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This is meant to be a comprehensive list of TextEditors regardless of classification. Every editor in this collection of reviews should be listed below. Another way to view this site is to use the TextEditorFamilies page to drill down based on lineage.
There are 1,228 editors listed as of Sunday July 4 2010.
The Alphabetical list
- 010 Editor - Professional Hex Editor with Binary Templates
- 12Ghosts Notepad - Shareware Windows note taking editor
- 1fh - Freeware binary/hex editor for Windows
- 1st JavaScript Editor - Shareware Windows JavaScript editor
- 3rdRail - Commercial programmer's IDE for Rails development
- 9ne - A web based code editor, modeled on emacs
- A.T.Edit - Another TclTk based text editor for Windows and Linux
- AAEMACS - Freeware DOS port of Gnu Emacs using CWSDPMI memory extender
- Abdio HTML Editor - Shareware Windows HTML Editor
- Abdio PDF Editor - Shareware Windows PDF Editor
- ACE - Open source cross-platform collaborative editor
- ACF Notes - Freeware Windows text editor with MDI interface
- Acharya - Open source editor for Bengali and other Indian languages
- ACIDE - Free IDE for embedded development on Atmel procesors using JavrBasic???, AvrAsm???, and AVR GCC
- Acme-SAC - Open source, standalone editor/shell/user interface based on ACME
- ACME - A multiwindow text editor from BellLabs (see also Wily) that runs on Plan 9 and Unix
- ADAM - Extended version of EVE
- ADEPT - Enhanced system editor on later Wang VS systems
- Adie - Cross-platform text editor using the Fox Toolkit
- AdminScriptEditor - Shareware Script Editor for Windows Admins
- Adobe InDesign - Adobe's desktop publisher program
- Adobe Pagemaker - Formerly Aldus Pagemaker, now owned by Adobwe
- AE Asm - A tiny editor for Assembly language coding
- Aedit-PCMag - Small menu driven editor from PC Magazine
- AEditor - A syntax highlighting editor written in Ruby
- AEDIT - Intel's text editor for iRMX (and other) now abandon ware!
- AEdit - Freeware word processor for Windows from AxArt?
- AEdiX - Freeware Windows editor with Pascal scripting engine
- aee - Open source Linux text editor for X-Windows
- AeroNotes - Open source Windows notepad using Vista Aero Glass technology
- AE - A TextFolding editor for Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows
- Ahed - Freeware editor for MsDos, sank without a trace
- AkelPad - Open source plain text editor
- akjseditor - Open source JavaScript editor that runs in IE
- aled - Alan's editor for MsDos
- ALittleHTML - Freeware HTML editor based on domiNote
- Alleycode - Freeware web development editor for Windows
- Alpha-OS/2 - Freeware multi-document highlighting editor based on Alpha software analysis program
- AlphaTK - Cross-platform programmer's editor in TclTk
- AlphaWord - Built-in editor on the Alphasmart Dana PalmOS device
- Alpha - A TCL based editor for Unix
- Altova XML Spy - Commercial validating XML editor and debugger
- Amaya - The W3C consortium's open source web browser and editor
- AMEME - A Minimally Extended Minimal Editor in TclTk source form
- AME - A Minimal Editor in TclTk source form
- AmigaWriter - A word processor for Amigas
- Anaconda - Open source multi-window editor which cn minimize to the tray
- Anansi - Freeware project oriented HTML editor for Windows
- AngelWriter - Freeware Rich Text Editor for Windows
- Anjuta - Open source Gnome Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux???.
- Annotate - Open source text editor for AmigaDOS 4.0
- Another Notepad - Shareware Notepad replacement with WordStar command set
- Antechinus PHP - Shareware PHP editor for Windows
- Antechinus - Shareware validating JavaScript editor for Windows
- Antenna House XML Editor - Commercial validating XML editor
- Anthonys Editor - An Emacs style editor that implements text folding.
- ANTLRWorks - ANTLR GUI Development Environment
- AnyEdit - Customizable programming IDE based on the Scintilla edit control
- aoeui - Lightweight UNIX-friendly editor optimized for Dvorak keyboard layout
- Apex Text - Cross-platform open source text editor in Java
- Aptana - Open source IDE for web development
- AptEdit - Shareware Windows Text/HEX/HTML Editor
- Aquamacs - Mac-style Emacs for Mac OS X
- Arabic Pad - Freeware Unicode editor intended for writing Arabic
- Arachnophilia - HTML editor written in Java
- Araneae - Extensible freeware web editor for Windows
- ARPUS Ce - Freeware clone of the Apollo Ce editor, available for many platforms
- Asbru Web Content Editor - commercial text editor for embedding in web pages
- ASCIIArtStudio - An ASCII editor for ascii art, not ordinary text files
- asdfg - QWERTY edition of aoeui, a lightweight UNIX-friendly editor
- ASED - A TclTk IDE
- AsmIDE - Open source IDE for Assembly language development for Freescale 68hc11 and 68hc12 processors
- Assembler Edit - A simple Windows assembly language editor with procedure templates
- Astyle CSS Editor - Freeware CSS editor for Windows
- AtariWriter Plus - Atari word processor
- Atlantis - Shareware alternative to Microsoft Word
- ATPad - Open source tabbed Notepad replacement
- August - Open source HTML editor written in TclTk for UNIX/Linux?
- Aurel RTF Editor - Freeware RTF editor, written in BASIC
- Aurora - Fast text editor for DOS and Win32 console
- Avenir - "The Writer's Workshop" for Mac OS/X
- AvsP - A text editor for creating AVISynth scripts
- AXRScan - Freeware hex editor for Windows
- AYATE - Freeware windows text editor with large file support
- B2hedit - Tiny hex editor from the author of TheGun, TopGun, and QuickEditor
- Backbone TextEdit - Text editor component of the Linux Backbone desktop project
- BaKoMa TeX - Shareware Windows editor for LaTeX
- Banjon - Open source English to Bengali encoder and editor
- BarrysEmacs - A freeware Emacs clone, intended for Windows users
- Bash HTML Editor - Shareware HTML editor aimed at hand coders
- BBEdit - The most popular text editor for Mac OS
- BDVNotepad - a Windows notepad replacement
- Bean - Free, open source word processor for OS/X using Cocoa
- Beaver - Simple, lightweight GTK2 editor for Linux.
- BEAV - Binary Editor And Viewer for AIX, AmigaDOS, BSD, Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, UNIX, ULTRIX
- bed - Variable data format binary editor
- BE - Andy's folding binary editor for DOS, OS/2, Windows, NetWare?, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, SunOS?
- biew - Binary view project
- BIM-Edit - Enhanced alternative IBM mainframe editor
- Binaryeditor - Open source editor for text, hex, and binary files
- Bindesh's Notepad - Freeware windows Notepad replacement with source code
- Bix - An open source text editor written in Java
- Black Word - Open source text editor in VB.Net
- BlackBeard - A powerful MsDos TextEditor
- Bless - Open source hex editor in Mono/Gtk??# for Gnome/Linux??
- Blochek - Open source MS-DOS editor with Unicode support
- Bloodshed Dev-CPlusPlus - Open source IDE for GCC development using MinGW??
- Bluefish - Programmer's and web developer's editor
- BlueJ - Open source IDE intended for teaching object oriented programming in Java
- Boa Constructor - Open source cross-platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI builder
- Boxer - A programmer's text editor for Windows
- BPMNotepad - a Windows notepad replacement featuring auto text scrolling
- Breeze - Popular shareware word processor for MS-DOS
- Brief Perisoft A Brief editor clone from Perisoft, not to be confused with the Original Brief
- Brief - A powerful programmable text editor for DOS
- bsed - Binary sed
- bvi - Binary ViFamily editor
- BRAVO - Early screen editor from Xerox PARC
- BVRDE - Open source C/C++ IDE designed to support remote compilation
- C PlusPlus Builder - Borland's IDE for C++ programming
- C-Free - Shareware C development IDE for Windows with support for multiple compilers
- Caditor - Open source Windows text editor in .NET
- calvin - free, open source limited MS-DOS vi clone
- CANDE - Text editor and command line on Burroughs systems running MCP
- Carbon Emacs - A Mac OS/X friendly Gnu Emacs distribution
- CardTXT - PalmOS? memo/doc/text editor
- Cascade DTP - Freeware HTML and CSS editor for Windows
- Castillo - Shareware text editor for Windows
- Ccy - Freeware Windows text editor with syntax highlighting
- cedit-OS2 - Norton Editor emulator for OS/2
- cEditMX - Open source IDE for C, C++, others. Rewrite of cEditPro? for stability and features
- cEditPro - Open source IDE for C, C++, others, written in Delphi
- cEdit - Open sourrce programmer's editor written in Visual Basic
- Cedit - Programmer's editor for PocketPC?
- Cedric - Text editor for SWTPC 6800/6809 based micros
- Ce - Editor for Apollo DomainOS? workstations
- CE - Open source simple unix text editor
- cgEdit - Freeware Windows text editor with MDI interface
- change - Open source non-interactive editor similar to sed
- Chets Editor - A portable Emacs editor based on MicroEmacs
- CiNotes - Shareware Windows text editor with tree-structured note organizer
- CintSciTE - Open source IDE for the Cint C/C++ interpreter
- Classical - Shareware word processor for scholars
- ClearEdit - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement in Delphi
- CLEditor - Freeware Windows editor for the IBM AS/400 command language
- Climacs - An Emacs implementation in Common Lisp
- CNC Edit - Shareware text editor for CNC programming
- CNotepad - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with MDI interface and spell check
- CobTree - A free Windows based COBOL outline editor
- Cobweb - Freeware simple HTML editor for the Macintosh
- Coda-Mac - Shareware Mac OS/X web editor
- Coda - A free Windows syntax highlighting editor
- Code Browser - A folding text editor for Linux and Windows
- Code Crusader - Commercial programmer's IDE for Unix
- CodeBlocks - The open source, cross platform Free C++ IDE.
