Comparison of text editors
Template:Short description This article compares notable text editors. It may not be up-to-date or all-inclusive. Comparisons are between stable versions (not upcoming or beta releases) and are exclusive of any add-ons, extensions or external programs unless otherwise noted.
Other features can be listed via the Category of text editor features.
General attributes
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Operating system support
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Natural language (localization)
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| nowrap Template:Rh | Acme | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Alphatk | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Atom | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | BBEdit | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Brackets | English, German, French, Polish(Outdated), Korean, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish(Outdated) |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Coda | English, German, French, Spanish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | ConTEXT | English, German, French, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Crimson Editor | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | ed | |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Editra | English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | EmEditor | English, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | epsilon | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Geany | English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi |
| nowrap Template:Rh | gedit | English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi |
| nowrap Template:Rh | GNU Emacs | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | JED | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | jEdit | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | JOE[6] | English, German, French |
| nowrap Template:Rh | JOVE | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Kate[7] | English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | KEDIT | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Komodo Edit | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | KWrite | English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Metapad[8] | English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | mined | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | MS-DOS Editor | English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Nano | English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese |
| nowrap Template:Rh | NEdit | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Notepad | English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Notepad++ | English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi |
| nowrap Template:Rh | nvi | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Pico | English, Italian |
| nowrap Template:Rh | PolyEdit | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | PSPad | English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | RJ TextEd | English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Sam | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | SciTE[9] | English, German, French (Outdated (1.72)), Polish, Japanese (Outdated (1.62)), Italian, Dutch (Outdated (1.67)), Portuguese (Outdated (1.63)), Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | SlickEdit | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | Smultron | English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | SubEthaEdit | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | TED Notepad | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | TextEdit | English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | TextMate | English |
| nowrap Template: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 Template:Rh | TextWrangler | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | The SemWare Editor | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | UltraEdit | English, German, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese |
| nowrap Template:Rh | VEDIT | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | vi | English |
| nowrap Template: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 Template:Rh | Visual Studio Code | English, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish |
| nowrap Template:Rh | XEmacs | English |
| nowrap Template:Rh | XNEdit | English |
Document interface
The following table identifies the following attributes of an editor that describe its user experience with respect to multiple documents:
- Multiple instances
- Whether multiple instances of the program can be open at the same time for editing multiple files (one in each instance). Applies both for single-document interface (SDI) and multiple-document interface (MDI). Also, applies for a program that has a user interface that looks like multiple instances of the same program (such as some versions of Word).
- Single document window splitting
- Whether a window can be split to simultaneously view different areas of a file.
- MDI overlappable windows
- Whether each open document gets its own fully movable window inside the editor environment.
- MDI tabbed document interface
- Whether multiple documents can be viewed as tabs in a single window.
- MDI window splitting
- Whether supports splitting the application window to show multiple documents (non-overlapping windows).
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Basic features
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Programming features
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Additional programming features
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Key bindings
Notes:
- Vim
- Custom maps of Ctrl-1 .. Ctrl-9, Ctrl-0 cannot be set, nor is Control-Shift-<char> distinguished from Ctrl-<char>.[66][67]
- 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.
- Pico
- Pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc.
Protocol support
Character encoding support
The following table identifies notable character encodings that an editor supports
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Right-to-left and bidirectional text
Support for right-to-left (RTL) text is necessary for editing some languages like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish and the mixture of left-to-right (LTR) and RTL known as bidirectional (BiDi). The following table indicates whether an editor supports RTL and BiDi text. Some editors (e.g. Notepad++ 5.1.3) can render bidirectional text but does not support editing it.
Newline support
The following table identifies newline support of editors. The three options are:
- CR/LF
- Generally, used on Windows.
- LF
- Generally, used on Unix-like systems (including macOS).[76]
- CR
- Generally, used on Classic Mac OS.
See also
- Editor war
- Comparison of word processors
- Comparison of integrated development environments
- Comparison of HTML editors
- Comparison of TeX editors
- Comparison of hex editors
- Comparison of notetaking software
- Comparison of wiki software
- List of text editors
- List of wiki software
- List of personal information managers
- Outliner
Notes
References
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- ↑ SubEthaEdit supports advanced block editing, including multi-line typing and non-contiguous block selections.
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- ↑ a b GNU Emacs can have Wordstar emulation, with the command M-x wordstar-mode, as found from ws-mode.el retrieved 2017Template:Nbh03Template:Nbh14. See also the "Emulation" section of the previous GNU Emacs manual. The WordStar mode, however, has been obsolete since GNU Emacs 24.5.
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