Comparison of text editors explained

This article compares notable text editors. It may not be up-to-date or all-inclusive. Comparisons are between stable versions (not upcoming or beta releases) and are exclusive of any add-ons, extensions or external programs unless otherwise noted.

Other features can be listed via the Category of text editor features.

General attributes

Name	Developer	Initial release	Latest release		Programming language	Cost (US$)	License	GUI	TUI or CLI
			class=sticky-table-none data-sort-type="number"	Version						Date
	Acme	Rob Pike	1993	Plan 9 and Inferno		C
	Alphatk	Vince Darley	1999
	Atom	GitHub	2014			HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++
	BBEdit	Rich Siegel	1992			Objective-C, Objective-C++
	Bluefish	Bluefish Development Team	1999			C
	Brackets	Adobe Systems	2012			HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++
	Coda	Panic	2007			Objective-C
	ConTEXT	ConTEXT Project Ltd	1999			Object Pascal (Delphi)
	Crimson Editor	Ingyu Kang	1999			C++
	ed	Ken Thompson	1970	unchanged from original		C
	Editra	Cody Precord	2007	0.7.20	2013-01-05	Python
	EmEditor	Emurasoft, Inc.	1997	21.3.0	2021-11-24	C++
	epsilon	Lugaru Software	1984	14.00[1]	2020-10-20	C
	FeatherPad	Pedram Pourang	2016			C++, Qt
	FocusWriter	Graeme Gott	2008			C++, Qt
	gedit	GNU Project	2000			C
	Geany	Enrico Tröger	2005			C, GTK+
	GNU Emacs	Richard Stallman	1984			C, Emacs Lisp
	GNU nano	Chris Allegretta	1999			C
	IA Writer	Information Architects	2010.09.22	7.2	2025-08-25	Objective-C (iOS), Objective-C (macOS), C# (Windows), Java (Android)
	JED	John E. Davis	1992			C, S-Lang
	jEdit	Slava Pestov	1998			Java
	JOE	Joseph Allen	1988			C
	JOVE	Johnathon Payne	1983			C
	Kate	KDE Project	2000-12			C++
	KEDIT	Mansfield Software Group, Inc.	1983	1.6.1	2016-12-05	C
	Komodo Edit	Activestate	2007			Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby
	Komodo IDE	Activestate	2001			Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby
	KWrite	KDE Project	2000			C++
	LE	Alexander V. Lukyanov	1997			C++
	Leo	Edward K. Ream	1996			Python
	Light Table	Chris Granger	2012			ClojureScript
	mcedit	Miguel de Icaza	1994			C, Python, PHP, Javascript, Perl, Tcl, Ruby
	Metapad	Alexander Davidson	1999			C
	mg	Dave Conroy	1986	current	2020-07-22	C
	MinEd	Thomas Wolff	1992	2022.27	2022-12-23	C
	MS-DOS Editor	Microsoft	1991	2.0.026
	ne	Sebastiano Vigna Todd Lewis Daniele Filaretti	1993			C
	NEdit	Mark Edel	1991			C
	Notepad	Microsoft	1985	11.2302.16.0		MASM (originally)
	Notepad++	Don Ho	2003-11-25			C++
	nvi	Keith Bostic	1994			C
	Pico	University of Washington	1992	4.64		C
	PolyEdit	PolySoft Solutions	1998	5.4	20100407
	PSPad	Jan Fiala	2002			Object Pascal (Delphi)
	RJ TextEd	Rickard Johansson	2004			Object Pascal (Delphi)
	Sam	Rob Pike	1980s (early)	stable		C
	SciTE	Neil Hodgson	1999			C++
	SlickEdit	SlickEdit, Inc.	1988	28.0.1	2024-01-21	C, Slick-C
	Smultron	Peter Borg	2004			Objective-C
	SubEthaEdit	TheCodingMonkeys	2003
	Sublime Text		2008
	TED Notepad	Juraj Simlovic	2001			C
	Textadept	Mitchell	2007			C, Lua
	TextEdit	Apple Inc.	2001
	TextMate	MacroMates	2004-10-10			Objective-C++
	TextPad	Helios Software Solutions	1992
	TextWrangler	Bare Bones Software	2003	5.5.2	2016-09-20
	The SemWare Editor	Sammy Mitchell	1985-11			C, SAL
	UltraEdit	IDM Computer Solutions	1994	25.0	2018-03-12	C++
	VEDIT	Ted Green, Greenview Data	1980	6.24.2	2015-01-12	Assembly, C
	vi	Bill Joy	1976	3.7		C		or CDDL
	Vim	Bram Moolenaar	1991			C, Vim script
	Visual Studio Code	Microsoft	2015			JavaScript, TypeScript
	XEmacs	Lucid Inc.	1991			C, Emacs Lisp
	XNEdit	Olaf Wintermann	2018	1.5.2	2023-10-05	C