- CodeChameleon - Shareware Windows HTML editor, formatter, and code beautifier
- CodeDragon - Open source programmer's IDE based on wxWidgets
- CodeEditor - Open source non-rich text editor for GNUstep
- CodeForge - Commercial C++ development IDE for Unix/Linux?
- CodeGenie - Windows programmer's editor - no longer available
- CodeLite - Open source, cross-platform IDE for C/C++ programming
- CodeLobster - Shareware Windows HTML editor with code folding
- CodeRoar - Windows folding editor, free for non-commercial purposes
- CodeSourcery - Commercial GCC IDEs for various targets
- CodeWright - Windows text editor, acquired and discontinued by Borland
- CodeX Writer - Shareware HTML editor for Windows
- CodingEditor - Open source text editor in C#, based on Peter
- COED - Screen editor for the Acorn BBC Micro.
- CoffeeCup - An HTML editor
- ColdFusionPad - Freeware Windows editor for ColdFusion? development
- Colossal Typewriter - One of the earliest computer text editors, on a DEC PDP-1
- Compiler911 - IDE component of a freeware Object Pascal and Assembler compiler
- Computerware Editor - Editor for systems based on the Motorola 6800/6809 CPU
- Concurrence - Open source networked collaborative editor
- CONDOR - IBM mainframe on-line library management and program development system
- Conglomerate - Open source Linux and Mac OS/X XML editor
- Conroy MicroEmacs - Walter Bright's version of Dave Conroy's original MicroEmacs
- ConTEXT - A free Windows programming editor
- Cooktop - A free XML editor for Windows
- cooledit - Unix programmer's editor, runs under XWindows
- CopyWriter - Freeware Rich Text editor with plugins and multiple language support
- CopyWrite - Writer's project manager for the Mac.
- CoreEditor - Shareware Windows web development editor
- CPad - A free Windows programming/HTML editor
- Cream - Vim editor repackaged to use CUA look and feel
- CreaText - A Mac HTML text editor with some basic and advanced features.
- CREDIT - Early full-screen editor for Intel MDS (Intellec) systems.
- CREdit - Free Windows programming editor with syntax highlighting and regular expressions
- Crimson - A Windows editor
- Crisp - A Brief style text editor for Windows and Unix
- Crookes - console-mode text editor written in Python
- Crypt Edit - Freeware Windows Notepad/Wordpad? replacement, with encryption
- cse - Tiny DOS editor with IBM Personal Editor feel
- CSSED - Open source GTK2 based CSS editor
- CssEditor - Freeware CSS editor for Windows
- CSVed - An editor for Comma Separated Values (CSV) files
- CTEST9? - MIT CTSS Context editor for BCD cart image files written by Art Samuel of IBM (1963)
- [CTSS ED]? - MIT CTSS BCD Card image context editor (1964)
- Cubic IDE - Programmer's IDE based on GoldEd for Amiga OS3 and MorphOS
- CutAndPaste - Commodore 64 commercial word processor from Batteries Included Software
- CuteHTMLPro - A windows based HTML editor
- CUTE - A Scintilla based editor
- CWordpad - Freeware Windows Wordpad replacement with spell check and thesaurus
- Cyber Notepad - Freeware Windows simple notepad
- Cygnus Hex Editor - Shareware hex editor for Windows
- CygnusEd - AmigaDOS text editor
- Dana - A programmer's editor (commercial software)
- Darkroom - Windows .NET clone of Mac OS/X WriteRoom
- Data Workshop - Multi-platform binary editor written in Java
- Dav - "Dav Ain't Vi", a Gnu/Linux?? console text editor
- DEC-SED - CRT editor for Digital Equipment systems running TOPS-10 and TOPS-20
- Dear Diary - Open source Wordpad replacement with encryption
- DCode - Simple code editor with support for D syntax highlighting
- Delphi - Borland's IDE for Object Pascal programming
- Delphi For PHP - Codegear's commercial IDE for PHP development
- Descent - Open source Eclipse plugin for D language development
- DevCPlusPlus - Free, open source IDE for GCC compiler suite
- DevPHP IDE - Free, open source IDE for PHP
- Diakonos - A customizable, usable console-based text editor written in Ruby
- DisplayWrite - IBM word processor on DisplayWriter? machine and mainframes
- DME - Open source Amiga editor included with the Dice 68000 compiler
- Dockboard - Open source outline editor for authors
- DocPad - Freeware skinnable Notepad replacement
- DocuJot - Freeware replacement for Windows Vista Notepad
- domiNote - A free Windows editor
- DragonEdit - Shareware text/HTML editor for PalmOS
- DreamWeaver - A popular commercial HTML editor by Macromedia
- DREDIT - DEC "drum editor" for editing files on magnetic tape
- DrJava - Open source IDE for Java development intended for beginners
- DrPython - Open source editor for Python development using wxPython and Scintilla
- DrScheme - Open source programming environment included with PLT Scheme
- DzSoft Perl Editor - Shareware windows Perl editor with syntax highlighting and debugging
- DzSoft PHP Editor - Shareware windows PHP editor
- DzSoft WebPad - Shareware Windows HTML editor with PHP and ASP syntax highlighting
- e.com - 5K MS-DOS editor by David Nye, MD.
- e-Mtv - Tiny (11k on Windows) open source console mode (curses) text editor for Linux, FreeBSD?, SunOS?, and Windows
- E2 - Second major version of IBM's PC-DOS E editor
- E3 IBM - IBM's E3 text editor included with PC-DOS
- E3 - Open source editor by Albrecht Kliene, for Windows, DOS, Unix and others, emulating WordStar, vi, emacs, pico, and others
- e88 - An ASM86 editor
- e93 - Portable open source editor in TclTk
- eArea - A simple web-based WYSIWYG text editor
- EasiWriter - Word processor with Sections for RiscOS
- Easymacs - Making Emacs easy for newbies
- EasyScript - Commodore 64/128 word processor for the published by Commodore Business Machines
- EasyWriter - Early word proxcessor for the Apple ][, later ported to the IBM PC
- Ecce - Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor
- eClean 2000 - Shareware Windows editor for cleaning up email replies
- Eclipse - A portable IDE in Java originally contributed by IBM.
- ecoder - Open source web hosted code editor in PHP and JavaScript
- EControl Syntax Editor - Open source text editor based on the EControl edit control
- ED-1100-PC - MS-DOS port of the Sperry 1100 ED editor
- ED-1100 - Text editor on the Sperry 1100 series mainframe
- ED-NT - Open source clone of DEC EDT editor for Windows console
- ED-Prime - Text editor on Prime Computer Systems running PRIMOS
- eddi - X11 based editor
- EdForWindows - A powerful programmer's editor and IDE for Microsoft Windows-based systems.
- Edile - A basic but useful editor implemented in a single Python source code file and requiring no installation.
- EDIT FILE - Line editor on CDC machines running NOS (Network Operating System)
- EDIT PDP-8 - Line editor on DEC PDP-8 systems
- Edit Pro - Java based editor control for execution in a browser
- EDIT-32 - Text editor from DecFamily for TSX-32 operating system (and others)
- EDIT0303 - OS/2 text editor written in REXX
- EDIT4 - A very early line editor for the PDP8 from Edinburgh University
- EDIT5B - A line editor by Chris Whitfield at Edinburgh
- EditBang - Shareware Console mode text editor designed to replace DOS EDIT
- EditCNC - Shareware editor for text and CNC programming
- EditCrypt - Freeware Windows Notepad repalcement with encryption, web search, and export to PDF
- EditD - Windows text editor by author of EditV
- Editeur - Shareware Windows editor also available as an Active-X control
- EditExt - Shareware text editor with tabbed interface and syntax highlighting
- Edith Pro/X11 - Open source multi-platform HTML editor
- Editing MACroS - RMS's original emacs, written in TECO under ITS
- EditiX - XML editor for MacOS???, Linux, Windows
- Editize - Shareware cross-platform web hosted rich text editor
- EditMage - Delphi programmers text editor for Windows
- EditMan - Freeware Windows text editor with tabbed interface ans syntax highlighting
- Editor2 - A text editor for Windows, distributed as part of the 2Xplorer file manager package
- Editor - Programmer's editor for CP/M originally published in Dr. Dobb's Journal
- EDITOR - Standard system editor on Wang VS systems
- eDitor - Syntax highlighting editor for D
- EditPadLite - JGSoft's freeware Windows text editor, "lite"version of EditPadPro
- EditPadPro - JGSoft's shareware Windows text editor
- EditPlus for ST - Shareware text editor for the AtariST?
- EditPlus - Internet-ready 32-bit text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows
- EditPro - Windows text editor
- Editra - Open source multi-platform editor with syntax highlighting and plugins
- EditRocket - Shareware Windows programmer's editor
- EditV - DOS editor (like Turbo Pascal Editor)
- EDIT - Edinburgh Regional Computer Center's command-line editor
- Edlin - The original MS-DOS line editor
- EDL? - MIT CTSS Line-marked BCD file context editor by Jerry Saltzer (1965)
- edm - Line editor based on TYPSET running on Multics
- EDM - Mark's EDM editor
- EDMACS - Editor based on MIT ITS Emacs, written in TECO for DEC systems running RSTS-E
- EdTclCodeEditor - Ed the Tcl Code Editor
- EdtPlus - EDT clone for DOS, Windows
- Edt - Open source VMS EDT clone for Linux, Unix
- EDT - VAX/VMS, OpenVMS
- EDT-BS2000 - Editor on Fujitsu/Siemens BS2000 mainframes
- Edwin - An Emacs-like editor included in MIT/GNU scheme's distribution
- EdWord - Shareware Amiga word processor, now in public domain with source
- EDXOR - A small freeware Windows editor
- edx - Tiny editor for Linux GUI with WordStar key mapping
- edyuk - Open source, cross-platform IDE for C++ and Qt4
- ED - Text editor supplied with Digital Research Concurrent CP/M
- ed - Unix line editor
- ee - Open source Linux text editor using ncurses
- ee-Ding - Easy Editor - small Open Source text editor for Linux/Unix?, Windows and MSDOS.
