)|ed]]. It got a full-screen visual interface, thereby becoming the [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] text editor.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[Kakoune]]
| An editor inspired by vi that makes use of multi cursor workflows and modal editing.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Voinov |first1=Philippe |last2=Rigger |first2=Manuel |last3=Su |first3=Zhendong |chapter=Forest: Structural Code Editing with Multiple Cursors |date=2022-12-01 |title=Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3563835.3567663 |series=Onward! 2022 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=137–152 |doi=10.1145/3563835.3567663 |isbn=978-1-4503-9909-8|arxiv=2210.11124 }}</ref>
| {{open source|Unlicense}}
|-
| [[nvi (text editor)|nvi]] 
| A new implementation and currently the standard vi in BSD distributions.
| {{open source|[[BSD licenses|BSD-3-Clause]]}}
|-
| [[Stevie (text editor)|Stevie]] 
| STEVIE (ST Editor for VI Enthusiasts) for the Atari ST, the starting point for vim and xvi
| {{open source|[[Public domain]]}}
|-
| [[Vile (text editor)|vile]] 
| Derived from an early version of [[Microemacs]] in an attempt to bring the [[Emacs]] multi-window/multi-buffer editing paradigm to vi users. First published 1991 with infinite undo, UTF-8 compatibility, multi-window/multi-buffer operation, a macro expansion language, syntax highlighting, file read and write hooks, and more.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]}}
|-
| [[Vim (text editor)|vim]]<ref name="vim"/> 
| An extended version of the vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code.
| {{open source|Vim}}
|}

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== No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits) ==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Name
! Description
! License
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| [[Cocoa text system]] 
| Supports text components of [[macOS]]. 
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
| [[Scintilla (software)]] 
| Used as the core of several text editors. 
| {{open source|[[Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer|HPND]]}}
|-
| [[sed]] (stream editor)
| The standard [[Unix]] '''s'''tream '''ed'''itor based on the scripting features in [[ed (text editor)|ed]]. A utility that parses and transforms text, using a simple, compact programming language.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
|-
| [[Text Processing Utility|Text Processing Utility (TPU)]]
| Language and runtime package, developed by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]], used to implement the [[Language-Sensitive Editor]] and [[Extensible Versatile Editor]], Eve.
| {{Proprietary}}
|}

== ASCII and ANSI art ==
Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of [[ASCII art|ASCII]] and [[ANSI art|ANSI]] text art.
* [[ACiDDraw]] – designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64)
* [[TheDraw]] – [[ANSI]]/[[ASCII]] text editor for [[DOS]] and [[PCBoard]] file format support

=== ASCII font editors ===
* [[FIGlet]] – for creating ASCII art text
* [[TheDraw]] – [[DOS]] ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts

== Historical ==

=== Visual and full-screen editors ===
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* [[Brief (text editor)|Brief]] – a programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2
* [[Edit application]] – a programmer's editor for Classic Mac OS
* [[MS-DOS Editor|EDIT]] – a menu-based editor introduced to supersede [[EDLIN]] in [[MS-DOS]] version 5.0 and up and available in most [[Microsoft Windows]] 
* [[EDT (Digital)|EDT]] – a character-based editor used on [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[PDP-11]]s and [[OpenVMS|VMS]]
* [[O26 (text editor)|O26]] – written for the operator console of the [[CDC 6000 series]] machines in the mid-1960s
* [[Red (text editor)|Red]] – a VMS editor, written in [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]] variant [[STOIC]]
* [[se (text editor)|se]] – an early screen-based editor for [[Unix]]
* [[DEC SED (text editor)|SED]] – cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on [[TOPS-10]], [[TOPS-20]] and VMS
* [[Source Program Maintenance Online II|SPMOL-II]] – editor used mostly for programming on [[IBM mainframe]]s with the [[IBM 3270]] terminal
* [[STET (text editor)|STET]] (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977
* [[TeachText]]
* [[Text Editor and Corrector|TECO]] – a character-based editor, which included a programming language.
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=== Line editors ===
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* [[Colossal Typewriter]] – an early editor thought to be written for the [[PDP-1]]
* [[ed (text editor)|ed]]:
**[[Unix]]'s early line editor
**[[CP/M]]'s line editor
* [[Edlin|EDLIN]] – a line editor delivered with [[MS-DOS]]
* [[EDT (Univac)]] – a line editor for [[Unisys]] [[VS/9]] and [[Fujitsu]] [[BS2000]] systems
* [[ex (text editor)|ex]] – an EXtended version of Unix's [[ed (text editor)|ed]], later evolved into the visual editor [[Vi (text editor)|vi]]
* fred – sed-like line editor used on the [[CDC 7600]] at Los Alamos
* GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) – a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the [[GEC 4000 series]] computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of [[Rutherford Appleton Laboratory]], and then adopted by [[GEC Computers]] for [[OS4000]].
* [[sed]] – a non-interactive programmable stream editor available in [[Unix]]
* [[Text Editor and Corrector|TECO]] – one of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language
* TEDIT – [[GEC 4000 series]] editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT
* [[QED (text editor)|QED]]
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== See also ==
* [[Comparison of text editors]]
* [[Editor war]]
* [[Line editor]]
* [[List of HTML editors]]
* [[List of word processors]]
* [[Outliner]], a specialized type of word processor
* [[Source code editor]]

== Notes ==
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