Comparison of text editors

This article provides basic comparisons for notable text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual products' articles. This article may not be up-to-date or necessarily all-inclusive.

Feature comparisons are made between stable versions of software, not the upcoming versions or beta releases – and are exclusive of any add-ons, extensions or external programs (unless specified in footnotes).

Overview

List of text editors
Name Developer Initial release Latest release Program­ming language Cost (US$) License GUI TUI or CLI
Version Date
Acme Rob Pike 1993 Plan 9 and Inferno C No cost MIT
GPL-2.0-only
LPL-1.02
AkelPad Alexey Kuznetsov
Alexander Shengalts 		2003 4.9.9[1]  2024-10-16 C No cost BSD-2-Clause
Alphatk Vince Darley 1999 8.3.3[2]  2004-12-10 $40 Proprietary, with BSD components
Atom GitHub 2014 1.63.1[3]  2022-11-23 HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++ No cost MIT
BBEdit Rich Siegel 1992 15.0.3[4]  2024-04-08 Objective-C, Objective-C++ No cost for most features, $49.99 for full version Proprietary
Bluefish Bluefish Development Team 1999 2.2.17[5]  2025-03-31 C No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
Brackets Adobe Systems 2012 2.2.1[6]  2023-03-22 HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++ No cost MIT
Coda Panic 2007 Objective-C $99 Proprietary
ConTEXT ConTEXT Project Ltd 1999 Object Pascal (Delphi) No cost BSD-3-Clause
Crimson Editor Ingyu Kang 1999 3.72-r286m[7]  2011-10-01 C++ No cost Proprietary
CudaText UVViewSoft[a] 2015 1.217.5.1[8]  2024-09-05 Object Pascal (Lazarus) No cost MPL-2.0
ed Ken Thompson 1970 unchanged from original C No cost ?
Editra Cody Precord 2007 0.7.20 2013-01-05 Python No cost wxWindows license
EmEditor Emurasoft, Inc. 1997 21.3.0 2021-11-24 C++ $39.99 Shareware
epsilon Lugaru Software 1984 14.00[9] 2020-10-20 C $250 Proprietary
FeatherPad Pedram Pourang 2016 1.4.1[10]  2023-06-12 C++, Qt No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
FocusWriter Graeme Gott 2008 1.8.12[11]  2025-05-14 C++, Qt No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
gedit GNU Project 2000 48.0[12]  2024-09-14 C No cost GPL-3.0
Geany Enrico Tröger 2005 2.1.0[13]  2025-07-06 C, GTK+ No cost GPL-2.0-or-later
GNU Emacs Richard Stallman 1984 30.1[14]  2025-02-23 C, Emacs Lisp No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
GNU nano Chris Allegretta 1999 8.5[15]  2025-06-12 C No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
IA Writer Information Architects 2010.09.22 5.6 2020-12-07 Objective-C (iOS), Objective-C (macOS), C# (Windows), Java (Android) $29.99 Proprietary
JED John E. Davis 1992 0.99-19  2009-12-13 C, S-Lang No cost GPL-2.0-or-later
jEdit Slava Pestov 1998 5.7.0[16]  2024-08-03 Java No cost GPL-2.0-or-later
JOE Joseph Allen 1988 4.6[17]  2018-01-09 C No cost GPL
JOVE Johnathon Payne 1983 4.17.5.5[18]  2025-05-14 C No cost JOVE license
Kate KDE Project 2000-12 25.04.1[19]  2025-05-08 C++ No cost LGPL, MIT
KEDIT Mansfield Software Group, Inc. 1983 1.6.1 2016-12-05 C $129 Proprietary
Komodo Edit Activestate 2007 12.0.1[20]  2020-02-10 Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby No cost MPL, GPL, LGPL
Komodo IDE Activestate 2001 Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby $295 Proprietary
KWrite KDE Project 2000 24.12.1[21]  2025-01-09 C++ No cost LGPL
LE Alexander V. Lukyanov 1997 1.16.8[22]  2021-02-05 C++ No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
Leo Edward K. Ream 1996 6.7.6[23]  2023-12-19 Python No cost MIT
Light Table Chris Granger 2012 0.8.1[24]  2016-01-22 ClojureScript No cost MIT
mcedit Miguel de Icaza 1994 4.8.33[25]  2025-01-23 C, Python, PHP, Javascript, Perl, Tcl, Ruby No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
Metapad Alexander Davidson 1999 3.6[26][27]  2011-05-28 C No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
mg Dave Conroy 1986 current[b] 2020-07-22 C No cost Public domain
MinEd Thomas Wolff 1992 2022.27 2022-12-23 C No cost GPL
MS-DOS Editor Microsoft 1991 2.0.026 Bundled with MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows Proprietary
ne Sebastiano Vigna
Todd Lewis
Daniele Filaretti 		1993 3.3.4[29]  2025-02-06 C No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
NEdit Mark Edel 1991 5.7[30]  2017-02-08 C No cost GPL-2.0-or-later
Notepad Microsoft 1985 11.2302.16.0 MASM (originally) Bundled with Microsoft Windows Proprietary
Notepad++ Don Ho 2003-11-25 8.8.2[31]  2025-06-30 C++ No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
nvi Keith Bostic 1994 1.81.6[32]  2007-11-18 C No cost BSD-3-Clause
Pico University of Washington 1992 4.64 C No cost Apache-2.0
PolyEdit PolySoft Solutions 1998 5.4 2010‑04‑07 $27.95 Shareware
PSPad Jan Fiala 2002 5.5.1[33]  2025-02-05 Object Pascal (Delphi) No cost Proprietary
RJ TextEd Rickard Johansson 2004 15.63[34]  2022-09-29 Object Pascal (Delphi) No cost Proprietary
Sam Rob Pike 1980s (early) stable C No cost LPL (OSI approved)
SciTE Neil Hodgson 1999 5.5.4[35]  2024-12-18 C++ $41.99 for macOS. No cost for others HPND
SlickEdit SlickEdit, Inc. 1988 28.0.1 2024-01-21 C, Slick-C $299 Proprietary
Smultron Peter Borg 2004 12.0.6  2020-01-03 Objective-C $7.99 Proprietary
SubEthaEdit TheCoding­Monkeys 2003 5.2.4[36]  2022-01-08 No cost MIT
Sublime Text Jon Skinner, Sublime HQ 2008 4 (Build 4200)[37]  2025-05-21 C++, Python $99 Shareware
TED Notepad Juraj Simlovic 2001 6.3.1[38]  2021-12-01 C No cost Proprietary
Textadept Mitchell 2007 12.7[39]  2025-06-01 C, Lua No cost MIT
TextEdit Apple Inc. 2001 1.18  2022-10-24 No cost (also bundled with macOS) BSD-3-Clause
TextMate MacroMates 2004-10-10 2.0.23[40]  2021-10-12 Objective-C++ No cost GPL-3.0-or-later
TextPad Helios Software Solutions 1992 9.3.0[41]  2023-08-01 $30.00 (£16.50) Shareware
TextWrangler Bare Bones Software 2003 5.5.2 2016-09-20 No cost Proprietary
The SemWare Editor Sammy Mitchell 1985-11 4.49[42]  2023-01 C, SAL No cost BSD-2-Clause
UltraEdit IDM Computer Solutions 1994 25.0 2018-03-12 C++ $99.95 Proprietary
VEDIT Ted Green, Greenview Data 1980 6.24.2 2015-01-12 Assembly, C $89 standard, $239 Pro64 Proprietary
vi Bill Joy 1976 3.7 C No cost BSD-4-Clause or CDDL
Vim Bram Moolenaar 1991 9.1[43][44]  2024-01-02 C, Vim script No cost Vim
Visual Studio Code Microsoft 2015 1.101.2[45]  2025-06-26 JavaScript, TypeScript No cost Source code: MIT[46]
Binaries built by Microsoft: Proprietary[47][48]
XEmacs Lucid Inc. 1991 21.4.22[49]  2009-01-30 C, Emacs Lisp No cost GPL-2.0-or-later
XNEdit Olaf Wintermann 2018 1.5.2 2023-10-05 C No cost GPL-2.0-or-later

