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Welcome to http://TextEditors.org, your home for text editor reviews, analysis, and commentary by the community at large. Since 2003-05-23, this has grown to be the home of the largest collection of text editor information on the web. This site is as inclusive as possible. Any platform, any OS, any chip, any language, etc. There's plenty of room for everyone. If it's a text editor that runs on a computer, the wiki wants to document it.
This is a WikiWiki site, which means that anybody can create/make/delete entries.¹ We hope this means we will build a healthy community around the issues that matter most to us. So far, we've collected more than 2,000 text editors listed in the EditorIndex.
¹See TextFormattingRules for details.
Note to contributors: Thanks for adding information to TextEditors. Please take a look at other entries to see the standard format we apply before adding an entry, and think about what [families] it might be part of. Also, add yourself to the Contributors list so we know who is helping out here. --DMcCunney
About Text Editors:
- PickingATextEditor is a discussion about how to pick a text editor for your use.
- TextEditorFamilies is the list of editors (by "family") that we cover here.
- Family Classifications groups editor families by ancestor, platform, implementation language, or other common factor
- EditorIndex is the list of all editors regardless of family or feature.
- UnClassified (!) These are editors that have not been put into a "family". Can you help?
- EditorHistory Information about the development of text editors
- EditorPower is the discussion about the relative strengths of certain editors
- GeneralTipsAndTricks are available that work in many different editors.
- CategoryFeatures -- in which editor is feature X present?
- Windows editors that work fine WithoutTheWindowsRegistry
- OtherTextEditorWikis -- this ain't the only one...
- OrthodoxEditors- Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov's classification of editors as Eastern Orthodox or Western Orthodox
- CommonGripes -- problems with TextEditors
- Some Gripes become HolyWars
- TheIdealEditor -- Help brainstorm the ultimate universal editor.
- FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions and Recommendations
- TextEditorVotingPage -- show your support
- AboutLicenses -- About software licenses for text editors
- FriendlierEditorIndex -- Doesn't require one to scroll forever. (Unfortunately, I can't make local anchors work in it; see [URLs Using Anchors].)
About Using Text Editors:
- Using Text Editors
- Text Editors used by Well Known Programmers (Real or Fictitious)
- Text Editing for Beginners
About Extending Text Editors:
- PluginArchitectures is the discussion about shared/common/unique characteristics of how TextEditors do plugins.
- MacroLanguagePower is a discussion/classification about and the relative "power" of each MacroLanguage out there.
- EditorsVsIDE -- the battle rages on
- DebuggerIntegration - how text editors "talk" with debuggers
- MailIntegration -- how text editors and mail become symbiotic
- HexEditors -- some text editors have become hex editors, for hex dumps and such.
About How to Program text editors:
- DesigningTextEditors
- CoreTextEditorProgramming
- MacroLanguage programming
- DesignStandards
- TestingTextEditors (including TortureTests)
- KeyboardsMatter -- your keyboard can make a big difference
- FontsMatter -- Great fonts for the long haul
- DisplaysMatter -- how the size, shape, and qualities of the display affect text editing
About Human Language Document Production:
Text Editor Humor:
Text editors on the Web:
- USENET newsgroups
- IRC (?)
- https://www.vmunix.com/vim/chat.html
- Server: irc.fu-berlin.de Channel: #vim
- Server: irc.openprojects.net Channel: #vim
- Server: irc.freenode.net Channels: #emacs #vim #xemacs
About text-editor programmers:
- RobBarnaby - Co-author of WordStar
- MikeCowlishaw - author of LEXX and LPEX text editors as well as the RexxLanguage.
- JanFiala - Author of PSPad
- CraigFinseth - wrote a TextBook on text editors of the EmacsFamily, and an emacs-style editor called Freyja
- JamesGosling - Author of GoslingEmacs
- DavidHamel - author of Boxer
- DonaldKnuth - author of TeX uses Emacs (reference here http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 )
- Philip Hazel - Author of ZED-ICL and NE-ICL
- MarkHessling - Author of THE (The Hessling Editor), maintainer of Regina Rexx
- BillJoy - original author of Vi
- BrianKelly - author of TM and https://pfiloans.com/
- ClarkMaurer - SlickEdit and early IBM E Editor family members, including E, E2, and E3 IBM
- SammyMitchell - QEdit, now called TSE-Jr, and TheSemwareEditor
- BramMoolenaar - Author of Vim
- DanMurphy - Author of TECO
- RobPike - author of Sam, ACME, Help , and other text editors. Still uses ACME in 2018 (says https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/1055632360606035968)
- RichardStallman - Designed and wrote GnuEmacs (initially at least)
- BlairThompson - Author of X2
- XavierDeLamberterie - Author of IBM XEDIT
- JonSkinner - Author of Sublime Text
Text Editors of the Stars
- Ken Thompson creator of UNIX (and ed!), Bjarne Stroustrup creator of C++, and Brian Kernighan of AWK and K&R fame, all use sam
- Dennis Ritchie creator of C used ACME from Rob Pike, also author of sam and both involved in the creation of Plan 9.
- DavidHeinemeierHansson - Famed Ruby Programmer uses TextMate
- JamieZawinski - Famed Mozilla Hacker uses XEmacs
- RandalSchwartz - Famed Perl Hacker uses GnuEmacs (listen to any FLOSS Weekly show)
- Linus Torvalds - Famed originator of Linux uses MicroEmacs (Linus Torvalds uses a customized version of [uEmacs/PK 4.0.15])
- Larry Wall - Famed originator of Perl uses Vim (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIWdJVP-wo Larry Wall talk at Google)
- Yukihiro Matsumoto creator of Ruby, Guido van Rossum creator of Python, Rich Hickey creator of Clojure, and Joe Armstrong creator of Erlang, all use GnuEmacs
- Jonathan Blow - game designer and author of the Jai Programming Language, uses GnuEmacs
- John Carmack - game developer, co-founder of idSoftware, and CTO of Oculus, uses Sublime Text, used GnuEmacs
- Walter Bright - creator of the D programming language, Digital Mars C++ and Zortech C++, uses MicroEmacs (Walter Bright uses a customized version of [MicroEmacs])
About This Wiki:
- WhyWiki describes my motivations for doing this in WikiWiki.
- WikiNode is about this wiki, with pointers to related ones.
- TextFormattingRules is the list of "standard" WikiWiki formatting hints.
- StandardInfoBlock is the standard information "chunk" for each editor that should be filled in.
- ThingsIdLikeToSee is a great place to drop suggestions.
- I try to block WikiSpam -- my thanks to all who have helped keep this site clean.
- Check out our GuestBook to see who has stopped by and contributed. (sign yourself up!)
- Contributors: Who works on this site
- TheRules
- Deprecated - Links to wiki pages that should go away
- SiteOutage - A list of site outages on TextEditors (Only one thus far...)
- [Backend] - Storage for things hosted on TextEditors