Comparison of text editors

This article provides basic comparisons for notable text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual products' articles. This article may not be up-to-date or necessarily all-inclusive.

Feature comparisons are made between stable versions of software, not the upcoming versions or beta releases – and are exclusive of any add-ons, extensions or external programs (unless specified in footnotes).

Overview

List of text editors

	Creator	First public release	Latest stable version	Latest Release Date	Programming language	Cost (US$)	Software license	Open source	CLI available	Minimum installed size
Acme	Rob Pike	1993	Plan 9 and Inferno		C	Free	LPL (OSI approved)
AkelPad	Alexey Kuznetsov, Alexander Shengalts	2003	4.9.8	2016‑07‑18	C	Free	BSD
Alphatk	Vince Darley	1999	8.3.3	2004‑12‑10		$40	Proprietary, with BSD components
Aquamacs	David Reitter	2005	3.5	2019‑08‑18	C, Emacs Lisp	Free	GPL
Atom	GitHub	2014	1.46.0	2020‑05‑05	HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++	Free	MIT			~ 107‑185 MB
BBEdit	Rich Siegel	1992	13.0.4	2020‑01‑15	Objective-C, Objective-C++	Free for most features, $49.99 for full version	Proprietary
Bluefish	Bluefish Development Team	1999	2.2.10	2017‑01‑27	C	Free	GPL
Brackets	Adobe Systems	2012	1.14	2019‑05‑02	HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++	Free	MIT			~ 64‑105 MB
Coda	Panic	2007	2.6.6	2017‑06‑05	Objective-C	$99	Proprietary
ConTEXT	ConTEXT Project Ltd	1999	0.98.6	2009‑08‑14	Object Pascal (Delphi)	Free	BSD
Crimson Editor	Ingyu Kang, Emerald Editor Team	1999	3.72	2008‑05‑14	C++	Free	GPL
CudaText	UVViewSoft (alexey_t, kvichans, matthias030)	2015	1.57.0	2018‑06‑25	Object Pascal (Lazarus)	Free	MPL 2.0			8 MB Mac 12 MB Win 5 Mb *nix
ed	Ken Thompson	1970	unchanged from original		C	Free	?			0.04 MB
EditPlus	Sangil Kim	1998	5.0	2018‑03‑26	C++	$35	Shareware
Editra	Cody Precord	2007	0.7.20	2013‑01‑05	Python	Free	wxWindows license
EmEditor	Emurasoft, Inc.	1997	18.64	2019‑02‑08	C++	149.99	Shareware
epsilon	Lugaru Software	1984	13.06	2016‑12‑06	C	$250	Proprietary
gedit	GNU Project	2000	3.28.2 (Win 3.20.1, Mac 3.2.6[1])	2018‑05‑09	C	Free	GPL
Geany	Enrico Tröger	2005	1.33	2018‑02‑25	C, GTK2	Free	GPL
GNU Emacs	Richard Stallman	1984	26.1	2018‑05‑28	C, Emacs Lisp	Free	GPL			11.6 MB
GNU nano	Chris Allegretta	1999	5.0	2020‑07‑29	C	Free	GPL			0.6 MB
JED	John E. Davis	1992	0.99‑19	2009‑12‑13	C, S-Lang	Free	GPL			3.5 MB[2]
jEdit	Slava Pestov	1998	5.5.0	2018‑04‑09	Java	Free	GPL
JOE	Joseph Allen	1988	4.6	2018‑01‑10	C	Free	GPL			1.3 MB
JOVE	Johnathon Payne	1983	4.16	1996‑03‑19	C	Free	GPL
Kate	KDE Project	2000‑12	19.12.3	2020‑03‑24	C++	Free	GPL
KEDIT	Mansfield Software Group, Inc.	1983	1.6.1	2016‑12‑05	C	$129	Proprietary			1.1MB
Komodo Edit	Activestate	2007 (open-sourced)	10.2.3	2017‑07‑11	Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby	Free	MPL, GPL, LGPL
Komodo IDE	Activestate	2001	11.0.2	2017‑12‑19	Python, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, PHP, Ruby	$295	Proprietary
KWrite	KDE Project	2000	17.12.3	2017‑03‑08	C++	Free	GPL
LE	Alexander V. Lukyanov	1997	1.16.3	2016‑06‑06	C++	Free	GPL
Leo	Edward K. Ream	1996	5.7.2	2018‑05‑07	Python	Free	MIT
Light Table	Chris Granger	2012	0.8.1	2016‑01‑21	ClojureScript	Free	MIT
Metapad	Alexander Davidson	1999	3.6	2011‑05‑28	C	Free	GPL
mg	Dave Conroy	1986	current		C	Free	Public domain
MinEd	Thomas Wolff	1992	2015.25	2015‑03‑30	C	Free	GPL
MS-DOS Editor	Microsoft	1991	2.0.026			Bundled with MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows	Proprietary
ne	Sebastiano Vigna, Todd Lewis, Daniele Filaretti	1993	3.2.1	2019‑10‑02	C	Free	GPL			2.7 MB
NEdit	Mark Edel	1991	5.7	2017‑02‑08	C	Free	GPL
Notepad	Microsoft	1985	6.0		MASM (originally)	Bundled with Microsoft Windows	Proprietary
Notepad++	Don Ho	2003‑11‑25	7.8.9	2020‑07‑16	C++	Free	GPL			11.9 MB
Notepad2	Florian Balmer	2004‑04	4.2.25	2011‑05‑06	C++	Free	BSD
NoteTab	Eric Fookes, Fookes Software	1995	7.2	2014‑11‑04	Object Pascal (Delphi)	Free, €39.95 Pro	Proprietary
nvi	Keith Bostic	1994	1.79		C	Free	BSD
Pico	University of Washington	1992	4.64		C	Free	AL2
PolyEdit	PolySoft Solutions	1998	5.4	2010‑04‑07		$27.95	Shareware
PSPad	Jan Fiala	2002	5.0.3 (377)	2020‑02‑10	Object Pascal (Delphi)	Free	Proprietary
Q10	Baara Estudio	2007	1.2.21	2011‑06‑16	?	Free	Proprietary
RJ TextEd	Rickard Johansson	2004	13.10	2018‑05‑07	Object Pascal (Delphi)	Free	Proprietary
Sam	Rob Pike	1980s (early)	stable		C	Free	LPL (OSI approved)
SciTE	Neil Hodgson	1999	4.0.5	2018‑04‑10	C++	$41.99 for macOS. free for others	HPND
SlickEdit	SlickEdit, Inc.	1988	23.0.0	2018‑10‑23	C, Slick-C	$299	Proprietary
Smultron	Peter Borg	2004	12.1.1	2017‑02‑20	Objective-C	$7.99	Proprietary
Source Insight	Source Dynamics	?	4.0.0084	2017‑02‑26	Source Insight macro language	$239-$255	Proprietary
SubEthaEdit	TheCodingMonkeys	2003	4.1	2015‑02‑25		$35 commercial use	Proprietary
Sublime Text	Jon Skinner	2008	3.2.2	2019‑10‑1	C++, Python	$80	Shareware
TED Notepad	Juraj Simlovic	2001	6.1.1	2016‑12‑04	C	Free	Freeware
Textadept	Mitchell	2007	10.8	2020‑01‑01	C, Lua	Free	MIT
TextEdit	Apple Inc.	2001	1.13	2017‑07‑16		Free (also bundled with macOS)	New BSD
TextMate	MacroMates	2004‑10‑10	1.5.11	2012‑07‑13	Objective-C++	$53 (€39)	Proprietary, with MIT components. Version 2 released under GPLv3	(from version 2)
TextPad	Helios Software Solutions	1992	8.4.2	2020‑07‑07		$30.00 (£16.50)	Shareware
TextWrangler	Bare Bones Software	2003	5.5.2	2016‑09‑20 (discontinued)		Free	Proprietary
The SemWare Editor	Sammy Mitchell	1985‑11	4.4	2005‑06‑24	C, SAL	$99	Proprietary
UltraEdit	IDM Computer Solutions	1994	25.0	2018‑03‑12	C++	$99.95	Proprietary
VEDIT	Ted Green, Greenview Data	1980	6.24.2	2015‑01‑12	Assembly, C	$89 standard,239 Pro64	Proprietary			0.6 MB
vi	Bill Joy	1976	3.7		C	Free	BSD or CDDL
Vim	Bram Moolenaar	1991	8.2	2019‑12‑12	C, Vim script	Free	GPL compatible			2.2 MB
Visual Studio Code	Microsoft	2015	1.40.1	2019‑11‑13	JavaScript, TypeScript	Free	MIT			~ 53‑82 MB
XEmacs	Lucid Inc.	1991	21.4.22	2009‑01‑30	C, Emacs Lisp	Free	GPL