Operating system support

This section lists the operating systems that different editors can run on. Some editors run on additional operating systems that are not listed.

Cross-platform

Text editor support for various operating systems
Microsoft Windows macOS Linux BSD Unix OpenVMS
Acme Partial
[c]
AkelPad
Alphatk
Atom
Arachnophilia
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed Partial
[d]
Editra ? ? ?
EmEditor
epsilon
[50]
Geany
gedit
[e]
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit
JOE
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit ? ?
Komodo IDE ? ?
KWrite
LE Partial
[d]
Light Table
Metapad
mg ?
MinEd
GNU nano
ne Partial
[d]
NEdit Partial
[d]
[f]
Notepad
Notepad++
nvi
Pico
PSPad
RJ TextEd
Sam Partial
[c]
SciTE
[f]
SlickEdit
Smultron
SubEthaEdit
Sublime Text
TED Notepad
Textadept
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
Ulysses (text editor)
vi
Vim
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs
XNEdit Partial
[d][g]
[f]

Natural language (localization)

Available languages for the UI
Languages supported
Acme English
AkelPad English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish
Alphatk English
Atom English
BBEdit English
Brackets English, German, French, Polish(Outdated), Korean, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish(Outdated)
Coda English, German, French, Spanish
ConTEXT English, German, French, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish
Crimson Editor English
CudaText Main: English. Addons: Japanese, French, Polish, Korean, Hungarian (2018), Greek, German (2017), and 9 others
ed
Editra English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
EmEditor English, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish
epsilon English
Geany English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
gedit English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
GNU Emacs English
JED English
jEdit English
JOE[51] English, German, French
JOVE English
Kate[52] English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
KEDIT English
Komodo Edit English
KWrite English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
Metapad[53] English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
mined English
MS-DOS Editor English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Nano English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese
NEdit English
Notepad English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
Notepad++ English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
nvi English
Pico English, Italian
PolyEdit English
PSPad English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
RJ TextEd English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Sam English
SciTE[54] English, German, French (Outdated (1.72)), Polish, Japanese (Outdated (1.62)), Italian, Dutch (Outdated (1.67)), Portuguese (Outdated (1.63)), Spanish, Swedish
SlickEdit English
Smultron English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish
SubEthaEdit English
TED Notepad English
TextEdit English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
TextMate English
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))
TextWrangler English
The SemWare Editor English
UltraEdit English, German, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese
VEDIT English
vi English
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
Visual Studio Code English, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
XEmacs English
XNEdit English

Document interface

Text editor support for common document interfaces
Multiple instances Single document window splitting MDI: overlappable windows MDI: tabbed document interface MDI: window splitting
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk
Atom
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
Editra ? ?
EmEditor
Geany
Plug‑in
gedit
Plug‑in[h]
Plug‑in[i]
GNU Emacs
[j][k]
JED
jEdit
JOE
[l]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE
Light Table
Metapad
mined
[m]
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++
2 windows
nvi
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
RJ TextEd
Sam
SciTE
[n]
SlickEdit
Smultron
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad ? ? ? ?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim
[o]
[p]
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs
XNEdit
Multiple instances Single document window splitting MDI: overlappable windows MDI: tabbed document interface MDI: window splitting

Notes

  • Multiple instances: multiple instances of the program can be opened simultaneously for editing multiple files. Applies both for single document interface (SDI) and multiple document interface (MDI) programs. Also applies for program that has a user interface that looks like multiple instances of the same program (such as some versions of Microsoft Word).
  • Single document window splitting: window can be split to simultaneously view different areas of a file.
  • MDI: Overlappable windows: each opened document gets its own fully movable window inside the editor environment.
  • MDI: Tabbed document interface: multiple documents can be viewed as tabs in a single window.
  • MDI: Window splitting: splitting application window to show multiple documents (non-overlapping windows).

Basic features

Text editor support for basic editing features
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Virtual space support
Acme
external[q] 		?
AkelPad
Plug‑in 		?
Alphatk ?
Atom
Plug‑in
BBEdit ?
Bluefish ?
Brackets
Plug‑in
Plug‑in 		?
Coda ?
ConTEXT Partial
[r] 		Partial
[s] 		?
Crimson Editor
Instant/live (like Firefox) 		?
CudaText ?
ed ?
Editra ? ? ? ?
EmEditor
Geany
Plug‑in[t] 		[56]
gedit
[u]
Plug‑in[v] 		plug‑in
[57] 		?
GNU Emacs
Plug‑in[w] 		[58]
JED ?
jEdit
Plug‑in[x] 		[59]
JOE
Plug‑in[y] 		Partial
[z]
[aa] 		?
JOVE ?
Kate
KEDIT ?
Komodo Edit ?[ab]
Komodo IDE ?[ac]
KWrite ?
LE
[ad] 		?
Light Table
Plug‑in[60] 		? ? ?
Metapad Partial
[ae] 		?
mg
[61] 		Partial
[61] 		?
MinEd
[af]
[ag]
[ah] 		?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano ?
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Virtual Space Support
ne ?
NEdit
Plug‑in[62] 		?
Notepad Partial Partial ?
Notepad++
[63]
nvi ? ?
Pico ?
PolyEdit ?
PSPad ?
RJ TextEd ?
Sam
external[ai] 		?
SciTE Limited
[aj] 		?
SlickEdit
Smultron ?
SubEthaEdit
[64] 		?
Sublime Text [65]
TED Notepad ?
TextEdit ?
TextMate Partial ?
TextPad ?
TextWrangler ?
The SemWare Editor ?
UltraEdit Limited
[ak] 		?
VEDIT
[al] 		?
vi ?
Vim
[am] 		No[67]
Visual Studio Code
Plug‑in 		Limited
[an] 		[68]
XEmacs
Plug‑in[w] 		?
XNedit
Plug‑in[62] 		?
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Virtual Space Support