- eeditor - Open source 32 bit HTML editor for Windows
- EFTalk - A text editor and and audio file player, designed to emulate a dictation machine.
- eggy - Open source IDE in Python for Unix like systems
- ehp - Public Domain HP Unix editor, ported to OS/2, with source
- EINE - Eine Is Not Emacs, an Emacs editor for Lisp machines
- Ekisko HTML Editor - Freeware portable Windows HTML editor
- Electric Pencil - Word processor on early 8-bit mictrocomputers
- ElfData - Mac OS/X XML Editor/validator
- Elfima Notepad - Freeware text editor to create PDF, SVG, XML, or XHTML documents.
- elle - Elle Looks Like Emacs, open source emacs style editor for Minix
- Elvis - A cross-platform editor similar to Unix vi
- EmACT - Emacs clone for MS-DOS, Windows, and PocketPC based on Conroy MicroEMACS
- EmbeddedGNU - Open source IDE for C development on Freescale 68hc11 and 68hc12 processors
- EmEditor - Unicode Windows programming editor
- EmeraldEditor - An OpenSource clone of CrimsonEditor
- em - Derivative of ed for screen editing, and ancestor of vi
- EnginSite CSS Editor - Shareware CSS IDE
- EnginSite Perl Editor - Shareware Perl IDE
- EnginSite PHP Editor - Shareware PHP IDE
- enh - Enhanced OS/2 E editor
- Enigma - IDE that can create resources (icons, etc.) as well as edit code
- ENotas - Spanish language Notepad replacement
- Entice Designer - Form design IDE for D language
- ePad - Freeware HTML editor and Notepad replacement
- epcEdit - Freeware multi-platform XML editor
- EPM - OS/2 Enhanced editor
- epoch - A fork of Gnu Emacs 18.x to add graphics support and an ancestor of Xemacs
- Eric - full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python
- Ersatz Emacs - Open source minimal Emacs clone based on MicroEmacs 3.6
- erwin - A simple text editor for Linux
- [essay papers] - Useful help in writing essays and term papers
- EVE - VAX/VMS TPU based editor
- evi - Macro definitions to make VI emulate emacs
- evolvED - Freeware programmer's notepad replacement with syntax highlighting
- ExactWord - Shareware rich text editor with tabbed interface
- Exchanger XML Editor - Commercial cross-platform XML editor
- [Exidy Development PAC]? - Add-on ROM cartridge with editor for developing CP/M applications on the Sorcerer
- Expensive Typewriter - DEC PDP-1 text editor that was arguably the first word processor
- EXPRESS - Programmer's editor for CP/M
- ExtremeEditor - A hex and text editor for MsWindows?? programmers
- ExtremePad - Freeware Notepad replacement with tabbed interface
- ex - The line editor mode of vi
- ez86 - A text editor by and for assembly language programmers
- EZEdit - 4K text editor, written in Assembler
- e - Shareware Collaborative Editor for Windows inspired by TextMate; An earlier E for DOS initiates the E family of editors.
- FaME - Open source German text editor with syntax highlighting and Lua scripting
- Far Manager - File and ARchive Manager for Windows with integrated editor
- FASM - Flat Assembler IDE for Windows
- FastEditor - OS/2 VIO mode programmer's editor with macros and REXX support
- FBide - Open source IDE for FreeBASIC? programming
- fb - Open source, cross platform Binary File Viewer, Editor, and Manipulator
- FCKEditor - Web based editor requiring no local installation
- febooti - Freeware hex editor for Windows
- FED - A Folding Text Editor for Windows, Dos, and Linux.
- fe - Open source folding editor
- FicEdit - French Text editor for PocketPCs?, written in Tcl
- FileAID - A mainframe tool for editing data files
- FillRed - A small and free fixed-length record editor
- FINE - FINE Is Not EMACS, An EMACS-like editor for TOPS-10
- Firefly3 - Shareware IDE for PowerBasic programming
- First Page - Shareware web development editor
- First XLent - Atari word processor
- FlauxText - Tabbed editor written using PyGTK?
- Fox Editor - Text editor based on the SynEdit edit control
- Framemaker - Technical documentation authoring system
- Freddy - An ASCII text editor for Linux using Qt
- Free Java - Freeware programmer's IDE in JAva
- Free Text - Shareware easy word processor for Windows and Mac OS/X
- Freemacs - Open source emacs editor for MS-DOS, extensible in MINT langauge
- FreePascal - Free, open source IDE and compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal
- FrexxEd - Freeware Amiga text Editor
- Freyja - Open source EMACS like editor for MS-DOS and HP palmtops
- Frhed - A free hex editor for Win 9x+
- FS Hex Editor - Modified version of Frhed to work with HexView?
- FSE - Full screen editor on CDC machines running NOS (Network Operating System)
- FSE Plus - IBM mainframe editor, data set manager, file list and job output previewer facility
- FTE - Folding text editor for OS/2, Win32 console, DOS, Linux console, and XWindows
- FTPEditor - Shareware editor for remote edit via FTP
- FTPEdit - Freeware Windows editor to edit files on FTP sites
- FunWrite - Shareware "fill in the blanks" word processor for kids
- Fuzzy Duck Note - Freeware Tray resident note utility with calculator
- FWE - Future Wave Editor - shareware Japanese editor for OS/2
- gbText - Freeware windows text editor with 40 text manipulation functions
- Geany - Lightweight IDE based on GtK2?? toolkit and Scintilla component
- GEdit - The official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment
- GenDoc - An XML editor written in Java
- GEOS Write - Commodore 64 graphical word processor component of the GEOS environment
- ge - Tiny Linux GUI editor using GTK
- Glimmer - Open source text editor for Gnome/Linux?
- gmanedit - Gnome editor for man pages
- GNAT - The GNAT Programming Studio
- GNOME - Another Microemacs derivative
- gnotepadPlus - Open source HTML and text editor for systems using Gtk or Gnome
- GnuEmacs - the big daddy of all EmacsFamily editors (free software)
- GnuEmacs WinCE - Port of Emacs 20.7 to Windows CE
- gobby - Open source collaborative editor for Linux, Mac OS/X, Windows
- GoldEd - Another text editor for Commodore Amigas
- gPHPEdit - PHP/HTML/CSS development environment for Gnome 2.X
- Greenpad - Free, open source Japanese Notepad replacement with Unicode, RegEx?, and Syntax highlighting support
- GridinSoft Notepad - Shareware Windows Notepad replacement with code folding
- Groovy - Shareware hex editor for Windows
- gtk2edit - Open source Unicode editor using Gtk toolkit
- Guiguts - Open source PerlTX? text editor for Project Gutenberg texts
- GV TextEditor - Freeware Text Editor for MS-DOS using Graphic Vision graphics environment
- GwdEditor - Editor for Java, C++, and Euphoria. has tabs, syntax highlighting, and runs in Windows.
- Gypsy - Commercial text editing system from Xerox PARC, based on BRAVO
- GYZEditor - Tree-Structured Rich Document Editor and Viewer
- G - Open source editor for MS-DOS and Unix with WordStar command set, regular expressions, and macros
- HABEdit - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with hex editing
- HABPad - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with hex viewer
- Hackman Suite - A shareware tool package including a hex editor, disassembler, and other functions
- Hack - An open source hex editor with REXX scripting
- Handpad - Donationware tray resident Notepad for Windows
- HandyHTML Studio - Shareware Windows HTML Editor
- HAPedit - Html Asp Php editor
- Haxial TextEdit - Freeware Unicode text editor for Windows and Macintosh
- Helene - A syntax highlighting text editor in javascript.
- Help and Manual 5 - Commercial XML authoring system for Windows
- help - Combination editor/shell/user interface for Bell Labs Plan 9 OS 1st Edition
- Hemlock - emacs editor embedded in CMUCL Common Lisp implementation
- Henshoo - Freeware text/HTML editor for Windows
- HexCmp2 - Shareware Windows hex editor and binary file comparator
- HexDataEdit - Shareware binary data editor for Windows
- HexEdit Mac - A hexadecimal file editor for the Macintosh
- HEXEDIT - View and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII on Linux
- HexEdit - Windows Hex Editor from James Brown
- HexEditorVB - Open source hex editor in Visual Basic
- hexel - An advanced Linux hex editor for character-based terminals
- HexIt - A hex editor for DOS and Windows
- HexSource - A Hex editor shipped with SourceEdit
- HexStar - a freeware hex editor for Windows
- HexTool - A binary file editor with tools
- HexWorkshop - Shareware Hex Development tools for Windows
- HGEdit - Open source Notepad replament written in Java
- HhdHexEditor - a Hex editor for Windows
- hiew - Hex viewer from russia (see also biew)
- HippoEDIT Shareware Windows text editor for power users
- HomeSite - HTML editor, now distributed with Macromedia MX Studio
- HomeText - Atari word processor component of HomePak editor/terminal/file manager package
- HotHTML 3 Pro - Shareware web development platform
- HP EDIT - A standard editor on HP-3000 mini-computers running MPE
- HT Editor - A file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables.