Operating system support

nowrap		Windows	macOS	Linux	BSD	Unix	OpenVMS
nowrap	Acme
nowrap	Alphatk
nowrap	Atom
nowrap	Arachnophilia
nowrap	BBEdit
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT
nowrap	Crimson Editor
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	epsilon		[2]
nowrap	Geany
nowrap	gedit
nowrap	GNU Emacs
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit
nowrap	JOE
nowrap	JOVE
nowrap	Kate
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo Edit
nowrap	Komodo IDE
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Light Table
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	mg
nowrap	MinEd
nowrap	GNU nano
nowrap	ne
nowrap	NEdit
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd
nowrap	Sam
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit
nowrap	Sublime Text
nowrap	TED Notepad
nowrap	Textadept
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler
nowrap	The SemWare Editor
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	Ulysses (text editor)
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim
nowrap	Visual Studio Code
nowrap	XEmacs
nowrap	XNEdit

Natural language (localization)

	Languages
nowrap	Acme	English
nowrap	Alphatk	English
nowrap		English
nowrap	BBEdit	English
nowrap	Brackets	English, German, French, Polish(Outdated), Korean, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish(Outdated)
nowrap	Coda	English, German, French, Spanish
nowrap	ConTEXT	English, German, French, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish
nowrap	Crimson Editor	English
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	EmEditor	English, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish
nowrap	epsilon	English
nowrap	Geany	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
nowrap	gedit	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
nowrap	GNU Emacs	English
nowrap	JED	English
nowrap	jEdit	English
nowrap	JOE[3]	English, German, French
nowrap	JOVE	English
nowrap	Kate[4]	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	KEDIT	English
nowrap	Komodo Edit	English
nowrap	KWrite	English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	Metapad[5]	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	mined	English
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	Nano	English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese
nowrap	NEdit	English
nowrap	Notepad	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
nowrap	Notepad++	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
nowrap	nvi	English
nowrap	Pico	English, Italian
nowrap	PolyEdit	English
nowrap	PSPad	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	RJ TextEd	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	Sam	English
nowrap	SciTE[6]	English, German, French (Outdated (1.72)), Polish, Japanese (Outdated (1.62)), Italian, Dutch (Outdated (1.67)), Portuguese (Outdated (1.63)), Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	SlickEdit	English
nowrap	Smultron	English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	SubEthaEdit	English
nowrap	TED Notepad	English
nowrap	TextEdit	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
nowrap	TextMate	English
nowrap	TextPad	English, German, French, Polish (Outdated (4.7.3)), Japanese, Italian(Outdated (4.7.3)), Dutch (Outdated (4.7.3)), Spanish (Outdated (4.7.3)), Portuguese (Outdated (4.7.3))
nowrap	TextWrangler	English
nowrap	The SemWare Editor	English
nowrap	UltraEdit	English, German, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese
nowrap	VEDIT	English
nowrap	vi	English
nowrap	Vim	Afrikaans, Catalan, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, English(UK), English(US), Esperanto, Finnish, French, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian(Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese(Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
nowrap	Visual Studio Code	English, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
nowrap	XEmacs	English
nowrap	XNEdit	English

Document interface

The following table identifies the following attributes of an editor that describe its user experience with respect to multiple documents:

Multiple instances: Whether multiple instances of the program can be open at the same time for editing multiple files (one in each instance). Applies both for single-document interface (SDI) and multiple-document interface (MDI). Also, applies for a program that has a user interface that looks like multiple instances of the same program (such as some versions of Word).

