CategorizationRules

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Here are the rules for assigning an editor to a family.

IF the editor's primary command set matches ViEditor?, WordStar, EmacsEditor?, or BriefEditor? THEN

   it belongs in that family

ENDIF

IF the editor runs on Windows only (or most often) THEN

    it belongs to the WindowsEditor? family

ENDIF

OTHERWISE...

This editor may warrant its own family.

Some editors might classify in more than one family.

For example, there are an assortment of editors based on the Scintilla Edit Control. There are also editors based on the Windows richtext control, and the Borland Editor component.

Or they will share an implementation language, like being Java apps, or share an embedded scripting language, like Lisp, Python, S-lang, or Tcl.

Some of these are also intended to be things like Windows Notepad replacements.

So, is Notepad++ a Notepad replacement, or a Scintilla based editor?

Yes. :-)

The wiki doesn't provide a convenient means of expressing that sort of matrix, but the relationships exist. This means an editor may appear in more than one family. So be it.

--DMcCunney