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 13.5.4 2021‑01‑06 Objective-C, Objective-C++ Free for most features, $49.99 for full version Proprietary 57.7 MB
Bluefish Bluefish Development Team 1999 2.2.12 2020‑11‑05 C Free GPL
Brackets Adobe Systems 2012 1.14 2019‑05‑02 HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++ Free MIT ~ 64‑105 MB
Coda Panic 2007 2.7.6 2020‑10‑12[1] 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
Editra Cody Precord 2007 0.7.20 2013‑01‑05 Python Free wxWindows license
EmEditor Emurasoft, Inc. 1997 20.3.3 2020‑12‑02 C++ 179.99 Shareware
epsilon Lugaru Software 1984 14.00 2020‑10‑20[2] C $250 Proprietary
gedit GNU Project 2000 3.28.2 (Win 3.20.1, Mac 3.2.6[lower-alpha 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 27.1 2020‑08‑10 C, Emacs Lisp Free GPL 11.6 MB
GNU nano Chris Allegretta 1999 5.0 2020‑07‑29 C Free GPL 0.6 MB
IA Writer Information Architects September 22, 2010 5.6 2020‑12‑07 Objective-C (iOS), Objective-C (macOS), C# (Windows), Java (Android) $29.99 Proprietary ~ 12‑40 MB
JED John E. Davis 1992 0.99‑19 2009‑12‑13 C, S-Lang Free GPL 3.5 MB[lower-alpha 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 20.08.3 2020‑11‑23 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 2020‑07‑22[lower-alpha 3] 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
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
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 25.0.0 2020‑10‑20 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
[lower-alpha 4]
AkelPad
Alphatk
Aquamacs
Atom
Arachnophilia
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed Partial
[lower-alpha 5]
Editra ? ? ?
EmEditor
epsilon
[4]
Geany
gedit
[lower-alpha 1]
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit
JOE
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit ? ?
Komodo IDE ? ?
KWrite
LE Partial
[lower-alpha 5]
Light Table
Metapad
mg ?
MinEd
GNU nano
ne Partial
[lower-alpha 5]
NEdit Partial
[lower-alpha 5]
[lower-alpha 6]
Notepad
Notepad++
nvi
Pico
PSPad
RJ TextEd
Sam Partial
[lower-alpha 4]
SciTE
[lower-alpha 6]
SlickEdit
Smultron
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
Sublime Text
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
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[5] English, German, French
JOVE English
Kate[6] English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
KEDIT English
Komodo Edit English
KWrite English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
Metapad[7] 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
nvi English
Pico English, Italian
PolyEdit English
PSPad English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
RJ TextEd English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Sam English
SciTE[8] 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
Editra ? ?
EmEditor
Geany
Plug‑in
gedit
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 7]
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 8]
GNU Emacs
[lower-alpha 9][lower-alpha 10]
JED
jEdit
JOE
[lower-alpha 11]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE
Light Table
Metapad
mined
[lower-alpha 12]
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++
2 windows
nvi
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
RJ TextEd
Sam
SciTE
[lower-alpha 13]
SlickEdit
Smultron
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad ? ? ? ?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim
[lower-alpha 14]
[lower-alpha 15]
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[lower-alpha 16]
AkelPad
Plug‑in
Alphatk
Atom
Plug‑in
Aquamacs
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT Partial
[lower-alpha 17]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 18]
Crimson Editor
Instant/live (like Firefox)
CudaText
ed
Editra ? ? ?
EmEditor
Geany
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 19]
gedit
[lower-alpha 20]
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 21]		 plug‑in
[10]
GNU Emacs
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 22]
JED
jEdit
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 23]
JOE
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 24]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 25]
[lower-alpha 26]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE
[lower-alpha 27]
Light Table
Plug‑in[11]		 ? ?