Operating system support

This section lists the operating systems that different editors can run on. Some editors run on additional operating systems that are not listed.

Cross-platform

Text editor support for various operating systems

	Microsoft Windows	macOS	Linux	BSD	Unix	OpenVMS
Acme	Partial [3]
AkelPad
Alphatk
Aquamacs
Atom
Arachnophilia
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed	Partial [4]
EditPlus
Editra				?	?	?
EmEditor
epsilon		[5]
Geany
gedit		[1]
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit
JOE
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit					?	?
Komodo IDE					?	?
KWrite
LE	Partial [4]
Light Table
Metapad
mg						?
MinEd
Nano
ne	Partial [4]
NEdit	Partial [4]	[6]
Notepad
Notepad++
Notepad2
NoteTab
nvi
Pico
PSPad
Q10
RJ TextEd
Sam	Partial [3]
SciTE		[6]
SlickEdit
Smultron
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad
Textadept
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
Ulysses (text editor)
vi
Vim
Visual Studio Code				?	?	?
XEmacs

Natural language (localization)

Available languages for the UI

	Languages supported
Acme	English
AkelPad	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish
Alphatk	English
Aquamacs	English
Atom	English
BBEdit	English
Brackets	English, German, French, Polish(Outdated), Korean, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish(Outdated)
Coda	English, German, French, Spanish
ConTEXT	English, German, French, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish
Crimson Editor	English
CudaText	Main: English. Addons: Japanese, French, Polish, Korean, Hungarian (2018), Greek, German (2017), and 9 others
ed
EditPlus	English, Korean
Editra	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
EmEditor	English, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish
epsilon	English
Geany	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
gedit	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
GNU Emacs	English
JED	English
jEdit	English
JOE[7]	English, German, French
JOVE	English
Kate[8]	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
KEDIT	English
Komodo Edit	English
KWrite	English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
Metapad[9]	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
mined	English
MS-DOS Editor	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Nano	English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese
NEdit	English
Notepad	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
Notepad++	English, German, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Hindi
Notepad2	English, German, French, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
NoteTab	English
nvi	English
Pico	English, Italian
PolyEdit	English
PSPad	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Q10	English, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish
RJ TextEd	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Sam	English
SciTE[10]	English, German, French (Outdated (1.72)), Polish, Japanese (Outdated (1.62)), Italian, Dutch (Outdated (1.67)), Portuguese (Outdated (1.63)), Spanish, Swedish
SlickEdit	English
Smultron	English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish
Source Insight	English
SubEthaEdit	English
TED Notepad	English
TextEdit	English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
TextMate	English
TextPad	English, German, French, Polish (Outdated (4.7.3)), Japanese, Italian(Outdated (4.7.3)), Dutch (Outdated (4.7.3)), Spanish (Outdated (4.7.3)), Portuguese (Outdated (4.7.3))
TextWrangler	English
The SemWare Editor	English
UltraEdit	English, German, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese
VEDIT	English
vi	English
Vim	Afrikaans, Catalan, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, English(UK), English(US), Esperanto, Finnish, French, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian(Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese(Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Visual Studio Code	English, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
XEmacs	English