Programming features

Text editor support for programming features (see source code editor)
Syntax highlighting Function list Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.) 		Brace matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
Acme
external[q]
external[q] 		Partial
[ao]
external[q]
AkelPad
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Alphatk ? ?
Atom
Plug‑in
BBEdit
Bluefish
[ap]
Brackets
Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT ? ?
Crimson Editor Partial
[aq]
CudaText
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
ed
external[ar]
Editra ? ? ? ? ?
EmEditor
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in[as]
Geany
[at] 		Partial
gedit
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in[au]
[av]
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
JOE ? ?
JOVE
Kate
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
KEDIT
Macro
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite ? ?
LE
[aw]
Light Table Partial
[ax]
Metapad
mined
[ay] 		?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
Syntax highlighting Function list Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.) 		Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
ne
NEdit
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Notepad
Notepad++
[az]
[69][70]
[ba]
nvi ?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
Plug‑in
RJ TextEd
Sam
external[ai]
SciTE
[bb] 		?
SlickEdit
Smultron ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit ? ?
TED Notepad ? ?
TextEdit
TextMate
Plug‑in
[bc]
TextPad
Plug‑in[bd]
TextWrangler
Plug‑in[be]
The SemWare Editor
Plug‑in[71]
[bf] 		Partial
[bg]
UltraEdit Partial
[bh]
VEDIT
<[bi]
vi
Vim
Plug‑in[72]
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs ?
XNEdit
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Syntax highlighting Function list Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.) 		Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration

Notes

  • Syntax highlighting: Displays text in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms.
  • Function list: Lists all functions from current file in a window or sidebar and allows user to jump directly to the definition of that function for example by double-clicking on the function name in the list. More or less realtime (does not require creating a symbol database, see below).
  • Symbol database: Database of functions, variable and type definitions, macro definitions etc. in all the files belonging to the software being developed. The database can be created by the editor itself or by an external program such as ctags. The database can be used to instantly locate the definition even if it is in another file.
  • Bracket matching: Find matching parenthesis or bracket, taking into account nesting.
  • Auto indentation: May refer to just simple indenting to the same level as the line above, or intelligent indenting that is language specific, e.g., ensuring a given indent style.
  • Compiler integration: Allows running compilers/linkers/debuggers from within editor, capturing the compiler output and stepping through errors, automatically moving cursor to corresponding location in the source file.

Extra features

Text editor support for other programming features
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro language Collaborative editing Large file support Long line support Multi-line regex support[bj] Search in files
Acme
Extensible 		? ? ?
AkelPad memory
Plug‑in
Alphatk
[bk] 		? ? ? ?
Atom
[73] 		?
Plug‑in[74] 		~27 MB Soft-wrapping
[75]
BBEdit
[bl] 		memory
[76]
Bluefish ? ? ? ?
Brackets
Extensible 		? Partial
Coda
[bm] 		? ?
ConTEXT memory
[bn] 		? ?
Crimson Editor ? ?
CudaText
Plug‑in 		? ?
Plug‑in
ed
via mkfifo 		? ? ?
Editra ? ? ? ?
2 GB 		? ? ?
EmEditor
16TB 		?
Geany ?
Plug‑in 		? ? ?
gedit
[bo]
Plug‑in 		?
Plug‑in[77]
GNU Emacs 2.3 EB[78][79][80][81]
JED memory
[82]
Plug‑ins
jEdit (heap)[bp] ?
JOE ? ?
[84]
JOVE memory ?
Kate
Plug‑in
[85] 		Maybe
[bq]
Plug‑in
KEDIT 10Kb
Komodo Edit ? ?
[87] 		? ?
Komodo IDE ? ?
[87] 		? ?
KWrite
[85]
[88] 		?
LE
[br] 		memory
[bs] 		? ?
Light Table ? ?
Metapad memory
[89] 		?
mined ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
EDIT (MS-DOS) (64~300 KB)
EDIT (DR-DOS) 2 GB, for as long as there is disk swap space for two temporary files
Nano ? ? ? ?
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro language Collaborative editing Large file support Long line support Multi-line regex support Search in files
NEdit ?
Notepad memory ?
Notepad++
[90]
2GB[91]
[92]
nvi ? ? ? ? ?
Pico ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PolyEdit ? ?
PSPad memory
[93] 		?
with plug‑in
RJ TextEd ? ?
Sam ? ?
external[ai]
SciTE ? ? ?
SlickEdit
2 TB
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit ? ? ?
TED Notepad ? ? ?
TextEdit ? ? ? ?
TextMate ? ?
TextPad memory
[94] 		?
TextWrangler memory
[95] 		?
The SemWare Editor Only in special DOS multi-user version
2 GB 		?
UltraEdit
[bt]
VEDIT
vi ~65 MB ?
Vim
with plug‑in[96] 		memory
[bu]
Visual Studio Code
with plug‑in[97] 		? ?
XEmacs on 64-bit OS
[bv] 		?
XNEdit ?
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro language Collaborative editing Large file support Long line support Multi-line regex support Search in files