Single document window splitting: Whether a window can be split to simultaneously view different areas of a file.

MDI overlappable windows: Whether each open document gets its own fully movable window inside the editor environment.

MDI tabbed document interface: Whether multiple documents can be viewed as tabs in a single window.

MDI window splitting: Whether supports splitting the application window to show multiple documents (non-overlapping windows).

Text editor support for common document interfaces

	Multiple instances	Single document window splitting	MDI overlappable windows	MDI tabbed document interface	MDI window splitting
nowrap	Acme
nowrap	Alphatk
	Atom
nowrap	BBEdit
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT
nowrap	Crimson Editor
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	Geany		Plugin
nowrap	gedit		Plugin			Plugin
nowrap	GNU Emacs
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit
nowrap	JOE
nowrap	JOVE
nowrap	Kate
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo Edit
nowrap	Komodo IDE
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Light Table
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	mined
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor
nowrap	Nano
nowrap	NEdit
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++					2 windows
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico
nowrap	PolyEdit
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd
nowrap	Sam
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit
nowrap	TED Notepad
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler
nowrap	The SemWare Editor
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	VEDIT
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim
	Visual Studio Code
nowrap	XEmacs
nowrap	XNEdit

Basic features

	Spell checking	Regex-based find & replace	Encoding conversion	Newline conversion	Multiple undo/redo	Rectangular block selection	Virtual space support
nowrap	Acme	external
nowrap	Alphatk
	Atom						Plugin
nowrap	BBEdit
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets	Plugin		Plugin
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT
nowrap	Crimson Editor	Instant/live (like Firefox)
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	Geany	Plugin						[7]
nowrap	gedit		Plugin				[8]
nowrap	GNU Emacs	Plugin						[9]
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit	Plugin						[10]
nowrap	JOE	Plugin
nowrap	JOVE
nowrap	Kate
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo Edit
nowrap	Komodo IDE
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Light Table	Plugin[11]
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	mg		[12]
nowrap	MinEd
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor
nowrap	Nano
nowrap	ne
nowrap	NEdit	Plugin[13]
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++	[14]
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico
nowrap	PolyEdit
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd
nowrap	Sam	external
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit						[15]
nowrap	Sublime Text							[16]
nowrap	TED Notepad
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler
nowrap	The SemWare Editor
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	VEDIT
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim
	Visual Studio Code	Plugin						[17]
nowrap	XEmacs	Plugin
nowrap	XNedit	Plugin

Programming features

	Syntax highlighting	Function list	Symbol database	Bracket matching	Auto indentation	Auto completion	Code folding	Text folding	Compiler integration
	Acme		external	external						external
	Alphatk
	Atom									Plugin
	BBEdit
	Bluefish
	Brackets									Plugin
	Coda
	ConTEXT
	Crimson Editor
	ed									external
	Editra
	EmEditor		Plugin	Plugin			Plugin
	Geany
	gedit		Plugin	Plugin			Plugin		Plugin
	GNU Emacs
	JED
	jEdit		Plugin	Plugin						Plugin
	JOE
	JOVE
	Kate		Plugin	Plugin						Plugin
	KEDIT			Macro
	Komodo Edit
	Komodo IDE
	KWrite
	LE
	Light Table
	Metapad
	mined
	MS-DOS Editor
	Nano
	ne
	NEdit		Plugin				Plugin
	Notepad
	Notepad++			[18] [19]
	nvi
	Pico
	PolyEdit
	PSPad			Plugin
	RJ TextEd
	Sam									external
	SciTE
	SlickEdit
	Smultron
	SubEthaEdit
	TED Notepad
	TextEdit
	TextMate			Plugin
	TextPad			Plugin
	TextWrangler									Plugin
	The SemWare Editor			Plugin[20]
	UltraEdit
	VEDIT						<
	vi
	Vim		Plugin[21]
	Visual Studio Code
	XEmacs
	XNEdit		Plugin				Plugin