Metapad Partial
[lower-alpha 28]
mg
[12]		 Partial
[12]
MinEd
[lower-alpha 29]
[lower-alpha 30]
[lower-alpha 31]
MS-DOS Editor
Nano
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection
ne
NEdit
Plug‑in[13]
Notepad
Notepad++
[14]
nvi ?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
RJ TextEd
Sam
SciTE Limited
[lower-alpha 32]
SlickEdit
Smultron
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
[15]
TED Notepad
TextEdit
TextMate Partial
TextPad
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit Limited
[lower-alpha 33]
VEDIT
[lower-alpha 34]
vi
Vim
[lower-alpha 35]
Visual Studio Code
Plug‑in
XEmacs
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 22]
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[lower-alpha 16]
external[lower-alpha 16]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 36]
external[lower-alpha 16]
AkelPad
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Alphatk ? ?
Atom
Plug‑in
Aquamacs
BBEdit
Bluefish
[lower-alpha 37]
Brackets
Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT ? ?
Crimson Editor Partial
[lower-alpha 38]
CudaText
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
ed
external[lower-alpha 39]
Editra ? ? ? ? ?
EmEditor
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 40]
Geany
[lower-alpha 41]		 Partial
gedit
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 42]
[lower-alpha 43]
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
[lower-alpha 44]
Light Table Partial
[lower-alpha 45]
Metapad
mined
[lower-alpha 46]		 ?
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++
[lower-alpha 47]
[17][18]
[lower-alpha 48]
nvi ?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
Plug‑in
RJ TextEd
Sam
external[lower-alpha 49]
SciTE
[lower-alpha 50]		 ?
SlickEdit
Smultron ? ? ?
Source Insight
Limited
SubEthaEdit ? ?
TED Notepad ? ?
TextEdit
TextMate
Plug‑in
[lower-alpha 51]
TextPad
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 52]
TextWrangler
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 53]
The SemWare Editor
Plug‑in[19]
[lower-alpha 54]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 55]
UltraEdit Partial
[lower-alpha 56]
VEDIT
<[lower-alpha 57]
vi
Vim
Plug‑in[20]
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[lower-alpha 58] Search in files
Acme
Extensible		 ? ? ?
AkelPad memory
Plug‑in
Alphatk
[lower-alpha 59]		 ? ? ? ?
Aquamacs memory ? ?
Atom
[21]		 ?
Plug‑in[22]		 ~27 MB Soft-wrapping
[23]
BBEdit
[lower-alpha 60]		 memory
[24]
Bluefish ? ? ? ?
Brackets
Extensible		 ? Partial
Coda
[lower-alpha 61]		 ? ?
ConTEXT memory
[lower-alpha 62]		 ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ?
CudaText
Plug‑in		 ? ?
Plug‑in
ed
via mkfifo		 ? ? ?
Editra ? ? ? ?
2 GB		 ? ? ?
EmEditor ?
Geany ?
Plug‑in		 ? ? ?
gedit
[lower-alpha 63]
Plug‑in		 ?
Plug‑in[25]
GNU Emacs memory[26]
JED memory
[27]
Plug‑ins
jEdit (heap)[lower-alpha 64] ?
JOE ? ?
[29]
JOVE memory ?
Kate
[30]		 Maybe
[lower-alpha 65]
Plug‑in
KEDIT 10Kb
Komodo Edit ? ?
[32]		 ? ?
Komodo IDE ? ?
[32]		 ? ?
KWrite
[30]
[33]		 ?
LE
[lower-alpha 66]		 memory
[lower-alpha 67]		 ? ?
Light Table ? ?
Metapad memory
[34]		 ?
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++
[35]
2GB[36]
[37]
nvi ? ? ? ? ?
Pico ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PolyEdit ? ?
PSPad memory
[38]		 ?
with plug‑in
RJ TextEd ? ?
Sam ? ?
external[lower-alpha 49]
SciTE ? ? ?
SlickEdit
2 TB
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Source Insight ? ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit ? ? ?
TED Notepad ? ? ?
TextEdit ? ? ? ?
TextMate ? ?
TextPad memory
[39]		 ?