Large file support:

= Larger than 4 GiB (LFS) 2 GB = Larger than 1 GB, not limited by memory
memory = Limited by available memory    (64 KB) = Some limit less than available memory (give max size if known)

In general, most text editors do not support large text files. Some restrict themselves to available in-core RAM while others use sophisticated virtual memory management techniques and paging algorithms.[98]

Search in files: Perform search (and possibly replace) in multiple files on disk, for example on a sub-directory and recursively all the directories below it. Similar to grep.

Key bindings

Support for custom key bindings.

Text editor support for key bindings.
Dynamically customizable IBM CUA macOS Vi Emacs Pico WordStar WordPerfect Brief
Acme
AkelPad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Alphatk ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Atom ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
BBEdit[99][100] ? ? ? ? ? ?
Bluefish ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Brackets Partial
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Coda ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ConTEXT ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
CudaText ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ed
Editra
EmEditor ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
epsilon ? ? ? ? ? ?
Geany ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
gedit
[bw] 		? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
GNU Emacs Partial
[101]
[102]
[103]
[103]
JED Partial
[bx] 		? ? ?
jEdit ? ? ? ? ? ?
JOE[104]
JOVE
[105]
LE ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Light Table Partial ?
Plug‑in
Plug‑in 		? ? ? ?
Kate
[106]
KEDIT
Komodo Edit ? ? ? ? ?
Komodo IDE ? ? ? ? ?
KWrite ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Metapad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
mg ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
mined ? ? ? ? ? ?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano Partial
[107]
NEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Notepad
Notepad++ Partial
nvi ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Pico Partial
[107]
PolyEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PSPad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RJ TextEd ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sam
SciTE Partial
[by] 		? ? ? ? ?
SlickEdit
[bz]
[ca] 		Partial
[cb]
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextWrangler[99][108] ? ? ? ?
The SemWare Editor ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
UltraEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
VEDIT
[109]
vi
Vim Partial
Plug‑in[110]
Plug‑in[111]
[cc]
Plug‑in[cd] 		?
Plug‑in[113]
Plug‑in[114]
Visual Studio Code
Plug‑in[115]
Plug‑in[116] 		Partial
Plug‑in[117]
XEmacs Partial
[101]
[102]
[103]
[103]
XNEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Dynamically customizable IBM CUA macOS Vi Emacs Pico WordStar WordPerfect Brief

Notes, bugs

  • Vim: custom maps of Ctrl-1 .. Ctrl-9, Ctrl-0 cannot be set, nor is Control-Shift-<char> distinguished from Ctrl-<char>.[118][119]
  • 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.
  • Emacs and Pico: pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc.

Protocol support

Support for editing files over a network or the Internet.

Text editor support for remote file editing over network protocols
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk
Atom ? ? ? ?
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT
[120] 		?
[120] 		?
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
Editra ? ? ? ?
EmEditor
Geany
gedit
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit
plug‑in[121]
[122]
plug‑in[121]
plug‑in.
JOE
JOVE
LE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo IDE
FTP, FTPS, SFTP
KWrite
Metapad
mined ? ? ? ?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++
Plug‑in for FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP
Plug‑in
nvi
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
RJ TextEd
FTP, SFTP
Sam
SciTE
SlickEdit
Smultron ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad
[123] 		?
[123] 		?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
FTP, SFTP[124]
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim
[125]
[125]
[125]
[125]
Visual Studio Code
Plug‑in[126]
Plug‑in (limited?)[126]
Plug‑in[126]
Plug‑in[126]
XEmacs ?
XNEdit
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV

Unicode and other character encodings

To support specified character encoding, the editor must be able to load, save, view and edit text in the specific encoding and not destroy any characters. For UTF-8 and UTF-16, this requires internal 16-bit character support.

Partial support is indicated if: 1) the editor can only convert the character encoding to internal (8-bit) format for editing. 2) If some encodings are supported only in some platforms. 3) If the editor can only display specific character set (such as OEM) by loading corresponding font, but does not support keyboard entry for that character set.