- HtmlKit - (aka HTML-Kit) an HTML editor that's expandable too
- HTMLPad - Shareware Windows HTML/CSS/Javascript?/XHTML editor
- Hurricane - Shareware programmer's editor with tabbed interface and syntax highlighting
- hview - A Linux curses based hex editor designed to work with large (600+MB) files
- HxD - Freeware Windows hex editor handling any size file
- Hybrid Editor XE - ISPF-like editor that runs on OS, DOS,OS/2,Windows, Linux and AIX
- HyperEdit - An HTML editor for OS/X
- (Hyper)Markup - Open source HTML/XML editor/tidier and XML generator
- IbmProfessionalEdit - An IBM text editor for MS-DOS
- ICCF - the text editor for DOS, VSE
- IDA Editor - Full screen editor for CDC-6600 machines running the IDA-CRD OS
- IDE.PHP - Web based editor fror development of server-side code
- IEDIT - Interactive mainframe development environment for APL
- iEdit - OS/2 Editor like E with REXX support and import/export
- IE - Interactive Editor
- igtEditor - A simple HTML editor for PocketPCs?
- IL Textedit - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with RTF and large file support
- iNetWord - Online fully functional word processor
- INI Editor - Shareware Windows text editor for INI files
- Insight - shareware Windows text editor with tabbed interface, outlining, and RTF support
- IntelliJ IDEA - Commercial Java development IDE for Windows, Mac, Linux
- InternetNotePad - Shareware Windows notepad for editing web pages
- inType - Shareware Windows programming editor with tabbed interface
- ISPF - IBM's s390 architecture mainframe editor
- iTeXMac - Integrated TeX environment for Mac OS/X
- J Builder - Borland's IDE for Java programming
- Jano - Open source text editor for the Amiga
- JASSPA MicroEmacs - JASSPA fork of Lawrence MicroEmacs 3.8
- javahexeditor - Open source Hex editor in Java
- Jaxe - A Java based XML editor configurable by XML schema
- JCreator - Programmer's IDE for Java development
- JDarkRoom - Freeware Full Screen Java Text Editor
- JDeveloper - Oracle's Java IDE
- JEDI Editor - Open Source programmer's editor wtitten in Delphi
- Jeditpad - Simple text editor in Java with FTP and Email support
- JEdit - free programmer's editor written in Java (Unix, Windows, many platforms)
- JED - Multiplatform text editor by John E. Davis. Runs on UNIX, VMS, DOS, and Windows platforms.
- JellyFishPro - a freeware editor for PowerBasic programmers
- JellyFishFB - a freeware editor for FreeBasic? programmers
- JERED - Full page text editor for Unix, based on the text editor E from IBM
- Jers Novel Writer - Shareware word processor for Macintosh aimed at long documents
- Jext - Open source text editor written in Java
- je - Open source text editor in Java
- JFE - Jen's File Editor
- jGRASP - a CSE and UML editor
- jim - The precursor to the Sam editor, written by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 OS
- JOE - Joe's Own Editor (Unix, others?)
- Jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
- Jpad - Freeware windows text editor for Java development
- jsvi - Open source web-based editor in JavaScript, modeled on vi
- JuffEd - Open source cross-platform tabbed text editor based on Scintilla
- JujuEdit - Very large file support (opens from disk), 4 binary modes, Win32
- jVi - Vim emulation for the NetBeans and JBuilder Java IDEs
- JWPce - Open source word processor for writing in Japanese
- JWrite - Windows text editor for large files
- J - A Java based text editor
- KAKE PAD - Cross-platform text editor in Perl and Tk
- Kandupidi Tamil Editor - An online Tamil Unicode Text Editor
- KankowskiEdit - Windows-based notepad replacement
- Kate - Unix/Linux?? KDE Editor
- Katy - A text editor for KDE, inspired by UltraEdit
- Kavvi - Freeware multi-language editor for Windows
- KDevelop - Open source development IDE for KDE
- KEDIT - an XEDIT clone for DOS
- KED - editor on DEC RT-11 operating system
- Kephra - Open source Windows text editor based on Scintilla and Perl
- kewlpAd - Freeware skinnable Windows Notepad replacement
- KeyNote - Tray resident text editor, outliner, notepad.
- KFTE - A Qt and KDE port of Marko Macek? s FTE editor.
- KHexEdit - Hex editor for the Linux KDE desktop environment
- Kile - a KDE based editor
- Kinesics Text Editor - Freeware text editor for Windows, DOS and Linux
- Kiss Editor - Tiny console text editor with WordStar key mapping
- Klat - KDE based Linux editor for LaTeX
- KomodoEdit - Editor component of Komodo IDE from ActiveState
- Komodo - ActiveState's IDE for Perl, Python, and Tcl-Tk programming, implemented in Mozilla code
- Kon - Text editor and Notepad replacement with script language
- KPad - Shareware Windows text editor with RTF support, email, and minimize to tray
- Kudaz - a Windows based programmers editor using the SynEdit edit control
- KWord - Open source word processor component of KOffice for Linux/KDE
- KXML - KDE based XML editor for Linux
- Kylix - Borland's port of Delphi to Linux
- LaTeXEditor - An IDE for working in LaTeX
- LatticeScreenEditor - editor that comes with Lattice C compiler and normally known as LSE
- Lazarus - An open source GUI RAD IDE for FreePascal
- Lazy Notepad - Shareware Windows Notepad replacement with tabbed interface and transparency
- Lazy Writer - Early word processor for the TRS-80
- lcc-win32 - A Compiler system for windows
- Leafpad - Simple GTK based editor for Linux
- LedIt - Freeware cross-platform Unicode word processor
- LedLineIt - Freeware cross-platform ext editor
- Leds - A D language text editor
- Lemmy - a ViFamily TextEditor for MsWindows??.
- Leonardo - Freeware C development environment for the Macintosh
- LEO - Python based outlining editor for Windows and Linux
- Letter Perfect - 8 bit Atari word processor
- levee - A tiny vi clone for Linux
- LE - Open source console mode editor for Linux
- lfhex - Linux hex editor for large files
- LGEDIT - Freeware DOS text editor with dual windows and calculator (12KB)
- LiCE - a lisp editor like Emacs
- Lied - Open source cross-platform editor for Lilypond code
- Light PHP Edit - Open source Windows PHP editor based on the SynEdit edit control
- LightPad - Shareware web development editor
- LINED - DEC Line Editor for Disk Files - a precursor to SOS, running on the PDP-6
- Liquid Story Binder XE - Shareware Windows portable writer's IDE
- LispWorks - Commercial Common LISP development IDE
- Literary Machine - An IDE and database for creative writing
- Loadngo Xml - Open source tool for working with XML files, providing a tree view of the document, and XSLT coding support
- LogEdit - Freeware ANSI text editor for editing log files
- LopeEdit - for Windows, free version available
- LPEX - A language sensitive editor that runs on OS/2
- LPE - Lightweight editor for Unix with embedded script language
- LSE - LanguageSensitiveEditor - VAX editor written in TpuLanguage.
- LucED - Lucid Editor for X11
- LugaruEpsilon - Powerful Windows programmer's editor
- LyX - Open source cross platform document processor with embedded TeX typesetting
- MacVim - Open source port of the Vim editor to the Macintosh
- MadEdit - Cross-platform text and hex editor with syntax highlighting and RegEx? support
- Madhyam - Freeware Windows editor for writing in Hindi using Devangari characters
- Magic CPlusPlus - Commercial C/C++ IDE for Linux, Unix, Cygwin
- Magic Editor - Shareware syntax highlighting editor for Windows
- MagicWand - An MsDos text editor
- ManEdit - A specialized editor for Unix man pages
- MarinerWrite - Shareware word processor for Mac OS/X
- MaxIDE - Open source IDE for programming in BlitzMax?
- MBEDIT - an AEDIT like editor for multiple platforms. Open Source.
- Mcedit - Text editor component of Linux Midnight Commander file manager
- mcedit - Web based text editor
- MDI Editor - Freeware OS/2 MDI editor allowing more than one file to be edited at a time
- MDINotepad - Windows-based Notepad replacement
- ME2 - Mutt Editor II, an Emacs variant with a hybrid macro language
- medit - Freeware text editor that can combine documents, as a worksheet
- MED - German shareware Windows programmer's text editor
- meep - a wily like text editor in Ruby
- Memo PLUS - Shareware replacement for Palm OS Memopad
- MEMO - Freeware Notepad replacement with syntax highlighting
- MemPad - Freeware Notepad replacement with an index tree
- MetaPad - fast, powerful replacement for Notepad (Windows, free)
- ME - Martin's Editor, a freeware Notepad replacement for Windows and OS/2
- Mg32 - A derived version of MicroEMACS for PocketPCs?