Additional programming features

	CLI shell integration	GUI shell integration	Macro language	Collaborative editing	Large file support	Long line support	Multi-line regex support	Search in files
	Acme			Extensible
	Alphatk
	Atom	[22]		Plugin[23]		~27MB		[24]
	BBEdit					[25]
	Bluefish
	Brackets			Extensible
	Coda
	ConTEXT
	Crimson Editor
	ed				via mkfifo
	Editra					2GB
	EmEditor					16TB
	Geany			Plugin
	gedit				Plugin				Plugin[26]
	GNU Emacs					[27] [28] [29] [30]
	JED					[31]			Plugins
	jEdit					(heap)
	JOE								[32]
	JOVE
	Kate			Plugin		[33]			Plugin
	KEDIT
	Komodo Edit			[34]
	Komodo IDE
	KWrite						[35]
	LE
	Light Table
	Metapad					[36]
	mined
	EDIT (MS-DOS)					(64~300KB)
	EDIT (DR-DOS)					2GB, for as long as there is disk swap space for two temporary files
	Nano
	NEdit
	Notepad
	Notepad++				[37]	2GB[38]	[39]
	nvi
	Pico
	PolyEdit
	PSPad					[40]		with plugin
	RJ TextEd
	Sam								external
	SciTE
	SlickEdit					2TB
	Smultron
	SubEthaEdit
	TED Notepad
	TextEdit
	TextMate
	TextPad					[41]
	TextWrangler					[42]
	The SemWare Editor				Only in special DOS multi-user version	2GB
	UltraEdit
	VEDIT
	vi					~65MB
	Vim				with plugin[43]
	Visual Studio Code				with plugin[44]
	XEmacs
	XNEdit

Key bindings

	Custom	IBM CUA	macOS	vi	Emacs	Pico	WordStar	WordPerfect	Brief
nowrap	Acme
nowrap	Alphatk
nowrap	Atom
nowrap	BBEdit[45] [46]
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets				Plugin	Plugin
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT
nowrap	Crimson Editor
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	epsilon
nowrap	Geany
nowrap	gedit
nowrap	GNU Emacs						[47]	[48]	[49]
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit
nowrap	JOE[50]
nowrap	JOVE							[51]
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Light Table				Plugin	Plugin
nowrap	Kate				[52]
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo Edit
nowrap	Komodo IDE
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	mg
nowrap	mined
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor
nowrap	Nano
nowrap	NEdit
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico					[53]
nowrap	PolyEdit
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd
nowrap	Sam
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit
nowrap	TED Notepad
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler[54]
nowrap	The SemWare Editor
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	VEDIT				[55]
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim		Plugin[56]	Plugin[57]		Plugin		Plugin[58]		Plugin[59]
nowrap	Visual Studio Code				Plugin[60]	Plugin[61]				Plugin[62]
nowrap	XEmacs
nowrap	XNEdit

Notes:

Vim: Custom maps of Ctrl-1 .. Ctrl-9, Ctrl-0 cannot be set, nor is Control-Shift-<char> distinguished from Ctrl-<char>.^{[63] [64]}

Notepad++: Custom shortcuts of Shift-<char> cannot be set, they need an added modifier such as Ctrl or Alt. i.e. SCI_LINESCROLLUP cannot be bound to "Shift-I"as the "Add"button is greyed out.

Pico: Pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc.

Protocol support

	FTP	HTTP	SSH	WebDAV
nowrap	Acme
nowrap	Alphatk
nowrap	Atom
nowrap	BBEdit
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets	Plugin
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT	[65]
nowrap	Crimson Editor
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	Geany
nowrap	gedit
nowrap	GNU Emacs
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit	plugin[66]	[67]	plugin	plugin.
nowrap	JOE
nowrap	JOVE
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Kate
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo IDE	FTP, FTPS, SFTP
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	mined
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor
nowrap	Nano
	FTP	HTTP	SSH	WebDAV
nowrap	NEdit
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++	Plugin for FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP		Plugin
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico
nowrap	PolyEdit
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd	FTP, SFTP
nowrap	Sam
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit
nowrap	TED Notepad	[68]
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler	FTP, SFTP[69]
nowrap	The SemWare Editor
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	VEDIT
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim	[70]
nowrap	Visual Studio Code	Plugin[71]	Plugin (limited?)	Plugin	Plugin
nowrap	XEmacs
nowrap	XNEdit

Character encoding support

The following table identifies notable character encodings that an editor supports can load, save, view and edit text in the encoding without changing any characters. Partial implies that the editor can only convert the character encoding to internal (8-bit) format for editing, some encodings are supported only in some platforms or the editor can only display a character set (such as OEM) by loading corresponding font, but does not support keyboard entry for that character set.

