Editor Families By Family Group

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This list groups editor families by family group, such as architecture or OS

Editor Family Groups

Editors for other micros

AmigaEditorFamily - Editors for the Commodore Amiga
AtariSTEditorFamily - Editors for the AtariST?
CommodoreFamily - Text editors for Commodore Business Machines computers
MacintoshEditorFamily - Editors for Apple Macintosh systems
PalmOSEditorsFamily - Text editors on devices running the Palm Operating System
PocketPCFamily - Text editors for hanhelds running the WinCE/WindowsMobile? OS

Cross-platform editors

JavaBasedEditors - Text editors written in the Java language
PerlEditorFamily - Text editors written in Perl
PythonEditorFamily - Text editors written in the Python scripting language
RubyEditorFamily - Text editors written in the Ruby script language
TclTkEditorFamily - Text editors written in the TclTk script language

Editors for mini-computers and mainframes

DecFamily text editors are popular on VAX/VMS and OpenVMS systems
IbmEditorFamily - Text editors for IBM mid-range and mainframe systems and emulators of them on PCs
MiniComputerFamily - Text editors for things that aren't PCs
MainframeEditorFamily - Editors on mainframe computers

Editors for other operating systems

CPMEditorFamily - Editors for the Digital Research CP/M OS used on early 8bit microcomputers
LinuxEditorFamily - Editors for the Linux operating system
MsDosEditors proliferated in the 1990's. Many have their own Family trees. Others died on the vine.
OS/2EditorFamily - Text editors for IBM's OS/2 operating system
OberonEditorFamily text editors encourage textual re-use in the way they use the mouse.
RiscOSEditorFamily -Text editors that run under RiscOS
UnixEditorFamily - Text editors for flavors of the Unix OS.

Windows editors

AEDITFamily - Intel's text editors were originally used on 8086/8088 processors.
BellLabsFamily editors are centered around the use of RegularExpressions and may include both FullScreen and LineEditors?
BriefFamily editors were popular in the MSDOS days.
CuaFamily editors use CUA (common user access) style of editing
DataEditorFamily text editors are used to edit "flat-files" and other structured data files
DesktopPublisherFamily - Full fledged publishing program that include an editor
EdinburghFamily text editors were written in Edinburgh, Scotland.
EmacsFamily editors derive their structure from the Emacs (both Gosling and GNU) editors.
FoldingEditors - Editors that implement TextFolding
HexEditorFamily editors are used primarily to edit files in Hexadecimal/binary/octal and other representations.
HTMLEditorFamily - Editors for writing HTML code
IDEFamily - Editors that are components of Integrated Development Environments
IntelFamily text editors have been popular as well.
LineEditorFamily - All of the line editors (i.e. not full screen or full window)
MicrosoftWindowsEditors - These are CuaFamily editors but with added Windows specific functionality.
NotepadReplacement editors are replacements for the horribly incomplete MicrosoftNotepad.
OutlinerFamily editors are used to edit trees and other forms of hierarchical data.
REXX-Friendly Editors - Text editors friendly to editing REXX, ooREXX code
RichTextEditorFamily - Text editors capable of editing Rich Text Format files
ScintillaEditorFamily - Text editors built on the Scintilla edit component
ScriptedEditorFamily - Editors extendable with a script language
SpecializedFamily - Text editors for a quite specific purpose or application
SynEditEditorFamily - Editors using the SynEdit editor control
TinyEditors are editors that are full featured but extremely small in size (disk and RAM).
UnicodeEditorFamily - Text editors capable of working with Unicode
ViFamily editors all derive from BillJoy's original Vi text editor at Berkeley. They intersect with the BellLabsFamily
WebHostedEditors run directly off a web page.
WordProcessorFamily - Editors with additional features to control the appearance of a printed page
WordStarFamily of editors were derived from the MicroPro WordStar WordProcessor (as well as the WordMaster editor)
XMLEditorFamily - Text editors for creating XML documents
YaleZFamily - Text editors descended from Yale Z