- MG - formerly MicroGnuEmacs
- mi3htmledit - Open source HTML editor with preview and validation
- Mickey - Open source hex editor using FLTK
- MicroAsm - A simple Windows assembly language editor with build hotkey
- MicroEmacs - emacs editor originally written by Dave Conroy, and extended by Daniel Lawrence and JASSPA. See also MicroEMACS
- Microsoft Publisher - Microsoft's desktop publishing entry
- mide3de2 - Freeware Windows IDE for FST Modula-2 compiler
- mince - Mince Is Not Complete Emacs (DOS)
- mined - a powerful text editor with extensive Unicode and CJK support supporting modern interface paradigms
- mined-MINIX - Open source simple screen editor for Minix
- MinGW Developer Studio - IDE for development using the GCC Compiler suite
- Minimum Profit - Cross-platform programmer's editor with C like script language
- MIView - An XML editor for the Gnome environment
- Mix Editor - Text editor supplied with the Mix C Compiler for CP/M and MS-DOS
- mi - Freeware Japanese Mac editor, formerly MKKEdit
- ML Text Editor - A text editor for writing Tcl code, written in TclTk
- MLEditor - Shareware multi-language Unicode editor intended for Chinese text editing
- Mmrnmhrm - Open source IDE for D programming language
- '''MODIFY? - MIT CTSS Line replacement editor for 12-bit files used with MEMO (1963)
- Momentum Writer - Freeware Windows "typewriter for your PC"
- Mondrian - Open source IDE for Ruby Development, written in Ruby
- Monkey Studio - Open source, cross-platform IDE for QT4 development
- MoonEdit - A collaborative text editor
- morla - An open source editor for RDF files
- MorphEd - An editor for MorphOS
- Motor - Open source console mode editor for Linux with CVS integration
- Mousepad - Default text editor for the Xfce windowing environment
- MSEdit - Mateusz's Saucy Editor - freeware MS-DOS editor
- mtScript - An open source multi-lingual text editor
- Multics Emacs - Emacs implementation on Multics by Bernard Greenberg
- Multidoc - Freeware Windows editor with encryption, RTF support, and web browsing
- MultiEdit - commercial programmer's editor for Windows (DOS no longer sold)
- MultiWrite - Strategic Software word processor for Coleco ADAM
- mxedit - A text editor in TclTk based on John Ousterhout's original
- MyDevStudio - Shareware Windows text editor with IDE features
- MyEclipse - Programmer's IDE written in Java, derived from Eclipse
- MyEditor - Open source editor built as demo for Delphi Scintilla components
- Mystix - Open Source text editor based on the SynEdit edit control
- MyPad - Open source editor based on ICSharpCode?.TextEditor control
- MyTextFile - Simple web hosted text file editor using Google API
- M - Microsoft PWB editor
- n-squared - Open source Windows Notepad replacement with tabbed interface and encryption
- nano - a GPL version of pico
- NAntBuilder - Shareware IDE for the NAnt process automation tool
- Neatpad - Open source Unicode text editor demonstrating Win32 coding techniques
- NEdit - A graphical editor for Unix, keys mostly from CUA, X and Win/Mac?
- NetBeans - Sun's open source Java IDE
- Netpadd - Free Notepad replacement for web development
- NevadaEdit - see also UtahEdit
- NewWord - Enhanced clone of WordStar with more functions
- Ne - "No Edlin!" freeware MS-DOS EDIT replacement
- NE - The Nice Editor, an open source editor designed for portability and use over limited bandwidth connections
- NE-ICL - Text editor on ICL mainframes developed at the University of Cambridge
- nfte - A minimal, ncurses based version of Mario Macek's FTE
- Ng - Japanese port of MG for Win32 and other platforms
- NgEdit - Next Generation text editor
- Nisus - An Apple/Mac?? wordprocessor that doubles as a text editor
- NNED - NetNotepad?? freeware syntax highlighting Notepad replacement
- NortonEditor - DOS editor that came with Norton Utilities
- NotaBene - Windows word processor based on the old XyWrite product, aimed at scholars
- Notable - Open source note taking application for Windows
- Notae - Shareware note-taker/organizer for Mac OS/X 10.4 or better
- Notebook Editor - A simple Notepad style editor in TclTk
- NoteCase - Open source, cross platform hierarchical note manager
- NoteKeeper - Outliner for windows
- NoteMaster - Freeware text/code editor for Windows, extensible with XML and VBScript
- Notepad And One Half - Freeware enhanced Notepad replacement and Rich Text editor
- Notepad Deluxe - Freeware windows Notepad replacement with RTF support
- Notepad ProPlus - Free Notepad replacement with tabbed interface and skinnable appearance
- Notepad2 - Freeware Notepad replacement with syntax highlighting
- NotepadEx - A fast Notepad replacement
- NotePadPlusPlus - Free programmer's folding editor (Windows) (aka N++ or Notepad++)
- NotepadsPlus - Freeware replacement for Windows 3.X Notepad
- NotePadSX - A free NotePad replacement with tabbed, colored windows!
- NotepadX - A free, open source tabbed Notepad replacement
- Notepad - A Windows Notepad clone for PocketPCs?
- NotePad - The original Windows text editor
- NotePare - Freeware classic text editor for Windows
- NotePlus - Freeware Windows 95 Notepad replacement
- NoteScribe - Shareware Windows note taking utility with hierarchical outlining
- NotesPad - free tray resident Windows Notepad replacement
- NoteTab - 3 editors for Windows (1 free, 2 commercial)
- NoWinEd - Freeware Amiga text editor
- npad2 - Freeware Wiondows programmer's editor with syntax highlighting
- NStudio - Free, open source text editor in C# and .NET
- NTED - Improved TED
- Nuance - A text editor for HP/C devices running WinCE??
- nuTPU - a TPU clone
- nvi - new vi (a ViFamily editor.)
- NVu - a WYSIWYG HTML editor
- O26 - Full screen editor for the CDC-6000
- o3one EDT - Open source EDT clone for Linux, OZONE, and VMS
- OASIS Edit] - Line editor running under the OASIS OS of Phase One Systems
- OcamlTeX - Open source LaTeX editor for Gnome written in Objective Caml
- Oceantiger Editor - Freeware source code editor and Java IDE for Windows
- Ocolon - a browser based editor featuring matrix calculation
- ODpad - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with MDI interface and Rich Text support
- OmegaEdit - Shareware Windows editor for CSS and PHP
- OmelettePad - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with tabbed interface and scripting
- Open Office Write - word processor of [OpenOffice??.org]
- Open Perl IDE - Open source Windows IDE for Perl development.
- OpenEditor - Open source editor for SQL and other files
- OpenWatcom Vi - A Vi-like editor included with the OpenWatcom C++/F77 development environment.
- OpenXML Writer - Open source editor for creating WordprocessingML? (.docx) files
- OptiPerl - Shareware Windows IDE for Perl development
- origami-2.02 - A folding editor for structured languages
- Origami - A folding editor for AtariST?, Minix, and SunOS?
- Origami for Linux - A folding editor for Linux
- Origami for Windows - A folding editor for Windows
- OSPedit - Open source text editor component of a collection of DOS extenders
- Osymo Editor - Smartphone text editor/notepad
- OutPlus - an outline editor
- Oxygen - Mac OS/X XML/XSLT editor
- PabloDraw - Open source editor for ASCII/ANSI art files
- pad for Unix - Text editor for Unix, inspired by Logitech's old point editor.
- Pada - Open Source Windows Notepad replacement with transparency support
- PadPlus - a notepad replacement for Windows
- Pad - text editor with image viewer and word processing built-in.
- PadPaper - Open source Notepad replacement
- PADRE - Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment
- Page Four - Shareware Windows outliner and tabbed word processor
- Pallavi - Open source Windows Notepad replacement with Plugin support
- PalmEd - Open source Java based text editor for PalmOS devices
- Papel - Freeware Windows writer's editor and story organizer
- Pathetic Writer - Open source word processor component of SIAG Office for X-11
- PaperClip - Word processor for Commodore and Atari systems
- PB SED - Public domain editor for Power Basic coding
- Pc XEDIT - Freeware Windows clone of VM XEDIT
- pcedit32 - an 'E' editor clone
- PcWrite - An influential early shareware word processor/editor by Jim Button
- PDF - IBM mainframe editor (not the Adobe(tm) product)
- PDT-DOS - A specialized editor for DOS handling enormous files (up to 2 gigabytes)
- PDT-Windows - A specialized editor for handling enormous files (up to 18 quintillion bytes)
- PE(Personal) - IBM Personal Editor (PC-DOS 1.x)
- pe - Open source editor for BeOS/Haiku?
- PE2 - IBM Personal Editor II (PC-DOS 2.x & up)
- PE32 - Windows console mode IBM Personal Editor replacement
- Peach Text - Word processor for CP/M systems, bundled with Peach Calc
- Peacock - An HTML Editor for Gnome
- PEDIT - Freeware MS-DOS replacement for DOS EDIT
- pedit - Advanced PalmOS? memo editor
- Perfect TextEdit - Freeware Windows text editor with MDI interface
- PerfectWriter - Word processor based on MOTU's Mince
- Perisoft Brief Freeware Windows clone of the original Brief editor
- Perl Code Editor - Freeware Perl code editor
- Perl Editor - Shareware Windows editor for Perl coding
- Perl Scripting Tool - Commercial Notepad replacement with Perl editing features
- Perl Studio - Commercial Windows Perl development environment
- PerlBuilder - Commercial IDE for Perl development
- PerlExpress - Freeware Perl IDE
- PerlWiz - Shareware Perl development IDE
- Peter's XML Editor - Freeware XML editor for Windows
- Peter - Open source Programmers Extensive Text Editor
- PE - IBM Professional Editor
- PFE - Programmer's File Editor (free, Windows)
- PhDm Editor - Open source Linux console editor
- PHP Designer - Commercial PHP development IDE with lite freeware version
- PHP Rite - PHP Rite - Shareware Windows PHP editor
- PHP Studio - Commercial Windows PHP development environment
- PHPEdit - Shareware windows PHP editor with extension capability
- PhpEd - PHP specific text editor
- PHPExpert - Shareware PHP/Perl? development IDE for Windows
- Phranc Pedit - Freeware windows Notepad replacement
- Pico - A member of TinyEditors for Unix; see nano
- PIDA - Open source IDE written in Python and GtK2??
- PLSQLDeveloper - Editor for editing PL/SQL and working in a Oracle database
- Pocket Text Editor - Freeware plain text editor for PocketPCs?
- PocketNotepad - A Windows Notepad style editor for PocketPCs?