Document interface

Text editor support for common document interfaces

	Multiple instances	Single document window splitting	MDI: overlappable windows	MDI: tabbed document interface	MDI: window splitting
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk
Atom
Aquamacs
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
EditPlus
Editra			?		?
EmEditor
Geany		Plug‑in
gedit		Plug‑in[11]			Plug‑in[12]
GNU Emacs				Plug‑in[13][14]
JED
jEdit
JOE				[15]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE
Light Table
Metapad
mined			[16]
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++					2 windows
Notepad2
NoteTab		?			2 windows
nvi
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
Q10
RJ TextEd
Sam
SciTE				[17]
SlickEdit
Smultron
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad	?	?	?		?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim			[18]	[19]
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs
	Multiple instances	Single document window splitting	MDI: overlappable windows	MDI: tabbed document interface	MDI: window splitting

Notes

• Multiple instances: multiple instances of the program can be opened simultaneously for editing multiple files. Applies both for single document interface (SDI) and multiple document interface (MDI) programs. Also applies for program that has a user interface that looks like multiple instances of the same program (such as some versions of Microsoft Word).
• Single document window splitting: window can be split to simultaneously view different areas of a file.
• MDI: Overlappable windows: each opened document gets its own fully movable window inside the editor environment.
• MDI: Tabbed document interface: multiple documents can be viewed as tabs in a single window.
• MDI: Window splitting: splitting application window to show multiple documents (non-overlapping windows).

Basic features

Text editor support for basic editing features

	Spell checking	Regex-based find & replace	Encoding conversion	Newline conversion	Multiple undo/redo	Rectangular block selection
Acme	external[20]
AkelPad	Plug‑in
Alphatk
Atom						Plug‑in
Aquamacs
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets	Plug‑in		Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT		Partial [21]	Partial [22]
Crimson Editor	Instant/live (like Firefox)
CudaText
ed
EditPlus
Editra			?	?	?
EmEditor
Geany	Plug‑in[23]
gedit	[24]	Plug‑in[25]				plug‑in [26]
GNU Emacs	Plug‑in[27]
JED
jEdit	Plug‑in[28]
JOE	Plug‑in[29]	Partial [30]	[31]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE			[32]
Light Table	Plug‑in[33]	?				?
Metapad	Partial [34]
mg		[35]		Partial	[35]
MinEd		[36]	[37]	[38]
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
	Spell checking	Regex-based find & replace	Encoding conversion	Newline conversion	Multiple undo/redo	Rectangular block selection
ne
NEdit	Plug‑in[39]
Notepad
Notepad++	[40]
Notepad2		Limited [41]
NoteTab
nvi						?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
Q10		?	?	?	?	?
RJ TextEd
Sam
SciTE		Limited [41]
SlickEdit
Smultron
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit						[42]
TED Notepad
TextEdit
TextMate			Partial
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit		Limited [43]
VEDIT	[44]
vi
Vim	[45]
Visual Studio Code	Plug‑in
XEmacs	Plug‑in[27]
	Spell checking	Regex-based find & replace	Encoding conversion	Newline conversion	Multiple undo/redo	Rectangular block selection

Programming features

Text editor support for programming features (see source code editor)

	Syntax highlighting	Function list	Symbol database (ctags or equiv.)	Brace matching	Auto indentation	Auto completion	Code folding	Text folding	Compiler integration
Acme		external[20]	external[20]			Partial [46]			external[20]
AkelPad	Plug‑in	Plug‑in	Plug‑in	Plug‑in		Plug‑in	Plug‑in		Plug‑in
Alphatk		?	?
Atom									Plug‑in
Aquamacs
BBEdit
Bluefish									[47]
Brackets									Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT		?	?
Crimson Editor			Partial [48]
CudaText				Plug‑in		Plug‑in			Plug‑in
ed									external[49]
EditPlus		[50]	Partial [48]			[51]
Editra		?	?			?		?	?
EmEditor		Plug‑in	Plug‑in			Plug‑in[52]
Geany			[53]				Partial
gedit		Plug‑in	Plug‑in			Plug‑in		Plug‑in[54]	[55]
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit		Plug‑in	Plug‑in						Plug‑in
JOE		?				?
JOVE
Kate		Plug‑in	Plug‑in						Plug‑in
KEDIT			Macro
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite		?	?
LE									[56]
Light Table									Partial [57]
Metapad
mined	[58]	?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
	Syntax highlighting	Function list	Symbol database (ctags or equiv.)	Bracket matching	Auto indentation	Auto completion	Code folding	Text folding	Compiler integration
ne
NEdit		Plug‑in				Plug‑in
Notepad
Notepad++		[59]	[60][61]			[62]
Notepad2
NoteTab	Partial [63]	?	?		?		?	?
nvi		?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad			Plug‑in
Q10	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
RJ TextEd
Sam									external[64]
SciTE		[65]	?
SlickEdit
Smultron							?	?	?
Source Insight									Limited
SubEthaEdit		?	?
TED Notepad		?	?
TextEdit
TextMate			Plug‑in			[66]
TextPad			Plug‑in[67]
TextWrangler									Plug‑in[68]
The SemWare Editor			Plug‑in[69]			[70]	Partial [71]
UltraEdit			Partial [72]
VEDIT						[73]
vi
Vim		Plug‑in[74]
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs		?
	Syntax highlighting	Function list	Symbol database (ctags or equiv.)	Bracket matching	Auto indentation	Auto completion	Code folding	Text folding	Compiler integration

Notes

• Syntax highlighting: Displays text in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms.
• Function list: Lists all functions from current file in a window or sidebar and allows user to jump directly to the definition of that function for example by double-clicking on the function name in the list. More or less realtime (does not require creating a symbol database, see below).
• Symbol database: Database of functions, variable and type definitions, macro definitions etc. in all the files belonging to the software being developed. The database can be created by the editor itself or by an external program such as ctags. The database can be used to instantly locate the definition even if it is in another file.
• Bracket matching: Find matching parenthesis or bracket, taking into account nesting.
• Auto indentation: May refer to just simple indenting to the same level as the line above, or intelligent indenting that is language specific, e.g., ensuring a given indent style.
• Compiler integration: Allows running compilers/linkers/debuggers from within editor, capturing the compiler output and stepping through errors, automatically moving cursor to corresponding location in the source file.

