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Welcome to http://TextEditors.org, your home for text editor reviews, analysis, and commentary by the community at large. Home of the largest collection of text editor information on the web. News about new or newly-updated editors can be found in NewAnnouncements.

This is a WikiWiki site which means that ANYBODY can create/make/delete entries. I hope this means we will build a healthy community around the issues that matter most to us.

So far, we've collected 819 TextEditors listed in the EditorIndex. --RonPerrella

About text editors:

PickingATextEditor is a discussion about how to pick a text editor for your use.
TextEditorFamilies is the list of editors (by "family") that we cover here. The idea is to be as inclusive as possible. Any platform, any OS, any chip, any language, etc. There's plenty of room for everyone.
EditorIndex is the list of all editors regardless of family or feature.
UnClassified (!) These are editors that have not been put into a "family". Can you help?
EditorPower is the discussion about the relative strengths of certain editors
GeneralTipsAndTricks are available that work in many different editors.
CategoryFeatures -- in which editor is feature X present?
Windows editors that work fine WithoutTheWindowsRegistry
OtherTextEditorWikis -- this aint the only one...
OrthodoxEditors - Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov's classification of editors as Eastern Orthodox or Western Orthodox
CommonGripes -- problems with TextEditors
Some Gripes become HolyWars
TextEditorVotingPage -- show your support!
AboutLicenses -- About software licenses for text editors

About extending text editors:

PluginArchitectures is the discussion about shared/common/unique characteristics of how TextEditors do plugins.
MacroLanguagePower is a discussion/classification about the relative "power" of each MacroLanguage out there.
EditorsVsIDE -- the battle rages on
DebuggerIntegration - how text editors "talk" with debuggers
MailIntegration -- how text editors and mail become symbiotic

About How to Program text editors:

DesigningTextEditors
CoreTextEditorProgramming
MacroLanguage programming
DesignStandards
TestingTextEditors (including TortureTests)
KeyboardsMatter -- your keyboard can make a big difference
FontsMatter -- Great fonts for the long haul
DisplaysMatter -- how the size, shape, and qualities of the display affect text editing

About Human Language Document Production:

Text Editor Humor:

Text editors on the Web

USENET newsgroups
IRC (?)
- http://www.vmunix.com/vim/chat.html
- Server: irc.fu-berlin.de Channel: #vim
- Server: irc.openprojects.net Channel: #vim

About text-editor programmers:

RobBarnaby - Co-author of WordStar
MikeCowlishaw - author of LEXX and LPEX text editors as well as the RexxLanguage.
JanFiala - Author of PSPad
CraigFinseth - wrote a TextBook on writing text editors of the EmacsFamily.
JamesGosling - Author of GoslingEmacs
DavidHamel - author of Boxer http://www.boxersoftware.com/pgauth.htm
MarkHessling - Author of THE (The Hessling Editor), maintainer of Regina Rexx
BillJoy - original author of VI
BrianKelly - author of TM
ClarkMaurer - SlickEdit and early IBM E Editor family members, including E, E2, and E3
SammyMitchell - QEdit, now called TSE-Jr, and TheSemwareEditor
BramMoolenaar - Author of VIM
DanMurphy - Author of TECO
RobPike - author of Sam, ACME and other text editors.
RichardStallman - Designed and wrote GnuEmacs (initially at least)
BlairThompson - X2 http://www.tangbu.com/bwt.htm
XavierDeLamberterie? - Author of IBM XEDIT

Text-editor related Weblogs

Articles to read:

About This Wiki:

WhyWiki describes my motivations for doing this in WikiWiki.
WikiNode is about this wiki, with pointers to related ones
TextFormattingRules is the list of "standard" WikiWiki formatting hints.
StandardInfoBlock is the standard information "chunk" for each editor that should be filled in.
ThingsIdLikeToSee is a great place to drop suggestions.
I try to block WikiSpam? -- my thanks to all who have helped keep this site clean.
Check out our GuestBook to see who has stopped by and contributed. (sign yourself up!)
Contributors: Who works on this site
TheRules
Deprecated - Links to wiki pages that should go away