- Point - Early mouse-driven editor for MsDos
- Pollo - A treeview XML editor
- PolyEdit - An alternative to Microsoft Word
- Poseidon - An editor for D written with DWT
- PowerEdit - Shareware Windows text editor
- PowerPad - Freeware Vista-compatible text editor
- PowerWriter - Word processor for writers, adding tools for story development
- POW - Programmer's Open Workbench - An IDE for Modula2 and Java development
- Preditor - Formerly the Sage Professional Editor, from Compuware
- PrEditor - Windows programmer's editor
- PrestoEdit - Windows text editor with tabbed interface, syntax highlighting, spell check, thesaurus
- PrimalScript - for Windows. Has special support for writing Windows batch scripts and WSH.
- Private Notepad - Shareware windows Notepad with 256 bit encryption
- ProfessionalNotePad - windows based text editor
- Programmer Studio - Commercial programmer's IDE for Windows
- Programmer's Notepad - Free, open source text editor for coders
- Prolix - Text editor for Windows
- Pronotepad - Open source Windows Notepad replacement with tabbed interface
- Protext - Text editor originally for Amstrad, ported to other platforms
- Proton IDE - Shareware Windows IDE for PICBASIC development
- PSPad - powerful programmer's and HTML editor (free, Windows)
- PVIC - A portable Vi clone based on Stevie
- PWB - Microsoft Console mode IDE included with PDS and MASM
- PWEditor - Open source personal web development editor
- PyGTKEditor - Open source text editor for handheld devices
- Pymacs - Gnu Emacs extensions to use Python as a scripting language
- PyPE - Python-centric text editor that uses the Scintilla component
- PyRoom - Distraction-free writing, fullscreen editor, written in PythonLanguage
- PyScripter - Open source Python Integrated Development Environment, written in Delphi
- PythonCardEditor - Open source text editor component of Python Card GUI builder kit
- Q10 - Freeware full screen Windows text editor aimed at writers
- Qeditor - IBM mainframe editor that runs in CICS instead of TSO
- QEdit - A text editor for HP-3000 systems running MPE, Linux, and Windows
- QEDIT - powerful shareware editor for DOS; morphed into TSE-Jr. TheSemwareEditor
- qed - A line editor which is an ancestor of ed and vi
- qed-pascal - A tiny opensource, fullscreen text editor written in Pascal.
- qedx - Standard editor on Multics systems
- QE - A PE2 clone for U*NIX
- Qemacs - lightweight full-featured Emacs clone by Fabrice Bellard
- qjot - A lightweight USB compatible Wordpad replacement
- QMWEdit - Open source editor using Qt toolkit
- QtCreator - Open Source IDE for Qt development
- Quanta - a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux
- Quark Xpress - Desktop publishing for the Mac and Windows
- QuickEditor - very small, free Windows editor
- QuickEdit - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with MDI interface
- QuickSharp - Open source IDE based on Scintilla for C# development under .NET 2.0
- QuillTex - Open source, cross-platform LaTeX development IDE in QT4
- Quincy - Free, open source simple IDE for C/C++ programming
- QuteCSound - Open source IDE for CSound development
- Qwined - Freeware Windows multilingual technical editor
- RabtPad - Open source editor for Arabic scripts in Java
- RadEditor - An HTML editor
- RadRails - Open source Ruby on Rails IDE based on Aptana Studio
- Randy's Notepad - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with RTF and large file support
- Rapid CSS Editor - Shareware Windows editor for CSS development
- RapidPHP - Shareware Windows PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editor
- RavitzEditor - An MsDos editor.
- RecordEditor - Data file Editor for Windows / Linux
- REd0 - Rabbadak's Editor, a text editor in Tcl/Tk?
- RED - Richard's Editor, a derivative of ecce
- Red - Text editor for VAX/VMS systems, written in STOIC, a variant of FORTH
- Relo - Free, open source Windows IDE for Borland C++ and GCC/MingW32??? compilers
- RemotePad - Freeware text editor with FTP client
- RexEdit - Open source, cross-platform editor with templates and project management
- REXX Programmer Center - Freeware Windows IDE for REXX development
- RHIDE - An IDE for DJGPP and other GNU based systems
- RichEditor - Commercial browser-based WYSIWYG online html editor.
- RichTextEditor.NET - Commercial Rich Text and HTML editor for ASP programming
- RichText - Open source IE based HTML edit control
- RimStar - a Windows and OS/2 editor.
- RJTextEd - RJ TextEd, a Unicode text editor for Win32
- RockEdit - Rocksoft portable editor, for use on machines that have a C compiler, but don't have a very good (or familiar) text editor.
- Roden Web Editor - Freeware Windows editor
- Rogsoft NotepadPlus - Freeware windows Notepad replacement witn MDI interface
- Ropeide - a python refactoring IDE, opensource, written in PythonLanguage
- ROSCOE - Computer Associates mainframe development environment
- rospell - Open source cross-platform UTH-8 text editor
- RoughDraft - shareware text editor for writers, editors, playwrights
- RText - Programmer's Text Editor written in Java
- RubyMine - Commercial IDE for Ruby on Rails development
- RuneText - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement
- SageProfessionalEditor - Commercial text editor for DOS and Windows with an awk-like MacroLanguage.
- SAID - Text editor for #nix emulating Data General mini-computer SED editor
- Sakura - Open source Windows JApanese language text editor
- Sally - Open source C++ IDE written in C# for .NET 1.1
- sam - Plan 9 text editor
- SavageEd - Free, open source Notepad replacement
- SayPad - Talking text editor for the visually impaired
- Schematics - Freeware Windows validating XML ditor
- Schmortopf - Open source Java development IDE
- SciTE-st - Open source fork of SciTE using Lua as scripting language and dynamic lexing
- SciTE4D - Open source editor for D language, based on Scintilla
- SciTE - text editor that uses Scintilla component.
- SciViews-K - Open source GUI for the R statistics package, implemented as a Komodo Edit extension
- Screed - Screen editor from Edinburgh Regional Computing Center
- Screem - Open source Gnome web development editor
- Scribes-Gnome - General purpose text editor for Gnome desktop
- Scribes - Python editor for Linux
- Scribus - Open source, cross-platform desktop publisher
- ScrIDE - Freeware OS-X based IDE for scripting languages
- Script Editor - Shareware Windows scripting editor for VBS and JScript
- Scrivener - A word processor and project management tool for writers
- Scroll - Scope editor for DEC PDP-8 systems
- ScrypTik - Shareware JavaScript editor for Windows
- Secure Notepad - Open source Windows Notepad with encryption, written in Delphi
- Sedit - Xedit clone for Windows and Unix/Linux??
- SEDT - an EDT clone for PC and Unix platforms
- SED - Editor supplied with Data General mini computers running AOS
- sed - Unix stream editor (lots of clones available.)
- see - DeSmet SEE text editor
- SEG - Freeware Windowe editor for PHP scripting
- Sensible Note Taker - Shareware Windows note taking utility with tabbed interface and RTF support
- Serif PagePlus - Budget desktop publishing for Windows
- SetEdit - Editor component for RHIDE IDE
- SEU - IBM iSeries (i.e. AS/400)Source Editor Utility
- SeX - Simple text editor for X-Windows
- se - Open Source Georgia Tech Screen Editor
- ShadyTXT - Free, open source Notepad replacement with Unicode support
- SharpDevelop - The Open Source Development Environment for .NET
- shed - Hex editor for unix/linux using ncurses and pico interface
- SHH ED - Tiny freeware DOS text editor with Wordstar command set and limited mouse suport
- SiEd - Programmer's editor for PalmOS
- Silver Editor - Freeware cross-platform Notepad replacement
- SimpEdit - Freeware Notepad replacement with syntax highlighting
- Simredo - Freeware Java Unicode editor
- Singlish - Freeware Windows text editor for Sinhala
- SkEdit - a Web editor
- SkimEdit - small editor with high capacity
- sled - Sam's little editor
- SLED - simple line editor
- SlickEdit - Windows, Linux, System/390 Linux
- Slim - Yossi Gil's big brother to Terse
- smalled - Text editor for OS/2 Presentation Manager
- SmartWriter - Coleco ADAM word processor
- SmEdit - Compact shareware text editor for Windows
- SSB Text Processor - Editor for Smoke Signal Broadcasting's Chieftain 6809 based Micro
- Smultron - an OS/X text editor
- SoftBench - An IDE for HP-UX code development in C, C++, and Fortran
- SOS - Line editor for DEC PDP-11s running RSTE/E
- SourceEdit - Freeware Windows code editor and IDE with macro language
- Source Insight - Commercial Windows project oriented editor and code browser
- Source Navigator - Open source source code analyzer and editor
- SPAW - Open source WYSIWYG browser HTML editor control
- SPE IDE - Stani's Python Editor - open source Python development editor using Scintilla edit control
- Speaking Notepad - Shareware Windows Text editor with text to speech capabilities
- SpeedScript - Commodore 64 word processor by Charles Brannon, published in COMPUTE! Magazine
- SpeedTextPad - Shareware Windows text editor for "free-writing"
- SpeedyWrite - Third party Coleco ADAM word processor
- SPFLite - shareware ISPF clone for Windows
- SPFSE - formerly SPF/PC a PC version of ISPF.