TextWrangler memory
[40]		 ?
The SemWare Editor Only in special DOS multi-user version
2 GB		 ?
UltraEdit
[lower-alpha 68]
VEDIT
vi ~65 MB ?
Vim
with plug‑in[41]		 memory
[lower-alpha 69]
Visual Studio Code
with plug‑in[42]		 ? ?
XEmacs name=EmacsFSLimit|Emacs: 64-bit compilation on 64-bit OS can handle 2 GB files, otherwise the limit is 512 MiB. }} ?
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.[43]

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 ? ? ? ? ?
Atom ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
BBEdit[44][45] ? ? ? ? ? ?
Bluefish ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Brackets Partial
Plug‑in
Plug‑in
Coda ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ConTEXT ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
CudaText ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ed
Editra
EmEditor ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
epsilon ? ? ? ? ? ?
Geany ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
gedit
[lower-alpha 70]		 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
GNU Emacs Partial
[46]
[47]
[48]
[48]
JED Partial
[lower-alpha 71]		 ? ? ?
jEdit ? ? ? ? ? ?
JOE[49]
JOVE
[50]
LE ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Light Table Partial ?
Plug‑in
Plug‑in		 ? ? ? ?
Kate
[51]
KEDIT
Komodo Edit ? ? ? ? ?
Komodo IDE ? ? ? ? ?
KWrite ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Metapad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
mg ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
mined ? ? ? ? ? ?
MS-DOS Editor
Nano Partial
[52]
NEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Notepad
Notepad++ Partial
nvi ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Pico Partial
[52]
PolyEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PSPad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RJ TextEd ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sam
SciTE Partial
[lower-alpha 72]		 ? ? ? ? ?
SlickEdit
[lower-alpha 73]
[lower-alpha 74]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 75]
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Source Insight ? ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextEdit
TextMate
TextPad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextWrangler[44][53] ? ? ? ?
The SemWare Editor ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
UltraEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
VEDIT
[54]
vi
Vim Partial
Plug‑in[55]
Plug‑in[56]
[lower-alpha 76]
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 77]
Plug‑in[58]
Plug‑in[59]
Visual Studio Code
Plug‑in[60]
Plug‑in[61]
XEmacs Partial
[46]
[47]
[48]
[48]
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>.[62][63]
  • 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
[64]
Atom ? ? ? ?
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Plug‑in
Coda
ConTEXT
[65]		 ?
[65]		 ?
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
Editra ? ? ? ?
EmEditor
Geany
gedit
GNU Emacs
JED
jEdit
plug‑in[66]
[67]
plug‑in[66]
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
nvi
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
RJ TextEd
FTP, SFTP
Sam
SciTE
SlickEdit
Smultron ? ? ?
Source Insight
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad
[68]		 ?
[68]		 ?
TextEdit
TextMate
[64]
TextPad
TextWrangler
FTP, SFTP[69]
The SemWare Editor
UltraEdit
VEDIT
vi
Vim
[70]
[70]
[70]
[70]
Visual Studio Code
Plug‑in[71]
Plug‑in (limited?)[71]
Plug‑in[71]
Plug‑in[71]
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 ?
Atom ? ? ? ? ? ?
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda ?
ConTEXT Partial
[lower-alpha 78]
Crimson Editor Partial
[lower-alpha 78]		 Partial
CudaText ?
ed ? ? ?
Editra
EmEditor
Geany ?
gedit ? ?
GNU Emacs
[lower-alpha 79]
[lower-alpha 80]
JED ? Partial
[lower-alpha 81]
jEdit
JOE ? ? ?
JOVE
LE ? ? ?
Kate ? ?
KEDIT Partial
[lower-alpha 78]
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite ? ? ?
Metapad Partial
[lower-alpha 78]
mined ?
MS-DOS Editor ? ? ? ?
Nano ? ?
ASCII ISO-8859 DOS (OEM) EBCDIC UTF-8 UTF-16
NEdit ? ? ?
