Name |
Description |
License |
Acme |
A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike. |
MIT |
Alphatk |
|
Proprietary |
Apache OpenOffice Writer |
Word processor and text editor of the Apache OpenOffice Suite, based on StarOffice's suite. |
Apache-2.0 |
Arachnophilia |
A source code editor which is successor to another HTML editor, WebThing. |
Free software |
Atom |
A modular, general-purpose editor built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript on top of Chromium and Node.js. |
MIT |
BBEdit |
A proprietary text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 |
Proprietary |
Bluefish |
A source code editor with web development features. |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
Brackets |
A modular, web-oriented editor built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript on top of the Chromium Embedded Framework. |
MIT |
CodeWright |
An editing system or source code editor which can be configured to work with other integrated development environment (IDE) systems. |
Proprietary |
Crimson Editor |
A text editor which is typically used as a source code editor and HTML editor. |
Freeware |
CygnusEd (CED) |
|
Proprietary |
E Text Editor |
Default under IBM OS/2 versions 2-4[citation needed]. |
Proprietary |
Eddie |
An editor originally made for BeOS and later ported to Linux and macOS. |
Freeware |
EmEditor |
extensible commercial text editor which supports Unicode, syntax highlighting and vertical selection editing, editing of large files (up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion lines) |
Proprietary |
Epsilon |
A programmer's text editor modelled after Emacs. |
Proprietary |
FeatherPad |
A lightweight editor based on Qt. |
GPL-3.0-or-later |
Geany |
A fast and lightweight editor – IDE, uses GTK+. |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
gedit |
Former default under GNOME until GNOME 42.[13] |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
GNOME Text Editor |
Default under GNOME from GNOME 42 onwards[14] |
GPL-3.0-or-later |
GoldED (text editor of Cubic IDE) |
|
Proprietary |
HxD |
An editor for huge files, working with both binary data and texts. |
Freeware |
iA Writer |
A multi-platform Markdown text editor with writing focused feature set |
Proprietary |
jEdit |
A free cross-platform programmer's editor written in Java, GPL licensed. |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
JOVE |
Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs |
JOVE |
Kate |
A basic text editor for the KDE desktop. |
LGPL, GPL |
Kedit |
An editor with commands and Rexx macros similar to IBM XEDIT. |
Proprietary |
Kile |
A user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor. |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
Komodo Edit |
|
MPL-1.1 |
KWrite |
A default editor on KDE. |
LGPL |
Lapis |
An experimental text editor allowing multiple simultaneous edits of text in a multiple selection from a few examples provided by the user. |
GPL-2.0 |
Leafpad |
Default under LXDE.[15] |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
Leo |
A text editor that features outlines with clones as its central tool of organization and navigation. |
MIT |
LibreOffice Writer |
Word processor and text editor of the LibreOffice Suite, based on StarOffice's suite. |
MPL-2.0 |
Light Table |
A text editor and IDE with real-time, inline expression evaluation. Intended mainly for dynamic languages such as Clojure, Python and JavaScript, and for web development. |
MIT / GPL-3.0-only |
mcedit |
A text editor provided with Midnight Commander. |
GPL-3.0-or-later |
Metapad |
Windows Notepad replacement, GPL licensed. |
GPL-3.0-or-later |
MicroEMACS |
JASSPA MicroEMACS |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
Mousepad |
The default under Xfce.[16] |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
Multi-Edit |
|
Proprietary |
NEdit – "Nirvana Editor" |
|
GPL-2.0-or-later |
Notepad |
Default under Microsoft Windows. |
Proprietary |
Notepad++ |
A tabbed text editor. |
GPL-3.0-or-later |
Pe |
A text editor for BeOS. |
MIT |
pluma |
The default text editor of the MATE desktop environment for Linux. |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
PolyEdit |
Proprietary word processor and text editor. |
Proprietary |
Programmer's File Editor (PFE) |
|
Freeware |
PSPad |
An editor for Microsoft Windows with various programming environments. |
Freeware |
RJ TextEd |
|
Freeware |
Sam |
|
MIT |
SciTE |
Cross-platform, multi-user, multi-codepage, multi-language syntax highlighting, area selector, RE find/replace, and very customisable, allowing different font configurations for each syntactic group, user-defined menus and abbreviation expansion. |
HPND |
SimpleText |
Default under Classic Mac OS from version 7.5.[17] |
Proprietary |
SlickEdit |
|
Proprietary |
Smultron |
A macOS text editor. |
Proprietary |
SubEthaEdit (formerly named Hydra) |
|
Proprietary |
Sublime Text |
|
Proprietary |
TeachText |
Default under Classic Mac OS versions prior to 7.5.[18] |
Proprietary |
TED Notepad |
|
Freeware |
Tex-Edit Plus |
|
Proprietary |
TextPad |
|
Proprietary |
TeXnicCenter |
|
GPL |
TeXShop |
TeX/LaTeX editor and previewer.[19][20][21][22] |
GPL-2.0 |
TextEdit |
Default under macOS,[23] NeXTSTEP[citation needed], and GNUstep.[citation needed] |
BSD-3-Clause |
TextMate |
|
GPL-3.0-or-later |
TextWrangler |
Mac-only editor by Bare Bones Software, sunsetted. Final version released 09/20/2016,[24] replaced by free tier of [BBEdit].[25] |
Freeware |
The Hessling Editor |
|
GPL-2.0-or-later |
The SemWare Editor (TSE) (formerly named QEdit). |
|
Freeware |
UltraEdit |
Text and source code editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, FTP, etc., handles multi-gigabyte files. |
Proprietary |
Ulysses |
|
Proprietary |
VEDIT |
|
Proprietary |
Visual Studio Code[26] |
An extensible code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running and version control. |
MIT |
WinEdt |
|
Proprietary |
X11 Xedit |
|
MIT |
XEDIT |
Default under VM/CMS. |
Proprietary |
Yudit |
|
GPL-2.0-only |
Xed |
|
GPL-2.0-or-later |
Zed |
|
GPL-3.0-or-later, Apache 2.0, AGPL-3.0-or-later |