- SpineText - Freeware windows text editor for scripting and web development
- Sprint - Borland Intl's commercial MS-DOS qword processor, based on MOTU's Final Word 2
- SrcEdit - Source code editor for PalmOS? OnBoard?? C package
- StenoPad 2 - Freeware Windows RTF editor with spell check
- StepCore Editor - Open source text editor in Java
- STET - "STructured Editing Tool", a folding editor for VM/CMS
- Stevie - Small vi clone originally written for the Atari ST and ported to other platforms
- STOPGAP - Early line editor for DEC PDP systems, ancestor of SOS
- StoryMill - Shareware novel writing software for Mac OS/X
- StorYBook - Open source, cross-platfom story writing software
- Storyist - Shareware Macintosh story development tool for novelists and screenwriters
- StrongED - A programmer's text editor for RISC OS
- Stylus Studio - Commercial XML editor
- SubEthaEdit - Editor built with Cocoa for Mac OS X
- Sublime Text - Shareware Windows text editor for code, HTML, and prose
- SubPad - Freeware light weight USB compatible Notepad replacement
- Sudden View - Text Editor with remarkable dynamic interface (Atari, Windows)
- sue jed - Single User Editor for the Linux Text Console
- SUE - Simple Unix Editor that acts like VDE
- SuperEdi - Windows, free editor for programmers and web designers
- SuperScript - Atari word processor with calculation, amcros, and spell checker
- SuperTed - Rewrite of TED to provide features useful for replying to mail
- SuperWylbur - Enhanced clone of Wylbur
- sUSHi - Freeware Windows IDE editor with syntax highlighting and templates
- svicc - clone of VI for Commodore C64 (!)
- Swift - Tiny DOS programmer's editor from a Russian author
- Sydock Visual Docbook - Freeware beta Docbook editor, exporting to Word or HTML
- Syn Code Editor - An IDE for C development on Freescale 68hc11 and 68hc12 processors
- SynEdit - Open source programmer's editor based on the SynEdit editor control
- Synnote - A simple syntax-coloring Text Editor
- Syntext Serna - Commercial XML editor
- SYN - a syntax highlighting open source text editor
- syuhitu - Open source Japanese text editor for Solaris
- S - screen editor from Edinburgh Computer Science Dept
- T.I.A.H. - "Tiah Is A Hex editor" open source hex editor for Linux
- TablePad - Open source editor for structured text files
- TabPad BG - A tabbed Windows Notepad replacement with RTF support
- TabPad - A tabbed Windows Notepad replacement, with source available
- TalkWrite - RiscOS word processor designed for younger uzsers
- TaterEdit - A cross-platform text editor (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
- TCD - a java-based editor that feels like an IbmEditorFamily mainframe editor
- TCLTextEdit - A text editor and IDE in Tcl
- TDE - Thomson-Davis Editor (public domain, DOS, Windows, Linux)
- TEA - the GTK-based multi-functional text editor
- Tech-Edit - Shareware OS/2 editor with macros, similar to E
- TechWriter - Word processor for RiscOS with eqaution editing
- TECO - Text Editor and COrrecter, a text processing language on DEC systems
- TED 1.1 - Rewrite of PC Magazine's TED, to handle Unix line endings
- Ted for Linux - Free text editor for Linux
- ted for Multics - Extended version of qedx
- Ted for NT - Free text editor for NT
- Ted for X - A small, powerful open source text editor for X-Windows
- TED Notepad - A free Windows Notepad replacement
- TED-OS2 - Tom Kihlken's TED editor for OS/2
- Ted2 - Rewrite of PC Magazine's TED, adding character search, and ability to enter extended ASCII chars
- Ted3 - Rewrite of PC Magazine's TED, adding WordStar compatibility and other features
- TedL - An easy rich text processor for Linux
- TEDNASM - PC Magazine's TED 1.0, based on source code converted to Netwide Assembler (NASM) format
- TedPlus - Rewrite of PC Magazine's TED, adding a few features
- TED - Tom Kihlken's tiny (3k) PC Magazine text editor for DOS
- TejpWriter - PalmOS? text editor for memos/doc files/zText files/ASCII files
- TeksNotes - Freeware plain text editor for Windows Mobile Smartphones
- Tempus - Shareware text editor for the Atari SI
- Tentacle - Experimental editor to test future directions for Scintilla
- Tera TextEditor - Freeware multi-function Windows text editor
- Terse - Yossi Gil's rewrite of TED to use Brief command set
- Tex-Edit Plus - Shareware scriptable text editor for the Macintosh
- TeXmacs - Gnu Emacs with support for the TeX typesetting language
- TeXMaker - Open source Cross-platform LaTeX IDE
- TeXMakerX - Fork of the TexMaker? LaTex IDE
- TeXnicCenter - Open source LaTeX IDE for Windows
- Text Editor 1.0 - Simple text editor written in Java
- Text Master - Freeware windows plain text editor and Notepad replacement
- Text Tree - Shareware outline based editor for writers
- TextAdept - Extensible open source editor using Lua
- TextEdit - Freeware Notepad replacement and web editor
- TextEd - A texteditor for Windows
- TextForge - Text editor for Mac OS X, written using the Cocoa API
- TextHawk - Code editor with syntax highlighting for Windows
- Textit - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement
- TextMate - Commercial Mac OS/X editor with outlining
- TextMorph - A text reformatter and simple text editor
- TextPad - A Windows based text editor
- Textplorer - Syntax highlighting editor that colorizes structured data files (CSV, tab-delimited, etc.)
- TextRoom - A cross platform full screen text editor for writers
- TextShield - Freeware compact Rich Text editor
- TextTrix - General purpose text editor written in Java
- TextViewer - Freeware Windows Notepare replacement with RTF
- TextWrangler - Freeware text editor for the Macintosh, from the authors of BBEdit
- TexT - An open source text editor for PalmOS
- TE - Ferguson's Tiny Editor for DOS (WordStar style)
- TheGun - Tiny text editor in MASM
- TheSemwareEditor or TSE-Pro - Windows programmer's editor. See http://www.semware.com
- Thesistant - Open source editor designed for thesis writing
- THE - The Hessling Editor
- TIA - "Tiny IDE for Ada/Anything?" open source text-mode IDE
- TickleText - Open source text editor for Linux written in TclTk
- tIDE - Open source , cross-platform Jave development IDE
- TigerII Minipad - Freeware notepad replacement with syntax highlighting and regular expressions
- Tinn-R - Tinn Is Not Notepad enhanced for use with the S language
- Tinn - Tinn Is Not Notepad, a free, open source Windows Notepad replacement
- TintWare - Emacs clone using Tint language
- TinyHexEditor - Freeware hex editor for Windows
- TinyMCE - javascript editor for embedding in web pages
- TJ2 - Early text formatter for the PDP-1
- TkEdit - A text editor written in TclTk
- TkNotePad - A Windows Notepad style editor in TclTk
- Tkoutline - A cross-platform open source outline editor in TclTk
- TM - Tiny open source MS-DOS editor emulating Emacs, with incremental search and unlimited undo
- Topologi Markup Editor - Commercial validating XML Editor for Windows
- Tomahawk PDF Plus - Word processor creating PDF files as output
- TopGun - an editor written in MASM for Windows
- TotalEditPro - Commercial editor with multi database query analyzer support
- TotalEdit - Windows based freeware editor with code folding, hex editor, unicode support
- tpad - A Tcl text editor by Antonio Bonifati
- TPE - Turbo Powered Editor - Freeware MS-DOS editor based on Borland's Turbo Editor Toolbox
- TPU - DEC Text Processing Utility on OpenVMS
- Transnote - Open source transparent Notepad replacement in C#
- TSC Text Processor - Technical Systems Corp. text editor for SWTPC 6800/6809 based micros
- TSPF - Tritus SPF/PDF (no longer available.)
- tsWebEditor - PHP, HTML, XML web editor (Windows, free)
- TundraDraw Open source, cross-platform ASCII art editor
- TurboBASIC? - Borland's old MS-DOS IDE for BASIC
- TurboC - Borland's old MS-DOS IDE for C
- TurboEdit - Freeware Windows editor with syntax highlighting and code folding
- TurboHex - Commercial hex editor for Windows
- TurboPascal - Borland's old MS-DOS IDE for Pascal
- TurboProlog? - Borland's old MS-DOS IDE for Prolog
- TurboRuby - Commercial IDE for Ruby language development
- TurboText - an AmigaDOS editor (see also NE)
- TVEDIT - Early (1962) video text editor at Stanford University
- tvx - Open source editor emulating vi - predecessor of Vide
- tweak - Open source UNIX hex editor using ncurses
- Twin - split-buffer editor for Acorn BBC Micro and others.
- Twistpad - Shareware Notepad replacement and programmer's editor
- TxEdit - Shareware Notepad replacement with MDI interface and tray support
- TXE - A Java based XML editor using the Oracle Document Object Model
- txtpro - Shareware Windows text editor with tabbed interface and syntax highlighting
- TypeIt - Free Malayalam language editor for Windows
- Typopheus Notes - Freeware Windows text editor and notepad
- TYPSET - Line editor for Project MAC at MIT, running on DEC hardware
- T - on IBM OS/2 disks (DOS version is 9K, OS/2 version is 10K)
- UCSD P-system Editor - Modal source code editor for the several languages supported by the P-system
- ue - Tiny console editor for Linux with WordStar Key mapping
- Ulipad - Open source wxPython powered, programmer's editor
- UltimatePlusPlus - Open source cross-platform C++ development IDE
- UltraEdit - powerful commercial programmer's editor for Windows
- Ulysses - a text editor for creative writers
- UNA - Cross-platform real-time collaborative software development environment
- uni-SPF - The Workstation Group's ISPF clone for Unix and Windows
- uni-Xedit - The Workstation Group's Xedit clone for Unix and Windows
- UnicEdit - Simple open source Unicode text editor for Windows
- UniPad - the unicode text editor
- UniRed - unicode plain text editor for Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP
- uSk - Micro SideKlik? richedit editor written in Assembler (9K)
- UtahEdit - A text editor for MsDos]]''' -- see NevadaEdit for CP/M
- VbsEdit - Shareware Windows editor for VBScript programming
- VCHE - Open source hex editor for Linix and Windows
- VDE - Freeware WordStar style text editor for DOS and CP/M (Windows LFN aware)
- Ve-EDIT - Open source, web hosted source code editor for programmers
- VECCE - Video Ecce (qv)
- VEDIT - fast, commercial large-file programmer's editor (Windows, DOS)
- Ventura Publisher - Former MS-DOS DTP program, now owned by Corel and available for Windows
- Vex - Open source, cross-platform visual editor for XML in Java
- Vide - Open source programmer's IDE by Dr. Bruce Wampler
- VIDE - VIsual Display Ecce (qv)
- VI Distributed - Open source distributed ncurses based editor
- ViEmu - Vi/vim emulation for Visual Studio, Word, Outlook and SQL Server
- vigor - another vi clone
- VILE - VI editor clone that adds multiple buffers/windows a la Emacs
- ViMate - vi emulation for TextMate
- VimCE - A port of Vim to the PocketPC
- VimOutliner - An outlining editor based on VIM
- Vimperator - Plugin to make Firefox behave like Vi
- VIM - free, powerful programmer's editor (Linux, Windows, many platforms)
- viPlugin - vi emulation for Eclipse.
