List of text editors

The following is a list of notable text editors.

Graphical and text user interface

The following editors can either be used with a graphical user interface or a text user interface.

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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)
TheDraw – ANSI/ASCII text editor for DOS and PCBoard file format support

FIGlet – for creating ASCII art text
TheDraw – DOS ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts

Brief – a 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 VMS
O26 – written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in the mid-1960s
Red – a 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
SPMOL-II – editor used mostly for programming on IBM mainframes with the IBM 3270 terminal
STET (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977
TeachText
TECO – a character-based editor, which included a programming language.

Colossal Typewriter – an early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1
ed:
- Unix's early line editor
- CP/M's line editor
EDLIN – a line editor delivered with MS-DOS
EDT (Univac) – a line editor for Unisys VS/9 and 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 CDC 7600 at Los Alamos
GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) – 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
QED