Extra features

Text editor support for other programming features

	Text shell integration	Graphical shell integration	Macro language	Collaborative editing	Large file support	Long line support	Multi-line regex support[75]	Search in files
Acme			Extensible		?	?		?
AkelPad					memory			Plug‑in
Alphatk			[76]		?	?	?	?
Aquamacs					memory	?		?
Atom	[77]	?	Plug‑in[78]		~27 MB	Soft-wrapping	[79]
BBEdit			[80]		memory [81]
Bluefish			?		?	?		?
Brackets			Extensible			?	Partial
Coda			[82]		?	?
ConTEXT					memory [83]	?		?
Crimson Editor						?		?
CudaText			Plug‑in		?	?		Plug‑in
ed				via mkfifo	?	?	?
EditPlus	?				memory	?
Editra	?	?	?	?	2 GB	?	?	?
EmEditor						?
Geany		?	Plug‑in	?	?	?
gedit			[84]	Plug‑in		?		Plug‑in[85]
GNU Emacs					memory[86]
JED					memory [87]			Plug‑ins
jEdit					(heap)[88]	?
JOE						?	?	[89]
JOVE					memory	?
Kate					[90]	Maybe [91]		Plug‑in
KEDIT						10Kb
Komodo Edit	?	?	[92]		?	?
Komodo IDE	?	?	[92]		?	?
KWrite					[90]	[93]		?
LE				[94]	memory [95]	?		?
Light Table					?	?
Metapad					memory [96]	?
mined	?	?	?	?	?	?		?
EDIT (MS-DOS)					(64~300 KB)
EDIT (DR-DOS)					2 GB, for as long as there is disk swap space for two temporary files
Nano					?	?	?	?
	Text shell integration	Graphical shell integration	Macro language	Collaborative editing	Large file support	Long line support	Multi-line regex support	Search in files
NEdit						?		?
Notepad					memory	?
Notepad++				[97]	2GB[98]	[99]
Notepad2					memory [100]	?		?
NoteTab	?	?		?		?	[101]	?
nvi				?	?	?	?	?
Pico	?	?	?		?	?	?	?
PolyEdit						?		?
PSPad					memory [102]	?	with plug‑in
Q10	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
RJ TextEd						?		?
Sam					?	?		external[64]
SciTE	?	?				?
SlickEdit					2 TB
Smultron	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Source Insight	?	?			?	?		?
SubEthaEdit					?	?		?
TED Notepad						?	?	?
TextEdit					?	?	?	?
TextMate						?		?
TextPad					memory [103]	?
TextWrangler					memory [104]			?
The SemWare Editor				Only in special DOS multi-user version	2 GB		?
UltraEdit					[105]
VEDIT
vi					~65 MB	?
Vim				with plug‑in[106]	memory [107]
Visual Studio Code				with plug‑in[108]	?	?
XEmacs					on 64-bit OS [109]	?
	Text shell integration	Graphical shell integration	Macro language	Collaborative editing	Large file support	Long line support	Multi-line regex support	Search in files

Large file support:

	= Larger than 4 GiB (LFS)	2 GB	= Larger than 1 GB, not limited by memory
memory	= Limited by available memory	(64 KB)	= Some limit less than available memory (give max size if known)

In general, most text editors do not support large text files. Some restrict themselves to available in-core RAM while others use sophisticated virtual memory management techniques and paging algorithms.[110]

Search in files: Perform search (and possibly replace) in multiple files on disk, for example on a sub-directory and recursively all the directories below it. Similar to grep.

Key bindings

Support for custom key bindings.

Text editor support for key bindings.

	Dynamically customizable	IBM CUA	macOS	Vi	Emacs	Pico	WordStar	WordPerfect	Brief
Acme
AkelPad		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Alphatk	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Aquamacs		?				?	?	?	?
BBEdit[111][112]		?		?		?	?	?	?
Bluefish		?		?	?	?	?	?	?
Brackets		Partial		Plug‑in	Plug‑in
Coda		?		?	?	?	?	?	?
ConTEXT	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Crimson Editor	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
CudaText		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
ed
EditPlus		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Editra
EmEditor		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
epsilon		?	?	?		?	?	?
Geany		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
gedit	[113]	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
GNU Emacs						Partial [114]	[115]	[116]	[116]
JED		Partial [117]	?			?		?
jEdit		?			?	?	?	?	?
JOE[118]
JOVE							[119]
LE		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Light Table		Partial	?	Plug‑in	Plug‑in	?	?	?	?
Kate				[120]
KEDIT
Komodo Edit		?				?	?	?	?
Komodo IDE		?				?	?	?	?
KWrite		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Metapad	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
mg	?	?	?	?		?	?	?	?
mined	?	?	?	?				?	?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano					Partial [121]
NEdit		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Notepad
Notepad++	Partial
Notepad2		?					?	?	?
NoteTab	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
nvi	?	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Pico					Partial [121]
PolyEdit	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
PSPad		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Q10	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
RJ TextEd		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Sam
SciTE	Partial [122]	?	?				?	?	?
SlickEdit	[123]		[124]	Partial [125]
Smultron	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Source Insight		?					?	?	?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
TextWrangler[111][126]		?					?	?	?
The SemWare Editor		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
UltraEdit		?		?	?	?	?	?	?
VEDIT				[127]
vi
Vim	Partial	Plug‑in[128]	Plug‑in[129]	[130]	Plug‑in[131]	Plug‑in[132]			Plug‑in[133]
Visual Studio Code				Plug‑in[134]	Plug‑in[135]
XEmacs						Partial [114]	[115]	[116]	[116]
	Dynamically customizable	IBM CUA	macOS	Vi	Emacs	Pico	WordStar	WordPerfect	Brief