	ASCII	ISO-8859	DOS (OEM)	EBCDIC	UTF-8	UTF-16
nowrap	Acme
nowrap	Alphatk
nowrap	Atom
nowrap	BBEdit
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT
nowrap	Crimson Editor
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	Geany
nowrap	gedit
nowrap	GNU Emacs
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit
nowrap	JOE
nowrap	JOVE
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Kate
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo Edit
nowrap	Komodo IDE
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	mined
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor
nowrap	Nano
nowrap	NEdit
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico
nowrap	PolyEdit
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd
nowrap	Sam
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit
nowrap	TED Notepad
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler
nowrap	The SemWare Editor				Plugin
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	VEDIT
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim
nowrap	Visual Studio Code				[72]
nowrap	XEmacs
nowrap	XNEdit

Right-to-left and bidirectional text

Support for right-to-left (RTL) text is necessary for editing some languages like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish and the mixture of left-to-right (LTR) and RTL known as bidirectional (BiDi). The following table indicates whether an editor supports RTL and BiDi text. Some editors (e.g. Notepad++ 5.1.3) can render bidirectional text but does not support editing it.

	RTL	Bidi
nowrap	Acme
nowrap	Alphatk
nowrap	Atom
nowrap	BBEdit
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT
nowrap	Crimson Editor
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	Geany
nowrap	gedit
nowrap	GNU Emacs
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit
nowrap	JOE
nowrap	JOVE
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Kate
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo Edit
nowrap	Komodo IDE
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor
nowrap	mined
nowrap	Nano
nowrap	NEdit
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico
nowrap	PolyEdit
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd
nowrap	Sam
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit
nowrap	TED Notepad
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler
nowrap	The SemWare Editor
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	VEDIT
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim
nowrap	Visual Studio Code
nowrap	XEmacs
nowrap	XNEdit

Newline support

The following table identifies newline support of editors. The three options are:

CR/LF: Generally, used on Windows.

LF: Generally, used on Unix-like systems (including macOS).^[73]

CR: Generally, used on Classic Mac OS.

	CR/LF	LF	CR
nowrap	Acme
nowrap	Alphatk
nowrap	Atom
nowrap	BBEdit
nowrap	Bluefish
nowrap	Brackets
nowrap	Coda
nowrap	ConTEXT
nowrap	Crimson Editor
nowrap	ed
nowrap	Editra
nowrap	EmEditor
nowrap	Geany
nowrap	gedit
nowrap	GNU Emacs
nowrap	JED
nowrap	jEdit
nowrap	JOE[74]
nowrap	JOVE
nowrap	Kate
nowrap	KEDIT
nowrap	Komodo Edit
nowrap	Komodo IDE
nowrap	KWrite
nowrap	LE
nowrap	Metapad
nowrap	MS-DOS Editor
nowrap	mined
nowrap	Nano
nowrap	NEdit
nowrap	Notepad
nowrap	Notepad++
nowrap	nvi
nowrap	Pico
nowrap	PolyEdit
nowrap	PSPad
nowrap	RJ TextEd
nowrap	Sam
nowrap	SciTE
nowrap	SlickEdit
nowrap	Smultron
nowrap	SubEthaEdit
nowrap	Sublime Text
nowrap	TED Notepad
nowrap	TextEdit
nowrap	TextMate
nowrap	TextPad
nowrap	TextWrangler
nowrap	The SemWare Editor
nowrap	UltraEdit
nowrap	VEDIT
nowrap	vi
nowrap	Vim
nowrap	Visual Studio Code
nowrap	XEmacs
nowrap	XNEdit