Notepad Partial
[lower-alpha 78]
Notepad++ plug‑in?
nvi ? ? ?
[lower-alpha 82]
Pico
PolyEdit ? ? ?
PSPad ?
RJ TextEd
Sam ? ? ?
SciTE[lower-alpha 83]
SlickEdit
Smultron ? ? ?
Source Insight ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit
TED Notepad ? ? ?
TextEdit ? ?
TextMate ? ?
TextPad ? ? ? Partial
[lower-alpha 84]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 84]
TextWrangler
The SemWare Editor
[lower-alpha 85]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 78]
Plug‑in
UltraEdit
VEDIT Partial
[lower-alpha 86]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 86]
vi ? ? ?
Vim Partial
[lower-alpha 87]
Visual Studio Code
[73]
XEmacs ? ?
[lower-alpha 88]
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 ? ?
Editra ? ?
EmEditor
Geany ? ?
gedit
GNU Emacs
[lower-alpha 89]
JED ? ?
jEdit
JOE ? ?
JOVE
LE ? ?
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite ? ?
Metapad ? ?
MS-DOS Editor ? ?
mined
[lower-alpha 90]
[lower-alpha 90]
Nano ? ?
RTL Bidi
NEdit ? ?
Notepad
Notepad++ Partial
[lower-alpha 91]
nvi ? ?
Pico ? ?
PolyEdit ? ?
PSPad ? ?
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)[74] (LF) Classic Mac OS (CR)
Acme
AkelPad
Alphatk
Aquamacs
Atom
BBEdit
Bluefish
Brackets
Coda
ConTEXT
Crimson Editor
CudaText
ed
Editra
EmEditor
Geany
gedit
GNU Emacs[lower-alpha 92]
JED
jEdit
JOE[75]
JOVE
Kate
KEDIT
Komodo Edit
Komodo IDE
KWrite
LE
Metapad ?
MS-DOS Editor
mined
Nano
NEdit
Notepad
Notepad++
nvi ? ?
Pico
PolyEdit
PSPad
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)

Notes
  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. last update in OpenBSD repo[3]
  4. No native support, available as a part of the Inferno port for Windows.
  5. Requires Cygwin to run on Windows.
  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. gedit supports single document window splitting via plug‑ins. Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. gedit supports multiple document window splitting via plug‑ins. Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. GNU Emacs 27.1 includes built-in support for tab bar (per-frame) and tab-line (per-window). Earlier versions of GNU Emacs can use a tabbed document interface in a non OS-native way using the Tabbar plug‑in.
  10. GNU Emacs can support a tabbed document interface modelled after GNU Screen using the elscreen Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine package.
  11. 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.
  12. mined supports Copy/Paste between multiple documents in separate windows, when these documents are in separate terminal windows
  13. SciTE_max_buffers
  14. Vim Provided GVim is used.
  15. Vim version 7 supports a tabbed document interface. Earlier versions can emulate tabs through scripts, for example [9].
  16. Acme can invoke external commands and display their return values in order to integrate additional functionality.
  17. ConTEXT does not support regular expression backreferences in its search and replace function. Archived 2007-12-18 at Archive.today
  18. ConTEXT only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16.
  19. Geany supports spell checking via a plug‑in
  20. gedit supports spell checking via a plug‑in, which is distributed with gedit.
  21. gedit supports Regex-based find & replace via plug‑ins ( Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine).
  22. Emacs supports spell checking via the external programs ispell, aspell, or Hunspell.
  23. jEdit supports spell checking via an external plug‑in.
  24. JOE supports spell checking via the ispell or aspell external plug‑ins.
  25. JOE uses a non-standard regular expression syntax.
  26. 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.
  27. LE can pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility
  28. Metapad spell checking by calling external program Aspell.
  29. mined supports multiple lines in search and replacement expressions.
  30. mined can convert the encoding format when using the Copy & Paste feature between multiple documents (that have different encodings).
  31. 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.