Notes, bugs

• Vim: custom maps of Ctrl-1 .. Ctrl-9, Ctrl-0 cannot be set, nor is Control-Shift-<char> distinguished from Ctrl-<char>.[136][137]
• Notepad++: custom shortcuts of Shift-<char> cannot be set, they need an added modifier such as Ctrl or Alt. i.e. SCI_LINESCROLLUP cannot be bound to "Shift-I"as the "Add"button is greyed out.
• Emacs and Pico: pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc.

Protocol support

Support for editing files over a network or the Internet.

Text editor support for remote file editing over network protocols

	FTP	HTTP	SSH	WebDAV
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk
Aquamacs				[138]
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets	Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT	[139]	?	[139]	?
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
EditPlus
Editra	?	?	?	?
EmEditor
Geany
gedit
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit	plug‑in[140]	[141]	plug‑in[140]	plug‑in.
JOE
JOVE
LE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo IDE	FTP, FTPS, SFTP
KWrite
Metapad
mined	?	?	?	?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
	FTP	HTTP	SSH	WebDAV
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++	Plug‑in for FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP		Plug‑in
Notepad2
NoteTab	[142]	?	[142]	?
nvi
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
Q10	?	?	?	?
RJ TextEd	FTP, SFTP
Sam
SciTE
SlickEdit
Smultron		?	?	?
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad	[143]	?	[143]	?
TextEdit
TextMate	[138]
TextPad
TextWrangler	FTP, SFTP[144]
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim	[145]	[145]	[145]	[145]
Visual Studio Code	Plug‑in[146]	Plug‑in (limited?)[146]	Plug‑in[146]	Plug‑in[146]
XEmacs				?
	FTP	HTTP	SSH	WebDAV

Unicode and other character encodings

To support specified character encoding, the editor must be able to load, save, view and edit text in the specific encoding and not destroy any characters. For UTF-8 and UTF-16, this requires internal 16-bit character support.

Partial support is indicated if: 1) the editor can only convert the character encoding to internal (8-bit) format for editing. 2) If some encodings are supported only in some platforms. 3) If the editor can only display specific character set (such as OEM) by loading corresponding font, but does not support keyboard entry for that character set.

Text editor support for some of the most common character encodings

	ASCII	ISO-8859	DOS (OEM)	EBCDIC	UTF-8	UTF-16
Acme		?	?	?		?
AkelPad
Alphatk		?	?	?
Aquamacs				?
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda				?
ConTEXT			Partial [147]
Crimson Editor			Partial [147]		Partial
CudaText				?
ed		?	?	?
EditPlus		?		?
Editra
EmEditor
Geany				?
gedit			?	?
GNU Emacs					[148]	[149]
JED				?		Partial [150]
jEdit
JOE		?	?	?
JOVE
LE		?	?	?
Kate			?	?
KEDIT			Partial [147]
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite		?	?	?
Metapad			Partial [147]
mined				?
MS-DOS Editor		?		?	?	?
Nano			?	?
	ASCII	ISO-8859	DOS (OEM)	EBCDIC	UTF-8	UTF-16
NEdit		?	?	?
Notepad			Partial [147]
Notepad++				plug‑in?
Notepad2
NoteTab		?			Partial [151]	Partial [151]
nvi		?	?	?	[152]
Pico
PolyEdit		?	?	?
PSPad				?
Q10	?	?	?	?	?	?
RJ TextEd
Sam		?	?	?
SciTE[153]
SlickEdit
Smultron		?	?	?
Source Insight		?	?	?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad		?	?	?
TextEdit			?	?
TextMate			?	?
TextPad		?	?	?	Partial [154]	Partial [154]
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor		[155]	Partial [147]	Plug‑in
UltraEdit
VEDIT					Partial [156]	Partial [156]
vi		?	?	?
Vim				Partial [157]
Visual Studio Code				[158]
XEmacs			?	?	[159]
	ASCII	ISO-8859	DOS (OEM)	EBCDIC	UTF-8	UTF-16

Right-to-left and bidirectional text

Support for Right-To-Left (RTL) texts is necessary for editing some languages like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish and the mixture of left to right (LTR) and RTL known as bi-directional (BiDi) support.

Depending on the algorithm used in the programs it might only render the bidirectional text correctly but may not be able to edit them. (e.g. Notepad++ 5.1.3 shows bidirectional texts correctly but cannot edit it and user should change the text direction to RTL to be able to edit RTL texts correctly.)