Text editor support for some of the most common character encodings
ASCII ISO-8859 DOS (OEM) EBCDIC UTF-8 UTF-16
Acme ? ? ? ?
AkelPad
Alphatk ? ? ?
Atom ? ? ? ? ? ?
BBEdit
Bluefish]
Brackets
Coda ?
ConTEXT Partial
[ce]
Crimson Editor Partial
[ce] 		Partial
CudaText ?
ed ? ? ?
Editra
EmEditor
Geany ?
gedit ? ?
GNU Emacs
[cf]
[cg]
JED ? Partial
[ch]
jEdit
JOE ? ? ?
JOVE
LE ? ? ?
Kate ? ?
KEDIT Partial
[ce]
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite ? ? ?
Metapad Partial
[ce]
mined
MS-DOS Editor ? ? ? ?
Nano ? ?
NEdit ? ? ?
Notepad Partial
[ce]
Notepad++ plug‑in?
nvi ? ? ?
[ci]
Pico
PolyEdit ? ? ?
PSPad ?
RJ TextEd
Sam ? ? ?
SciTE[cj]
SlickEdit
Smultron ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad ? ? ?
TextEdit ? ?
TextMate ? ?
TextPad ? ? ? Partial
[ck] 		Partial
[ck]
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
[cl] 		Partial
[ce]
Plug‑in
UltraEdit
VEDIT Partial
[cm] 		Partial
[cm]
vi ? ? ?
Vim Partial
[cn]
Visual Studio Code
[128]
XEmacs ? ?
[co]
XNEdit ? ?

Right-to-left and bidirectional text

Support for Right-To-Left (RTL) texts is necessary for editing some languages like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish and the mixture of left to right (LTR) and RTL known as bi-directional (BiDi) support.

Depending on the algorithm used in the programs it might only render the bidirectional text correctly but may not be able to edit them. (e.g. Notepad++ 5.1.3 shows bidirectional texts correctly but cannot edit it and user should change the text direction to RTL to be able to edit RTL texts correctly.)

Right to left (RTL) & bidirectional (bidi) support
Right-to-left (RTL) Bi-directional (Bidi)
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk ? ?
Atom
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets ? ?
Coda ? ?
ConTEXT ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ?
ed ? ?
Editra ? ?
EmEditor
Geany ? ?
gedit
GNU Emacs
[cp]
JED ? ?
jEdit
JOE ? ?
JOVE
LE ? ?
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite ? ?
Metapad ? ?
MS-DOS Editor ? ?
mined
[cq]
[cq]
Nano ? ?
RTL Bidi
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++ Partial
[cr]
nvi ? ?
Pico ? ?
PolyEdit ? ?
PSPad ? ?
RJ TextEd
Sam
SciTE
SlickEdit ? ?
Smultron ? ?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad ? ?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad ? ?
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT ? ?
vi ? ?
Vim
through terminal support
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs ? ?
XNEdit
RTL Bidi