- Virtual Pascal - Free cross-platform Pascal IDE
- VIrus - Open source minimalist vi implementation taken from Busybox
- Visual MinGW - Open source IDE for GCC Compiler suite on Windows
- Visual PureBasic IDE - Open source IDE for PureBasic? coding
- Visual TeX - Open source Windows editor for TeX code
- Visual Typewriter - Shareware Windows editor with typewriter interface
- VisualStudio - Microsoft's IDE for programming in MS C, C++, VisualBASIC?? and others
- viWord - vi emulation for MS Word (experimental)
- VisualWX - Freeware Windows IDE for RAD development in c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidget
- VIXEN - Open source IDE for XBLite programming, written in XBLite
- VI - free, always on Unix. Available for DOS, other platforms
- Wain - Freeware Windows programmer's editor
- Wavemaker - Visual Ajax IDE for web development
- WeaverSlave - Freeware Windows text editor with MDI interface
- Web Coder - Freeware Windows editor for HTML, ASP, and PHP
- Web Notepad - Shareware Windows editor for HTML coding
- WebStudio - Shareware project oriented web development package
- WebTide - Freeware HTML editor for Windows
- WEVE - Wonderful EVE (an enhanced version of EVE)
- WhizFolders - Shareware Notepad with hierarchal organizer
- WhizNote - Freeware Windows text editor and note organizer
- WideStudio - Japanese open source programmer's IDE
- wikiDpad - Open source cross-platform wiki notebook written in Python
- Wily - A clone of Bell Labs ACME ide/texteditor.
- Win32Forth - Open source Windows IDE for Forth development
- win32pad - A Notepad replacement
- WinAsmStudio - Free IDE for Assembly language development
- WinEdit - Shareware Windows text editor with macro language
- WinEdt - Text editor with a strong predisposition for LaTeX documents
- Winefish - Open Source LaTeX editor for Linux
- WinF - Shareware Windows editor featuring code folding
- Wing IDE - A commercial IDE for development in Python
- WinPad - Freeware windows Notepad replacement with RTF editing
- WinPedit - Windows version of DOS Pedit editor
- WinPTE - Shareware professionsl text engine for Windows
- WinShell - An IDE for LaTeX scripts
- WinVI - Freeware Windows GUI vi clone
- Word Fugue - Shareware MS-DOS word processor from Australia
- WordGrinder - Open source "word processor for words"
- Word Magic - Atari word processor with spell checker
- WordMaster - early predecessor of WordStar
- WordPerfect Editor - Reduced version of the WordPerfect word processor
- WordStar - one of the original Word Processors (DOS, Windows; no longer sold)
- WordTabs - Free tabbed WordPad replacement by the author of NotesPad
- WPE - A text editor for DEC systems modelled after WPS+
- WPS-PLUS - Word Processor component of DEC's All-In-One office suite
- Write3 - Freeware Rich Text Format editor
- WriteAndSet - A WordStar like editor with separate formatter.
- WriteItNow - Shareware writer's too for Windows and Mac OS/X
- WriteMonkey - Freeware full screen editor for writers
- WriteRoom - Text editor for Mac OS/X
- WriterPad - Freeware text editor with outlining
- Writer - The Internet Typewriter, web hosted editor emulating a typewriter
- ws - Wordster, a WordStarFamily editor for MsDos
- wxDesigner - Shareware cross-plarform dialog editor and RAD tool for wxWidgets
- wxKonTEXT - Open source syntax highlighting editor written in Python
- WxDev-CPlusPlus - An extension of Dev C++ for WxWidgets???
- wxWorkshop - Freeware IDE and RAD development tool for wxWidgets
- Wylbur - A mainframe TextEditor (see SuperWylber too)
- wyoEditor - Cross-platform editor based on the Scintilla Edit Component
- X2 - a multiplatform text editor much like SlickEdit and the IbmEditorFamily.
- XAmple - A Java based XML editor
- XCode -Apple's programmer's IDE for Mac OS/X
- XCoral - a GUI based editor for UNIX/Linux
- xed-1.3 - An interactive editor for X using the Athena widgets
- xed-Debian - A Debian Linux TclTk implementation of the standard editor ed
- Xed-TclTk - A TclTk text editor
- Xed-USGS - A text editor, for Linux and Windows
- XeditForJava - A version of the famed XEDIT text editor, written in Java for use as an Applet.
- xedit - original X11 Windows editor
- XEDIT - VM/CMS aka VM/ESA aka zVM system product editor
- XEDIT-NOS - Line editor from University of Minnesota for CDC machines running NOS
- XedPlus - Open source text editor for X11 from SIAG office package
- XED - An XML document instance editor
- xed - original unix ed line editor for X11
- Xeena - A Java based XML editor from IBM
- XEmacs - a spin-off of GnuEmacs, with better support under X -- very nice.
- Xerlin - Extensible Java based XML modelling environment
- xint - Open source Windows Notepad replacement
- XINX - Open source French language XML editor
- XML Copy Editor - Open source validating XML editor
- XML Marker - An XML Editor that uses a synchronized table-tree-and-text display
- XMLBlueprint XML Editor - Commercial XML editor for Windows
- XMLEditor - Open source XML editor for Linux
- XMLEditPro - Freeware XML editor for Windows
- XMLFox - Freeware validating XML Editor for Windows
- XMLmind - Commercial XML editor
- xmloperator - Open source Java based XML editor
- XMLPro - Open source XML editor
- XmlShell - Shareware validating XML editor
- XMLSpy - Altova's commercial XML editor for Windows
- XMLWrench - The simple XML editor
- XNoteBoard - Open source text editor with paint features for tablet PCs
- Xopus - Commercial WYSIWYG XML editor that runs in a browser
- XPad - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement with multiple clipboards
- Xpad - Freeware Windows text editor based on .NET framework
- XPontus - Open source XML editor written in Java
- XRay2 - Free XML editing environment
- xReplace - Open source procedural text editor
- xRope - Open source IDE for Puthon development with GUI builder
- XSed - a Scintilla based editor for XBLite code
- xsdeditor - Open source XML editor intended for XML Schema files
- XStandard - XHTML/CSS editor for Mac OS/X
- Xted - Freeware MS-DOS editor designed for inclusion in Norton Commander but usable stand alone
- xvi32 - Open source hex editor with scripting
- xvi - a portable multi-file text editor based on vi
- Xwpe-ALPHA - A Unix programming environment
- XyWrite - a MsDos word processor with text editing capabilities since it produced clean ASCII files.
- xyzzy - one of emacsen, which has common lisp as macro language
- YeahWrite - Shareware "fill in the blanks" word processor
- yedit - Freeware editor for Fortan programming in 72 column format
- YetAnotherEditor - Linux editor similar to Gnu Nano
- Yikes 2 - Freeware Windows editor modeled after DOS EDIT
- Yi - a text editor written and extensible in Haskell
- yudit - Freeware Unicode text editor for #nix
- yWriter - "Novel writing software" written by Simon Haynes, an author with three novels in print
- Z-Write - Shareware Macintosh word processor for creative writers
- z80emacs - An Emacs editor for the CP/M OS
- ZABED - Freeware DOS text editor. There is a Win console version called z95.
- zap for UNIX - Simple open source hex editor for UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS
- Zap - RiscOS text editor
- ZDE - ZSystem Editor (ZCPR3- based TextEditor)
- Zdocj - Open source text editor for Palm "doc" files
- zedit - Freeware editor for Fortran programming in 132 column format
- Zed - a UNIX text editor from England.
- ZED - a UNIX text editor from Italy.
- ZED-DOC - Editor written in TECO, and later in Mock-Lisp, by Vaughan Pratt
- ZED-IBM - Text editor on IBM mainframes developed at the University of Cambridge
- Zee - a lightweight text editor and IDE for POSIX systems
- zendStudio - Commercial PHP development environment, based on Eclipse
- Zeus - Windows programmer's editor that supports Brief, Emacs, WordStar and Epsilon keyboard mappings.
- Zile - Zile is lossy Emacs
- Zim - Desktop wiki and outliner for Linux
- ZinjaI - Open source Spanish language C++ IDE for Linux and Windows
- ZionEdit - An intuitive, configurable, light and uncluttered programmer's editor
- Zmacs - Editor based on Emacs supplied with the TI Explorer Lisp Machine
- zoinks - Open source programmer's editor for Linux/X11
- zScope - Telnet/SSH client and code editor with 3270 and 5250 emulation
- ZuluPad - "Notepad on crack", in open source and shareware versions
- ZWEI - "Zwei Was Eine, Initially", another Lisp machine emacs version
- Z - Microsoft M editor's other name (a direct source code derivative of Yale's Version of z)
- z - The Yale and Tulane Z Programmer's Editors for DEC Tops 20, VMS, Unix, Linux