Right to left (RTL) & bidirectional (bidi) support

	Right-to-left (RTL)	Bi-directional (Bidi)
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk	?	?
Aquamacs	?	?
Atom
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets	?	?
Coda	?	?
ConTEXT	?	?
Crimson Editor	?	?
ed	?	?
EditPlus
Editra	?	?
EmEditor
Geany	?	?
gedit
GNU Emacs		[160]
JED	?	?
jEdit
JOE	?	?
JOVE
LE	?	?
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite	?	?
Metapad	?	?
MS-DOS Editor	?	?
mined	[161]	[161]
Nano	?	?
	RTL	Bidi
NEdit	?	?
Notepad
Notepad++		Partial [162]
Notepad2
NoteTab	?	?
nvi	?	?
Pico	?	?
PolyEdit	?	?
PSPad	?	?
Q10	?	?
RJ TextEd
Sam
SciTE
SlickEdit	?	?
Smultron	?	?
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad	?	?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad	?	?
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT	?	?
vi	?	?
Vim		through terminal support
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs	?	?
	RTL	Bidi

Newline support

Support for newline characters in line endings

	Windows (CR/LF)	Unix-like systems (including macOS)[163] (LF)	Classic Mac OS (CR)
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk
Aquamacs
Atom
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
EditPlus
Editra
EmEditor
Geany
gedit
GNU Emacs[164]
JED
jEdit
JOE[165]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE
Metapad			?
MS-DOS Editor
mined
Nano
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++
Notepad2
NoteTab
nvi	?		?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
Q10
RJ TextEd
Sam	?	?	?
SciTE
SlickEdit
Smultron
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim
Visual Studio Code
XEmacs
	Windows (CR/LF)	Unix-like systems (including macOS) (LF)	Classic Mac OS (CR)

See also

• Editor war
• Comparison of
  • word processors
  • integrated development environments
  • HTML editors
  • TeX editors
  • hex editors
  • notetaking software
  • wiki software
• Lists of
  • text editors
  • wiki software
  • personal information managers
  • outliners for
    • desktops
    • mobile devices
    • web-based