Newline support

Support for newline characters in line endings
Windows (CR/LF) Unix-like systems (including macOS)[129] (LF) Classic Mac OS (CR)
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk
Atom
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
Editra
EmEditor
Geany
gedit
GNU Emacs[cs]
JED
jEdit
JOE[130]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE
Metapad ?
MS-DOS Editor
mined
Nano
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++
nvi ? ?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
RJ TextEd
Sam ? ? ?
SciTE
SlickEdit
Smultron
SubEthaEdit
Sublime Text
TED Notepad
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs
XNEdit
Windows (CR/LF) Unix-like systems (including macOS) (LF) Classic Mac OS (CR)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ alexey_t, kvichans, matthias030.
  2. ^ last update in OpenBSD repo[28]
  3. ^ a b No native support, available as a part of the Inferno port for Windows or by using `plan9port` over the WSL.
  4. ^ a b c d e Requires Cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run on Windows.
  5. ^ GEdit, when installed from MacPorts, runs in X11 and, therefore, does not have a native look and feel. However, precompiled native macOS binaries for GEdit may be downloaded from the GEdit project page, or from the GEdit FTP download server.
  6. ^ a b c gedit, NEdit, and SciTE run in the X11 window environment, and therefore do not use the native Aqua look-and-feel when running on macOS.
  7. ^ Stand alone NSIS installable package is available
  8. ^ gedit supports single document window splitting via plug‑ins. [1] Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ^ gedit supports multiple document window splitting via plug‑ins. [2] Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ^ GNU Emacs 27.1 includes built-in support for tab bar (per-frame) and tab-line (per-window). Earlier versions of GNU Emacs can use a tabbed document interface in a non OS-native way using the Tabbar plug‑in.
  11. ^ GNU Emacs can support a tabbed document interface modelled after GNU Screen using the elscreen Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine package.
  12. ^ JOE supports editing multiple files but only seeing one of them, and switching to others via Ctrl+K+N, which is functionally equivalent to having tabs but no visible tab bar.
  13. ^ mined supports Copy/Paste between multiple documents in separate windows, when these documents are in separate terminal windows
  14. ^ SciTE_max_buffers
  15. ^ Vim Provided GVim is used.
  16. ^ Vim version 7 supports a tabbed document interface. Earlier versions can emulate tabs through scripts, for example.[55]
  17. ^ a b c d Acme can invoke external commands and display their return values in order to integrate additional functionality.
  18. ^ ConTEXT does not support regular expression backreferences in its search and replace function. [3] Archived 2007-12-18 at archive.today
  19. ^ ConTEXT only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16.
  20. ^ Geany supports spell checking via a plug‑in
  21. ^ gedit supports spell checking via a plug‑in, which is distributed with gedit.
  22. ^ gedit supports Regex-based find & replace via plug‑ins ([4] Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine).
  23. ^ a b Emacs supports spell checking via the external programs ispell, aspell, or Hunspell.
  24. ^ jEdit supports spell checking via an external plug‑in.
  25. ^ JOE supports spell checking via the ispell or aspell external plug‑ins.
  26. ^ JOE uses a non-standard regular expression syntax.
  27. ^ JOE can easily pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility; it detects locale settings and allows editing in any encoding set up by the environment.
  28. ^ Komodo Edit is based on Scintilla and may support virtual space similar to Geany and Notepad++ ([5])
  29. ^ Komodo IDE is based on Scintilla and may support virtual space similar to Geany and Notepad++ ([6])
  30. ^ LE can pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility
  31. ^ Metapad spell checking by calling external program Aspell.
  32. ^ mined supports multiple lines in search and replacement expressions.
  33. ^ mined can convert the encoding format when using the Copy & Paste feature between multiple documents (that have different encodings).
  34. ^ mined supports new-line conversion via a command-line option or from the menu. Files with mixed newline types can be edited transparently; different kinds of new-line have different visual indications.
  35. ^ a b c It is possible to start external applications from inside Sam and display their return values.
  36. ^ Scintilla-based editors such as SciTE, Notepad2 and Notepad++ do not support alternation (
  37. ^ UltraEdit uses the Boost C++ regex library. While Boost supports backreferences past \9 with \g{10}, UltraEdit has not yet implemented this feature.
  38. ^ VEDIT 6.2 comes with Scribe spelling checker which has been written entirely in Vedit macro language. In addition, macro package for integrating Aspell can be downloaded here.
  39. ^ Vim version 7 supports spell checking natively. Earlier versions require a script.[66]