See also

• Editor war
• Comparison of word processors
• Comparison of integrated development environments
• Comparison of HTML editors
• Comparison of TeX editors
• Comparison of hex editors
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Notes and References

1. Web site: Epsilon 14 Update Information . 2020-10-22 . Lugaru Software, Ltd..
2. Web site: New Features in Epsilon 13. www.lugaru.com.
3. Web site: JOE - Joe's own editor. JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /po. 23 October 2015.
4. Web site: KDE Localization - Apps » stable » kate.po. l10n.kde.org.
5. Web site: Metapad language plugins. liquidninja.com.
6. Web site: Localised SciTE. scintilla.org.
7. Web site: Geany .
8. Web site: Gedit/Plugins/ColumnMode - GNOME Wiki!. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120111004835/http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/ColumnMode. 2012-01-11.
9. Web site: Virtual space for rectangular selections (at least) . . 13 March 2023.
10. Web site: Selecting Text .
11. Web site: GitHub - rschroll/lt-spelling: Spell check plugin for Light Table.. April 29, 2015. GitHub.
12. Web site: Super User's BSD Cross Reference: /OpenBSD/usr.bin/mg/re_search.c. bxr.su.
13. NEdit supports spell checking via a plugin
14. http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.3.3-release.html Notepad++ 6.3.3
15. SubEthaEdit supports advanced block editing, including multi-line typing and non-contiguous block selections.
16. Web site: Virtual space . 28 March 2012 .
17. Web site: Virtual Space is not implemented. · Issue #13960 · microsoft/Vscode . .
18. Web site: GitHub - ffes/npptags: Universal Ctags plug-in for Notepad++.. March 7, 2019. GitHub.
19. Web site: NotePad++ Plugin. Allows to connect to SQL Servers, execute SQL commands and views results: vladk1973/npp.connections. June 21, 2019. GitHub.
20. Web site: TSE-Pro Files. www.semware.com.
21. Vim has a popular TagList plugin that provides a function list.
22. Web site: Feature Request: Integrated Shell/Terminal Access · Issue #14490 · atom/atom. GitHub.
23. Web site: atom-macros. Atom. 8 June 2022 .
24. Web site: Multi-line find and replace in project · Issue #398 · atom/find-and-replace. GitHub.
25. "Handling large files presents no intrinsic problems for BBEdit, though some specific operations may be limited when dealing with files over 2GB in size." BBEdit FAQs .
26. Web site: Gedit File Search Plugin. oliver.github.io.
27. Web site: GNU Emacs 23.2 NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. .
28. Web site: Buffers. A buffer's size cannot be larger than some maximum, which is defined by the largest buffer position representable by Emacs integers. This is because Emacs tracks buffer positions using that data type. For typical 64-bit machines, this maximum buffer size is 2^ - 2 bytes, or about 2 EiB. For typical 32-bit machines, the maximum is usually 2^ - 2 bytes, or about 512 MiB. Buffer sizes are also limited by the amount of memory in the system..
29. Web site: Does Emacs have problems with large files? .
30. Web site: GNU emacs manual - Narrowing .
31. Web site: The JED Editor. 2009-12-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20120105154439/http://www.fi.infn.it/info/jed/jed.pdf. 2012-01-05. dead.
32. Web site: JOE - Joe's Own Editor. JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md. 23 October 2015. The search covers all loaded buffers..
33. kwrite-devel, Large Files open slowly due to futile Syntax-Highlighting
34. Web site: Macros. docs.activestate.com.
35. Lines longer than ~700 characters frequently cause crashes. KatePart documentation (which is also the KWrite documentation, see here)
36. metapad FAQ, Loading Large Files
37. Web site: Notepad++ - How to Remotely work on the Same File in Real Time. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/iz-SVru1cKo. 2021-12-12 . live. 11 January 2016 . www.youtube.com.
38. Web site: Text limit. January 16, 2019. Community.
39. Web site: Configurable through settings.
40. Web site: PSPad forum / Bug report / Hlášení chyb / cannot open large file. forum.pspad.com.
41. Web site: Edit large mbox files - MozillaZine Knowledge Base. kb.mozillazine.org.
42. "TextWrangler is a RAM-based editor, and it uses system memory to hold open files. TextWrangler also represents open documents as Unicode, which uses two bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS X limitation, this means that you can open files up to 384 megabytes in size." TextWrangler FAQs .
