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TextEditors fall roughly into a series of families. Which family an editor is in may be determined by the KeyboardLayout, the platform, the implementation language, or the type of content the editor is designed to edit. Some editors may fall into more than one family.

The FamilyTree - Roots to branches
EditorFamilyTree - Genealogy from alt.folklore.computers
Family Classifications - Families fall into groups
Editor Family discussion - Commentary about these listings
Other Families - Families of related software that aren't text editors

Alphabetical listing

8bitMicroFamily - Editors on 8 bit micro machines from Atari, Coleco, Tandy, and others
AmigaEditorFamily - Editors for the Commodore Amiga
AEDITFamily - Intel's text editors were originally used on 8086/8088 processors.
AndroidEditorFamily - Text editors for the Google Android OS
AssemblerEditorFamily - Editors written an Asssembly language for various platforms
Atari8bitFamily - Editors for 8 bit Atari systems
AtariSTEditorFamily - Editors for the AtariST?
BellLabsFamily editors are centered around the use of RegularExpressions and may include both FullScreen and LineEditors?
BriefFamily editors were popular in the MSDOS days.
CalculatorEditorFamily - Text editors on pocket calculators
ClojureEditorFamily - Editors for working on [Clojure] code
CollaborativeEditorFamily - Editors usable for real-time collaboration
CommodoreFamily - Text editors for Commodore Business Machines computers
ComponentFamily - Components upon which editors are built
CPMEditorFamily - Editors for the Digital Research CP/M OS used on early 8bit microcomputers
CSharpEditorFamily - Editors written in Microsoft's C# language
CTSSEditorFamily - Editors running on MIT CTSS (Compatible Time-Sharing System), ancestor of Multics
CuaFamily editors use CUA (common user access) style of editing
DataEditorFamily text editors used to edit "flat-files" and other structured data files
DecFamily text editors originated on Digital Equipment Corporation systems
DelphiEditorFamily - Text editors written in Delphi
DesktopPublisherFamily - Full fledged publishing programs that include an editor
DotNETEditorFamily - Editors based on the Microsoft .NET framework
EarlyEditorFamily - Editors important in the development of computerized text editing
EclipseFamily - Products built on IBM's open source Java Eclipse IDE
EdinburghFamily text editors were written in Edinburgh, Scotland.
EmacsFamily editors derive their structure from the Emacs (both Gosling and GNU) editors.
FoldingEditors - Editors that implement TextFolding
FullScreenEditorFamily - Editors intended to run full screen with no distractions - just your text
GameConsoleFamily - Editors running on gaming consoles
GecFamily - Editors that ran on GEC Computers mini-computers
HexEditorFamily editors are used primarily to edit files in Hexadecimal/binary/octal and other representations.
HTMLEditorFamily - Editors for writing HTML code
IbmEditorFamily - Text editors for IBM mid-range and mainframe systems and emulators of them on PCs
IDEFamily - Editors that are components of Integrated Development Environments
IntelFamily text editors have been popular as well.
iOSEditorFamily - Editors on Apple devices running iOS
JavaBasedEditors - Editors written in the Java language, and runnable on any machine with a Java runtime installed
JavaScriptEditorFamily - Editors written in JavaScript
LineEditorFamily - All of the line editors (i.e. not full screen or full window)
LinuxEditorFamily - Editors for the Linux operating system
LuaEditorFamily - Editors using the embedded Lua Script Language
MacintoshEditorFamily - Editors for Apple Macintosh systems
MainframeEditorFamily - Editors on mainframe computers
MarkdownEditorFamily - Editors for writing in the Markdown lightweight markup language
MicrosoftWindowsEditors - These are CuaFamily editors but with added Windows specific functionality.
MiniComputerFamily - Text editors for things that aren't PCs
MsDosEditors proliferated in the 1990's. Many have their own Family trees.
MulticsEditorFamily - Editors running on the Multics OS, which influenced Unix
NotepadReplacement editors are replacements for NotePad.
OberonEditorFamily text editors encourage textual re-use in the way they use the mouse.
OS/2EditorFamily - Text editors for IBM's OS/2 operating system
OutlinerFamily editors are used to edit trees and other forms of hierarchical data.
PalmOSEditorsFamily - Text editors on devices running the Palm Operating System
PerlEditorFamily - Text editors written in Perl
PocketPCFamily - Text editors for handhelds running the WinCE/WindowsMobile? OS
PythonEditorFamily - Text editors written in the Python scripting language
RandEditorsFamily - Editors inspired by the Rand Corp. full screen editor
REXX-Friendly Editors - Text editors friendly to editing REXX, ooREXX code
RichTextEditorFamily - Text editors capable of editing Rich Text Format files
RiscOSEditorFamily -Text editors that run under RiscOS
RubyEditorFamily - Text editors written in the Ruby script language
RustEditorFamily - Text editors written in the Rust Language
ScintillaEditorFamily - Text editors built on the Scintilla edit component
ScriptedEditorFamily - Editors extendable with a script language
SpecializedFamily - Text editors for a quite specific purpose or application
SynEditEditorFamily - Editors using the SynEdit editor control
TclTkEditorFamily - Text editors written in the TclTk script language
TECOEditorFamily - The one that started it all - and its offspring!
TeXEditorFamily - Editors for working with TeX/LaTeX
TextMateEditorFamily - Text editors resembling the TextMate editor
TinyEditors are editors that are full featured but extremely small in size (disk and RAM).
UnicodeEditorFamily - Text editors capable of working with Unicode
UnixEditorFamily - Text editors for flavors of the Unix OS.
VBEditorFamily - Text editors written in MS Visual Basic
ViFamily editors all derive from BillJoy's original Vi text editor at Berkeley. They intersect with the BellLabsFamily
VIMFamily Products that integrate with and extend VIM
WebHostedEditors run directly off a web page.
WebOSEditorFamily Editors that run on Palm's WebOS
WordProcessorFamily - Editors with additional features to control the appearance of a printed page
WordStarFamily of editors were derived from the MicroPro WordStar WordProcessor (as well as the WordMaster editor)
WritersIDEFamily - Text editors for prose with additional features for story development
XMLEditorFamily - Text editors for creating XML documents
YaleZFamily - Text editors descended from Yale Z