  40. ^ Visual Studio Code does not support virtual space, and rectangular selection beyond line endings is not possible.
  41. ^ Acme's auto-completion only works on file names.
  42. ^ bluefish: Configurable via the outputbox feature.
  43. ^ With external tool OpenCTags
  44. ^ ed can invoke external commands, like a compiler.
  45. ^ EmEditor Professional supports Auto Complete via plug‑ins (32-bit or 64-bit).
  46. ^ Geany uses its own tags file format, not compatible with ctags, see the manual.
  47. ^ gedit-folding: Folding plug‑in for Gedit
  48. ^ gedit: Compiler integration: Functionality in plug‑ins installed with gedit.
  49. ^ make can be launched from the LE text editor, but the output is not captured
  50. ^ Evaluates expressions in some dynamic languages such as Clojure, Python and Javascript in realtime
  51. ^ mined: Syntax highlighting: HTML/XML, Javascript, JSP.
  52. ^ Notepad++ comes with Function List support, and it can be enhanced via plugins.
  53. ^ Notepad++ installs with auto complete list for multiple programming languages. Has user option to add additional personalized auto complete list(s).
  54. ^ Function list (and stuff) available in Ru-Board build, ver 1.79.66Ru and later
  55. ^ TextMate: Auto complete: Supported language bundles
  56. ^ Textpad uses an add-on ([7])
  57. ^ TextWrangler can integrate with a compiler if you write a shell script that takes flag input of the code and compiles it. You place this in ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Unix Support/Unix Filters/. It should show in the #! menu.
  58. ^ The Semware Editor: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
  59. ^ The Semware Editor: Text folding: Compressed view possible.
  60. ^ Not in the Linux version.
  61. ^ Vedit: Auto complete: Template editing, plus 3rd party macro for expanding symbols from tags database.
  62. ^ Multi-line regex support Support for expressions spanning several lines (e.g. "\n\n(.+)\n\n")
  63. ^ Alpha Macro support via AppleScript, Tcl or text factories.
  64. ^ BBEdit Macro support via AppleScript, Perl, Python, Lasso, shell scripts or text factories.
  65. ^ Coda offers macros via AppleScript, text "clips,"or plug‑ins (Cocoa apps or any installed scripting language).
  66. ^ name
  67. ^ Cssed Macro support via Python.
  68. ^ jEdit: Limited by Java heap size.[83]
  69. ^ Kate: Line length is limited by default. The limit can be removed, but long lines may cause poor performance.[86]
  70. ^ LE text editor locks the file and warns if someone else has changed the file
  71. ^ LE text editor can view and edit large files or their parts in mmap-shared mode
  72. ^ UltraEdit has no real limit on file size - and can easily open, edit, and save large text files in excess of 4 GB! [8].
  73. ^ 2GB with 32 Bits, on a 64 Bit system it depends on the available virtual memory.
  74. ^ Emacs: 64-bit compilation on 64-bit OS can handle 2 GB files, otherwise the limit is 512 MiB. [9]
  75. ^ It is possible to customize all Gedit shortcuts because it is Gtk based.
  76. ^ The JED base release comes with a basic CUA emulation, but it doesn't bother to bind lots of useful editor features. Also, like some other editors, 1 side of a region must be at the cursor. The main extension collections jedmodes/jed-extra and the "Red Project" have improved versions, tackling the former problem in particular.
  77. ^ In SciTE, custom keystrokes may be assigned to Lua scripts, external programs or lexers (highlighters).
  78. ^ SlickEdit provides emulation of Visual Studio, Visual C++ 6, CodeWright, Epsilon and ISPF key bindings in addition to those given in the table.
  79. ^ SlickEdit supports CodeWarrior, Xcode and BBEdit key binding emulation.
  80. ^ SlickEdit includes support of vi key bindings, the ex command line and some, but not all Vim extensions.
  81. ^ Vim emulates vi keys fully when in 'compatible' mode
  82. ^ Vim With a script[112]
  83. ^ a b c d e f when choosing e.g. Terminal font
  84. ^ GNU Emacs: While GNU Emacs supports the UTF-8 encoding, it doesn't fully support the Unicode standard, since it doesn't fully support the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section below).
  85. ^ GNU Emacs: While GNU Emacs supports the UTF-16 encoding, it doesn't fully support the Unicode standard, since it doesn't fully support the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section below).
  86. ^ JEDs Windows version comes with a pair of scripts that can convert UTF-16 text files (actually anything iconv can convert) to and from JED's internal UTF-8. The Red Project releases include an enhanced version of these scripts.
  87. ^ nvi Gentoo
  88. ^ SciTE can open files in UTF or one single-byte encoding specified in a configuration file.
  89. ^ a b TextPad can load and save UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, but cannot use or even preserve characters outside of the system encoding.[127]
  90. ^ when choosing e.g. New Courier font
  91. ^ a b Vedit can convert UTF-8 and UTF-16 files to Windows character set and back. Characters not included in Windows charset can be preserved.
  92. ^ Vim supports EBCDIC when compiled on a system that uses the EBCDIC character set.
  93. ^ from version 21.5.29
  94. ^ GNU Emacs