Notes and references

1. GEdit, when installed from MacPorts, runs in X11 and, therefore, does not have a native look and feel. However, precompiled native macOS binaries for GEdit may be downloaded from the GEdit project page, or from the GEdit FTP download server.
2. Includes 1.34M S-Lang Runtime
3. No native support, available as a part of the Inferno port for Windows.
4. Requires Cygwin to run on Windows.
5. "New Features in Epsilon 13". www.lugaru.com.
6. gedit, NEdit, and SciTE run in the X11 window environment, and therefore do not use the native Aqua look-and-feel when running on macOS.
7. "JOE - Joe's own editor". JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /po. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
8. "KDE Localization - Apps » stable » kate.po". l10n.kde.org.
9. "Metapad language plugins". liquidninja.com.
10. "Localised SciTE". scintilla.org.
11. gedit supports single document window splitting via plug‑ins. Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
12. gedit supports multiple document window splitting via plug‑ins. Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
13. GNU Emacs can use a tabbed document interface in a non OS-native way, using the tabbar plug‑in.
14. GNU Emacs can support a tabbed document interface modelled after GNU Screen using the elscreen Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine package.
15. JOE supports editing multiple files but only seeing one of them, and switching to others via Ctrl+K+N, which is functionally equivalent to having tabs but no visible tab bar.
16. mined supports Copy/Paste between multiple documents in separate windows, when these documents are in separate terminal windows
17. SciTE has a maximum number of buffers, which can only be set as high as 100.
18. Vim Provided GVim is used.
19. Vim version 7 supports a tabbed document interface. Earlier versions can emulate tabs through scripts, for example TabBar.
20. Acme can invoke external commands and display their return values in order to integrate additional functionality.
21. ConTEXT does not support regular expression backreferences in its search and replace function. Archived 2007-12-18 at Archive.today
22. ConTEXT only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16.
23. Geany supports spell checking via a plug‑in
24. gedit supports spell checking via a plug‑in, which is distributed with gedit.
25. gedit supports Regex-based find & replace via plug‑ins ( Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine).
26. "Gedit/Plugins/ColumnMode - GNOME Wiki!". Archived from the original on 2012-01-11.
27. Emacs supports spell checking via the external programs ispell, aspell, or Hunspell.
28. jEdit supports spell checking via an external plug‑in.
29. JOE supports spell checking via the ispell or aspell external plug‑ins.
30. JOE uses a non-standard regular expression syntax.
31. JOE can easily pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility; it detects locale settings and allows editing in any encoding set up by the environment.
32. LE can pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility
33. "GitHub - rschroll/lt-spelling: Spell check plugin for Light Table". April 29, 2015 – via GitHub.
34. Metapad spell checking by calling external program Aspell.
35. "Super User's BSD Cross Reference: /OpenBSD/usr.bin/mg/re_search.c". bxr.su.
36. mined supports multiple lines in search and replacement expressions.
37. mined can convert the encoding format when using the Copy & Paste feature between multiple documents (that have different encodings).
38. mined supports new-line conversion via a command-line option or from the menu. Files with mixed newline types can be edited transparently; different kinds of new-line have different visual indications.
39. NEdit supports spell checking via a plug‑in
40. Notepad++ 6.3.3 and above support spell checking via the DSpellCheck plug‑in, which is included with the default package.
41. Scintilla-based editors such as SciTE, Notepad2 and Notepad++ do not support alternation (|) in regular expressions.
42. SubEthaEdit supports advanced block editing, including multi-line typing and non-contiguous block selections.
43. UltraEdit uses the Boost C++ regex library. While Boost supports backreferences past \9 with \g{10}, UltraEdit has not yet implemented this feature.
44. VEDIT 6.2 comes with Scribe spelling checker which has been written entirely in Vedit macro language. In addition, macro package for integrating Aspell can be downloaded here.
45. Vim version 7 supports spell checking natively. Earlier versions require a script shown here.
46. Acme's auto-completion only works on file names.
47. bluefish: Configurable via the outputbox feature.
48. With external tool OpenCTags
49. ed can invoke external commands, like a compiler.
50. editplus: Opens in a window, not really integrated.
51. editplus: Enabled by editing the corresponding .acp file.
52. EmEditor Professional supports Auto Complete via plug‑ins (32-bit or 64-bit).
53. Geany uses its own tags file format, not compatible with ctags, see the manual.
54. gedit-folding: Folding plug‑in for Gedit
55. gedit: Compiler integration: Functionality in plug‑ins installed with gedit.
56. make can be launched from the LE text editor, but the output is not captured
57. Evaluates expressions in some dynamic languages such as Clojure, Python and Javascript in realtime
58. mined: Syntax highlighting: HTML/XML, Javascript, JSP.
59. Notepad++ comes with Function List support, and it can be enhanced via plugins.
60. "GitHub - ffes/npptags: Universal Ctags plug-in for Notepad++". March 7, 2019 – via GitHub.
61. "NotePad++ Plugin. Allows to connect to SQL Servers, execute SQL commands and views results: vladk1973/npp.connections". June 21, 2019 – via GitHub.
62. Notepad++ installs with auto complete list for multiple programming languages. Has user option to add additional personalized auto complete list(s).
63. NoteTab: Syntax highlighting only for html documents and NoteTab clip/scripts.
64. It is possible to start external applications from inside Sam and display their return values.
65. Function list (and stuff) available in Ru-Board build, ver 1.79.66Ru and later
66. TextMate: Auto complete: Supported language bundles
67. Textpad uses an add-on ()
68. TextWrangler can integrate with a compiler if you write a shell script that takes flag input of the code and compiles it. You place this in ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Unix Support/Unix Filters/. It should show in the #! menu.
69. "TSE-Pro Files". www.semware.com.
70. The Semware Editor: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
71. The Semware Editor: Text folding: Compressed view possible.
72. Not in the Linux version.
73. Vedit: Auto complete: Template editing, plus 3rd party macro for expanding symbols from tags database.
74. Vim has a popular TagList plug‑in that provides a function list.
75. Multi-line regex support Support for expressions spanning several lines (e.g. "\n\n(.+)\n\n")
76. Alpha Macro support via AppleScript, Tcl or text factories.
77. "Feature Request: Integrated Shell/Terminal Access · Issue #14490 · atom/atom". GitHub.
78. "atom-macros". Atom.
79. "Multi-line find and replace in project · Issue #398 · atom/find-and-replace". GitHub.
80. BBEdit Macro support via AppleScript, Perl, Python, Lasso, shell scripts or text factories.
81. "Handling large files presents no intrinsic problems for BBEdit, though some specific operations may be limited when dealing with files over 2GB in size." BBEdit FAQs Archived 2019-07-29 at the Wayback Machine.
82. Coda offers macros via AppleScript, text "clips,"or plug‑ins (Cocoa apps or any installed scripting language).
83. ConTEXT claims Large File Support but load time is proportional to file size and a 1 GB file gave an Out of Memory error.
84. Cssed Macro support via Python.
85. "Gedit File Search Plugin". oliver.github.io.
86. "Buffers". A buffer’s size cannot be larger than some maximum, which is defined by the largest buffer position representable by Emacs integers. This is because Emacs tracks buffer positions using that data type. For typical 64-bit machines, this maximum buffer size is 2^{61} - 2 bytes, or about 2 EiB. For typical 32-bit machines, the maximum is usually 2^{29} - 2 bytes, or about 512 MiB. Buffer sizes are also limited by the amount of memory in the system.
87. "The JED Editor" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-05. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
88. jEdit: Limited by Java heap size. jedit-users forum
89. "JOE - Joe's Own Editor". JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md. Retrieved 23 October 2015. The search covers all loaded buffers.
90. kwrite-devel, Large Files open slowly due to futile Syntax-Highlighting
91. Kate: Line length is limited by default. The limit can be removed, but long lines may cause poor performance. The Kate Handbook
92. "Macros". docs.activestate.com.
93. Lines longer than ~700 characters frequently cause crashes. KatePart documentation (which is also the KWrite documentation, see here)
94. LE text editor locks the file and warns if someone else has changed the file
95. LE text editor can view and edit large files or their parts in mmap-shared mode
96. metapad FAQ, Loading Large Files
97. "Notepad++ - How to Remotely work on the Same File in Real Time" – via www.youtube.com.
98. "Text limit". Community. January 16, 2019.
99. "Configurable through settings".
100. "Notepad2 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)". www.flos-freeware.ch.
101. NoteTab: Standard and Pro versions only.
102. "PSPad forum / Bug report / Hlášení chyb / cannot open large file". forum.pspad.com.
103. "Edit large mbox files - MozillaZine Knowledge Base". kb.mozillazine.org.
104. "TextWrangler is a RAM-based editor, and it uses system memory to hold open files. TextWrangler also represents open documents as Unicode, which uses two bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS X limitation, this means that you can open files up to 384 megabytes in size." TextWrangler FAQs Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine.
105. UltraEdit has no real limit on file size - and can easily open, edit, and save large text files in excess of 4 GB! .
106. "GitHub - FredKSchott/CoVim: Collaborative Editing for Vim". November 13, 2019 – via GitHub.
107. 2GB with 32 Bits, on a 64 Bit system it depends on the available virtual memory.
108. "Live Share - Visual Studio Marketplace". marketplace.visualstudio.com.
109. Emacs: 64-bit compilation on 64-bit OS can handle 2 GB files, otherwise the limit is 512 MiB.
110. Comparison of Windows Text Editors for Large Files: Text editors for large files
111. "Bare Bones Software | BBEdit Comparison Chart". www.barebones.com.
112. "Bare Bones Software | Features". www.barebones.com.
113. It is possible to customize all Gedit shortcuts because it is Gtk based.
114. pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc. See Pico: A Unix text editor Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 2012‑01‑09.
115. GNU Emacs can have Wordstar emulation, with the command M-x wordstar-mode, as found from ws-mode.el retrieved 2017‑03‑14. See also the "Emulation"section of the GNU Emacs manual Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
116. "45 Emulation". GNU Emacs manual. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
117. The JED base release comes with a basic CUA emulation, but it doesn't bother to bind lots of useful editor features. Also, like some other editors, 1 side of a region must be at the cursor. The main extension collections jedmodes/jed-extra and the "Red Project" have improved versions, tackling the former problem in particular.
118. "JOE - Joe's Own Editor". JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md. Retrieved 23 October 2015. JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close imitation of WordStar […]. JPICO is a close imitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO editor […]. JMACS is a GNU-EMACS imitation. […] Key binding tables are defined. You can define as many as you like […].
119. "Usenet". www.megalextoria.com.
120. Kate supports an optional VI Input Mode Archived 2009-02-28 at the Wayback Machine.
121. pico (and nano) uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc. See Pico: A Unix text editor Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 2012‑01‑09.
122. In SciTE, custom keystrokes may be assigned to Lua scripts, external programs or lexers (highlighters).
123. SlickEdit provides emulation of VisualStudio, Visual C++ 6, CodeWright, Epsilon and ISPF key bindings in addition to those given in the table.
124. SlickEdit supports CodeWarrior, Xcode and BBEdit key binding emulation.
125. SlickEdit includes support of vi key bindings, the ex command line and some, but not all Vim extensions.
126. "Bare Bones Software | TextWrangler Features". www.barebones.com. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
127. Vedit: Old Unix and QNX versions could emulate Vi 100%. Windows version doesn't come with vi emulation.
128. "GitHub - fabi1cazenave/cua-mode.vim: Make CTRL-ZXCV behave like in Notepad". February 26, 2019 – via GitHub.
129. "GitHub - likaci/ViFinder: Vim like Keybinding FileManager for OS X." October 13, 2019 – via GitHub.
130. Vim emulates vi keys fully when in 'compatible' mode
131. Vim With a script such as Vimacs
132. "GitHub - LnL7/vim-pico: Vim configuration files for Pico". September 2, 2014 – via GitHub.
133. "brief.vim - Brief editor key binding emulation in Vim : vim online". www.vim.org.
134. "Vim - Visual Studio Marketplace". marketplace.visualstudio.com.
135. "Emacs - Visual Studio Marketplace". marketplace.visualstudio.com.
136. "Vim - General - unable to map ctrl-1". vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
137. "Vim - General - How to map (say) Ctrl-Shift-B". vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
138. Aquamacs Supported via a macOS mounted volume.
139. Text Editor Features Archived 2007-12-18 at Archive.today at ConTEXT.cx
140. jEdit FTP and SFTP are supported via the FTP plug‑in.
141. jEdit: "HTTP is supported natively"
142. Comparison Chart at NoteTab.com
143. "TED Notepad". jsimlo.sk.
144. "Bare Bones Software | TextWrangler Tour". www.barebones.com.
145. Vim Supported via netrw plug‑in distributed in the standard Vim installation.
146. "Remote Workspace - Visual Studio Marketplace". marketplace.visualstudio.com.
147. when choosing e.g. Terminal font
148. GNU Emacs: While GNU Emacs supports the UTF-8 encoding, it doesn't fully support the Unicode standard, since it doesn't fully support the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section below).
149. GNU Emacs: While GNU Emacs supports the UTF-16 encoding, it doesn't fully support the Unicode standard, since it doesn't fully support the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section below).
150. JEDs ms-Windows version comes with a pair of scripts that can convert UTF-16 text files (actually anything iconv can convert) to and from JED's internal UTF-8. The Red Project releases include an enhanced version of these scripts.
151. Although NoteTab is not a native Unicode editor, you can open, edit, convert, and save such files reliably as long as all the text fits within a single ANSI code page supported by Windows.
152. nvi Gentoo
153. SciTE can open files in UTF or one single-byte encoding specified in a configuration file.
154. TextPad can load and save UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, but cannot use or even preserve characters outside of the system encoding.
155. when choosing e.g. New Courier font
156. Vedit can convert UTF-8 and UTF-16 files to Windows character set and back. Characters not included in Windows charset can be preserved.
157. Vim supports EBCDIC when compiled on a system that uses the EBCDIC character set.
158. "Support EBCDIC encodings · Issue #49891 · microsoft/vscode". GitHub.
159. from version 21.5.29
160. GNU Emacs
     
