The following is a list of text editors. For a list of outliners, see that article's external links.
Graphical and text user interface
The following editors can either be used with a graphical user interface or a text user interface.
ASCII and ANSI art
Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of ASCII and ANSI text art.
ACiDDraw – Designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64).
JavE – ASCII editor, portable to any platform running a Java GUI.
PabloDraw – ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via TCP/IP network connections.
TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor for DOS and PCBoard file format support.
FIGlet – For creating ASCII art text.
TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts.
Visual and full-screen editors
Brief – A very popular programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2.
Edit application – A programmer's editor for Classic Mac OS.
EDIT – A menu-based editor introduced to supersede EDLIN in MS-DOS version 5.0 and up and available in most Microsoft Windows
EDT – A character based editor used on DEC PDP-11s and VAXen.
O26 – written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in the mid-1960s
Red – A VAX/VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC.
se – An early screen-based editor for Unix.
SED – Cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and VMS.
STET (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977.
TeachText
TECO – One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language. While usually described as a line editor, it included screen editing capabilities at least as early as 1965.
Colossal Typewriter – An early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1
ed – (1) Unix's early line editor, (2) CP/M's line editor.
EDLIN – A line editor delivered with MS-DOS.
EDT (Univac) - a line editor for Unisys VS/9 and e Fujitsu BS2000 systems.
ex – An EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi.
fred - sed-like line editor used on the CDC7600 at Los Alamos.
GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) is a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 series computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and then adopted by GEC Computers for OS4000.
sed – A non-interactive programmable stream editor available in Unix.
TECO – One of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language.
TEDIT – GEC 4000 series editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT
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