    (1) According to a comment in the source file where the bidi support is implemented (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/bidi.c accessed August 15, 2017), GNU Emacs doesn't fully conform to the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Unicode Annex #9, a.k.a. UAX #9) in the way it wraps the lines of a bidi paragraph: "we are violating paragraph 3.4 of UAX#9. which mandates that line breaking shall be done before reordering each screen line separately."

    (2) According to the online GNU Emacs manual (section 22.19 Bidirectional Editing, accessed August 15, 2017), for the purpose of changing paragraph direction, "Paragraph boundaries are empty lines, i.e., lines consisting entirely of whitespace character". This contrasts with the otherwise ubiquitous convention of regarding the newline marker (LF on Unix derivatives, including macOS, and CR+LF on Windows) as the paragraph separator in plain text documents. However starting with version 26.0.50, the bidi paragraph separator can be customized.
  95. ^ a b mined: supports bidi in cooperation with bidi terminal (mlterm, mintty); also supports "poor man's bidi mode"(automatic visual text order right-to-left input) in normal terminal
  96. ^ Notepadpp: Scintilla (Notepad++'s Engine) does not really support bidirectional editing ... Some bidirectional text support added in 4.1.0. https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/757/#01c9
  97. ^ GNU Emacs: GNU Emacs doesn't regard the newline marker as a paragraph separator in bidi texts. See comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section.

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