     (1) According to a comment in the source file where the bidi support is implemented (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/bidi.c accessed August 15, 2017), GNU Emacs doesn't fully conform to the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Unicode Annex #9, a.k.a. UAX #9) in the way it wraps the lines of a bidi paragraph: "we are violating paragraph 3.4 of UAX#9. which mandates that line breaking shall be done before reordering each screen line separately."
     
     (2) According to the online GNU Emacs manual (section 22.19 Bidirectional Editing, accessed August 15, 2017), for the purpose of changing paragraph direction, "Paragraph boundaries are empty lines, i.e., lines consisting entirely of whitespace character". This contrasts with the otherwise ubiquitous convention of regarding the newline marker (LF on Unix derivatives, including macOS, and CR+LF on Windows) as the paragraph separator in plain text documents. However starting with version 26.0.50, the bidi paragraph separator can be customized.
161. mined: supports bidi in cooperation with bidi terminal (mlterm, mintty); also supports "poor man's bidi mode"(automatic visual text order right-to-left input) in normal terminal
162. Notepadpp: Scintilla (Notepad++'s Engine) does not really support bidirectional editing ... Some bidirectional text support added in 4.1.0. https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/757/#01c9
163. "Did Mac OS Lion switch to using line feeds (LF '\n') for line breaks instead of carriage returns (CR '\r')?". Super User.
164. GNU Emacs: GNU Emacs doesn't regard the newline marker as a paragraph separator in bidi texts. See comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section.
165. "JOE - Joe's Own Editor". JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md. Retrieved 23 October 2015. character sets must use LF (0x0A) or CR-LF (0x0D - 0x0A) as line terminators […]. […] character sets which use CR terminated lines (MACs) will not yet work.