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

TinyEditor Discussion

Tiny Editors:

AE - A text editor included with eComStation? and Arca OS by Aaron Lawrence to replace IBM OS/2 System Editor.
AE Asm - A tiny editor for Assembly language coding, with source (16K)
Aedit-PCMag - Small menu driven editor from PC Magazine, with source (47K)
ALE - Tiny line editor implemented in <40 lines of code (52KB)
Anthonys Editor - Small vi-like editor (11k Linux, 22k Windows). 1991 IOCCC Winner.
aoeui - Lightweight open source UNIX/Linux? editor optimized for the Dvorak keyboard layout (56K)
Atto - Smallest functional Emacs in less than 2000 lines of C. (40K)
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 Kleine version is 20K, with a 4K stub)
e.com - MS-DOS editor by David Nye, MD., with ASM source (5K)
ed - Unix ed (Win32 version is about 66.5K)
EditKit - public domain, small editor for Linux extends edx with other keymappings
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.
e-Mtv - Tiny (11k on Windows) open source console mode (curses) text editor for Linux, FreeBSD??, SunOS???, and Windows
EZEdit - Text editor, written in Assembler, with source included (4K)
Freemacs - Russell Nelson's open source 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)
Hexditor.jar - Free and powerful hexadecimal editor written in java, for casual usage (no installation) (53KB)
Kilo - a small text editor in less than 1K lines of code (33KB)
Kiss Editor - Tiny open source 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. Source included. (16KB)
S Miller - Tiny, multi-platform, Vi-like editor. (31k)
Sanos - Included in Sanos, the minimal OS for network server appliances, with key bindings as in DOS editor but with Linux features like piping (28k).
SavageEd - Free, open source Notepad replacement written in Assembler
SavageEd2 - Free, open source Notepad replacement in Assembler, followup to SavageEd
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)
te - Text editor for CP/M (13K)
Ted - Tom Kihliken's PC Magazine utility (3K)
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)
TEDNASM - PC Magazine's TED 1.0, based on source code converted to Netwide Assembler (NASM) format (4K)
TED-OS2 - Tom Kihlken's TED editor for OS/2
TedPlus - Rewrite of Ted to add features (4K)
Terse - Yossi Gil's rewrite of TED to use Brief command set (4K)
TheGun - Tiny text editor in MASM (6K)
Tiny Editor (TE) - Optimized by exe size, memory footprint and system resources text editor
Tiny IDE - Win32 7k editor for use with Masm32 assembler code
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:

E3 IBM - 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)
jupp – jupp (JOE fork, Cygwin/x86 binary is about 320K, Linux/klibc binary about 285K)
mle - (~200K)
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!
RichMasm - 67kB Win32 Unicode editor programmed in assembler and for assembler; uses the RichEdit? control
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