43. Web site: GitHub - FredKSchott/CoVim: Collaborative Editing for Vim.. November 13, 2019. GitHub.
44. Web site: Live Share - Visual Studio Marketplace. marketplace.visualstudio.com.
45. Web site: Bare Bones Software BBEdit Comparison Chart. www.barebones.com.
46. Web site: Bare Bones Software Features. www.barebones.com.
47. pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc. See Pico: A Unix text editor retrieved 20120109.
48. GNU Emacs can have Wordstar emulation, with the command M-x wordstar-mode, as found from ws-mode.el retrieved 20170314. See also the "Emulation" section of the previous GNU Emacs manual. The WordStar mode, however, has been obsolete since GNU Emacs 24.5.
49. Web site: AC.27 Emulation . GNU Emacs manual . 2021-12-06 .
50. Web site: JOE - Joe's Own Editor. JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md. 23 October 2015. JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close imitation of WordStar [...]. JPICO is a close imitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO editor [...]. JMACS is a GNU-EMACS imitation. [...] Key binding tables are defined. You can define as many as you like [...]..
51. Web site: Usenet. www.megalextoria.com.
52. Kate supports an optional VI Input Mode .
53. pico (and nano) uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc. See Pico: A Unix text editor retrieved 20120109.
54. Web site: Bare Bones Software TextWrangler Features. www.barebones.com. 2009-06-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20170811014917/http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/features.html. 2017-08-11. dead.
55. Vedit: Old Unix and QNX versions could emulate Vi 100%. Windows version doesn't come with vi emulation.
56. Web site: GitHub - fabi1cazenave/cua-mode.vim: Make CTRL-ZXCV behave like in Notepad.. February 26, 2019. GitHub.
57. Web site: GitHub - likaci/ViFinder: Vim like Keybinding FileManager for OS X.. October 13, 2019. GitHub.
58. Web site: Vim distribution optimized for writing. Sep 16, 2021. GitHub.
59. Web site: brief.vim - Brief editor key binding emulation in Vim : vim online. www.vim.org.
60. Web site: Vim - Visual Studio Marketplace. marketplace.visualstudio.com.
61. Web site: Emacs - Visual Studio Marketplace. marketplace.visualstudio.com.
62. Web site: Brief Editor Keymap Emulation - Visual Studio Marketplace. marketplace.visualstudio.com.
63. Web site: Vim - General - unable to map ctrl-1. vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com. 2017-11-30. 2017-12-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044447/http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/unable-to-map-ctrl-1-td1186261.html. dead.
64. Web site: Vim - General - How to map (say) Ctrl-Shift-B. vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com. 2017-11-30. 2017-12-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044609/http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/How-to-map-say-Ctrl-Shift-B-td1183582.html. dead.
65. http://www.context.cx Text Editor Features
66. jEdit FTP and SFTP are supported via the FTP plugin.
67. jEdit: "HTTP is supported natively"
68. Web site: TED Notepad. jsimlo.sk.
69. Web site: Bare Bones Software TextWrangler Tour. www.barebones.com. 2019-11-16. 2019-11-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20191129002115/http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/featuresutility.html. dead.
70. Vim Supported via netrw plugin distributed in the standard Vim installation.
71. Web site: Remote Workspace - Visual Studio Marketplace. marketplace.visualstudio.com. 2019-05-09. 2019-05-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20190510121323/https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mkloubert.vscode-remote-workspace. dead.
72. Web site: Support EBCDIC encodings · Issue #49891 · microsoft/vscode. GitHub.
73. Web site: Did Mac OS Lion switch to using line feeds (LF '\n') for line breaks instead of carriage returns (CR '\r')?. Super User.
74. Web site: JOE - Joe's Own Editor. JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md. 23 October 2015. character sets must use LF (0x0A) or CR-LF (0x0D - 0x0A) as line terminators [...]. [...] character sets which use CR terminated lines (MACs) will not yet work..