Introduction
This site provides a comprehensive list of text editors, with information which will help you choose the editor that suits your file editing needs. We cover text editors for all major platforms, as well as hex, rtf and other editors and viewers.
Categories
Text editors are categorized into the following sections (note that a text editor can appear in multiple categories):
- Best text editors
- These are the best text editors available. Editors are ranked based on user ratings, functionality and performance
- Free text editors
- This section contains the list of free text editors. Only the more advanced editors are included, since simpler editors are generally free
- Notepad replacements
- These are simpler editors which can serve as a replacement for the Windows Notepad. They are not full featured editors (single document interface), but still provide many more features than Notepad, and are fast.
- Windows text editors
- Text editors for the Windows OS
- Cross platform editors
- Text editors that run on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
- Linux text editors
- Text editors for Linux
- Hex editors
- Editors that allow you to inspect and edit binary files in hex mode
- Unicode editors
- Text editors that support Unicode
- USB text editors
- Text editors that you can carry on your USB drive
- HTML text editors
- Editors that support editing of HTML documents. While you can write HTML documents in any text editor, these provide specific support for their easier generation.
- Rich text editors
- Editors that support editing of RTF (Rich Text Format) files
- Text viewers
- These are applications that support text viewing without editing. They are useful for viewing extremely large files (in the GB range)
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