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These are editors that are tiny, by anybody's standards!

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Tiny Editors:

AE Asm - A tiny editor for Assembly language coding (16K)
Aedit-PCMag - Small menu driven editor from PC Magazine (47K)
aoeui - Lightweight UNIX-friendly editor optimized for the Dvorak keyboard layout (56K)
asdfg - QWERTY edition of aoeui (56K)
B2hedit - Tiny hex editor from the author of TheGun, TopGun, and QuickEditor
e3 - Open source, cross-platform editor (Albrecht Kliene version is 20K, with a 4K stub)
e.com - MS-DOS editor by David Nye, MD. (5K)
e-Mtv - Tiny (11k on Windows) open source console mode (curses) text editor for Linux, FreeBSD???, SunOS???, and Windows
ed - Unix ed (Win32 version is about 66.5K)
edx - Tiny editor for Linux GUI with WordStar key mapping (32K)
EDXOR - Freeware Windows Notepad replacement (30K)
ee-Ding - Easy Editor - small Open Source text editor for Linux/Unix??, Windows and MSDOS.
EZEdit - Text editor, written in Assembler (4K)
Freemacs - Russell Nelson's Tiny Emacs clone for DOS (23K)
ge - Tiny Linux GUI editor using GTK (31K)
Greenpad - Open source Japanese Notepad replacement with Unicode, RegEx??, and Syntax highlighting support (50K)
Kiss Editor - Tiny console text editor with WordStar key mapping (5KB)
levee - A tiny vi clone for Linux (37K)
LGEDIT - Freeware DOS text editor with dual windows and calculator (12KB)
NTED - Improved TED (4K)
qed-pascal - A tiny opensource, fullscreen text editor written in Pascal. (16KB TurboPascal, 48KB FreePascal)
QuickEditor - very small, free Windows editor (37K)
RockEdit - Rocksoft portable editor, for use on machines that have a C compiler, but don't have a very good (or familiar) text editor. (16KB)
SHH ED - Tiny DOS editor with WordStar command set and limited mouse support (16K)
Slim - Yossi Gil's big brother to Terse (6K)
SuperTed - Rewrite of Ted to add mail reading features (8K)
Swift - Swift Programmer's Editor (16K)
T - on IBM OS/2 disks (DOS version is 9K, OS/2 version is 10K)
TE - DOS editor like WordStar (10K)
Ted - Tom Kihliken's PC Magazine utility (3K)
TED-OS2 - Tom Kihlken's TED editor for OS/2
TEDNASM - PC Magazine's TED 1.0, based on source code converted to Netwide Assembler (NASM) format (4K)
TedPlus - Rewrite of Ted to add features (4K)
Ted 1.1 - Rewrite of Ted to add Unix file compatibility (4K)
Ted2 - Rewrite of Ted based on TedPlus to add a few features (4k)
Ted3 - Rewrite of Ted to add features (13K)
Terse - Yossi Gil's rewrite of TED to use Brief command set (4K)
TheGun - Tiny text editor in MASM (6K)
TM - a/k/a tmacs, a tiny editor with Emacs keybindings, macros, color menus, configurable tabs, unlimited undo (4K)
TopGun - an editor written in MASM for Windows (19K)
ue - Tiny console editor for Linux with WordStar Key mapping (7K)
uSk - Micro SideKlik? richedit editor written in Assembler (9K)
win32pad - A tiny freeware Notepad replacement (32K)
Xted - Freeware MS-DOS editor designed for inclusion in Norton Commander but usable stand alone (47K)

Small Editors:

E - included in IBM OS/2 (PC-DOS version 72K)
G - Open source editor for MS-DOS and Unix with WordStar command set, regular expressions, and macros (87K)
JOE - Joe's Own Editor (home page says the compiled binary for x86 is about 300K. It's small, but not tiny. -- EricPement)
nano - GNU's Pico clone (Cygwin version for Windows is 119K)
nvi - new VI
Pico - PIne message COmposer (This is actually rather large, because the online manual is compiled into the binary, with the explanation that you couldn't lose the documentation, and that it didn't have any impact when running on a unix system.)
RoughDraft - full-featured Word Processor (complete with spellcheck-- albeit a buggy one) that fits on a 1.44 floppy!
SetEdit -- about 300 KB.
TED Notepad - Freeware Notepad replacement with Unicode support (112K)
VDE - Freeware WordStar style text editor for DOS and CP/M (Windows LFN aware) (90KB)

Note: the arbitrary dividing line between Tiny and Small here is 64KB