  32. Scintilla-based editors such as SciTE, Notepad2 and Notepad++ do not support alternation (
  33. UltraEdit uses the Boost C++ regex library. While Boost supports backreferences past \9 with \g{10}, UltraEdit has not yet implemented this feature.
  34. 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.
  35. Vim version 7 supports spell checking natively. Earlier versions require a script [16]
  36. Acme's auto-completion only works on file names.
  37. bluefish: Configurable via the outputbox feature.
  38. With external tool OpenCTags
  39. ed can invoke external commands, like a compiler.
  40. EmEditor Professional supports Auto Complete via plug‑ins (32-bit or 64-bit).
  41. Geany uses its own tags file format, not compatible with ctags, see the manual.
  42. gedit-folding: Folding plug‑in for Gedit
  43. gedit: Compiler integration: Functionality in plug‑ins installed with gedit.
  44. make can be launched from the LE text editor, but the output is not captured
  45. Evaluates expressions in some dynamic languages such as Clojure, Python and Javascript in realtime
  46. mined: Syntax highlighting: HTML/XML, Javascript, JSP.
  47. Notepad++ comes with Function List support, and it can be enhanced via plugins.
  48. Notepad++ installs with auto complete list for multiple programming languages. Has user option to add additional personalized auto complete list(s).
  49. It is possible to start external applications from inside Sam and display their return values.
  50. Function list (and stuff) available in Ru-Board build, ver 1.79.66Ru and later
  51. TextMate: Auto complete: Supported language bundles
  52. Textpad uses an add-on ()
  53. 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.
  54. The Semware Editor: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
  55. The Semware Editor: Text folding: Compressed view possible.
  56. Not in the Linux version.
  57. Vedit: Auto complete: Template editing, plus 3rd party macro for expanding symbols from tags database.
  58. Multi-line regex support Support for expressions spanning several lines (e.g. "\n\n(.+)\n\n")
  59. Alpha Macro support via AppleScript, Tcl or text factories.
  60. BBEdit Macro support via AppleScript, Perl, Python, Lasso, shell scripts or text factories.
  61. Coda offers macros via AppleScript, text "clips,"or plug‑ins (Cocoa apps or any installed scripting language).
  62. name
  63. Cssed Macro support via Python.
  64. jEdit: Limited by Java heap size. [28]
  65. Kate: Line length is limited by default. The limit can be removed, but long lines may cause poor performance. [31]
  66. LE text editor locks the file and warns if someone else has changed the file
  67. LE text editor can view and edit large files or their parts in mmap-shared mode
  68. UltraEdit has no real limit on file size - and can easily open, edit, and save large text files in excess of 4 GB! .
  69. 2GB with 32 Bits, on a 64 Bit system it depends on the available virtual memory.
  70. It is possible to customize all Gedit shortcuts because it is Gtk based.
  71. 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.
  72. In SciTE, custom keystrokes may be assigned to Lua scripts, external programs or lexers (highlighters).
  73. SlickEdit provides emulation of Visual Studio, Visual C++ 6, CodeWright, Epsilon and ISPF key bindings in addition to those given in the table.
  74. SlickEdit supports CodeWarrior, Xcode and BBEdit key binding emulation.
  75. SlickEdit includes support of vi key bindings, the ex command line and some, but not all Vim extensions.
  76. Vim emulates vi keys fully when in 'compatible' mode
  77. Vim With a script[57]
  78. when choosing e.g. Terminal font
  79. 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).
  80. 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).
  81. JEDs 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.
  82. nvi Gentoo
  83. SciTE can open files in UTF or one single-byte encoding specified in a configuration file.
  84. TextPad can load and save UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, but cannot use or even preserve characters outside of the system encoding. [72]
  85. when choosing e.g. New Courier font
  86. Vedit can convert UTF-8 and UTF-16 files to Windows character set and back. Characters not included in Windows charset can be preserved.
  87. Vim supports EBCDIC when compiled on a system that uses the EBCDIC character set.
  88. from version 21.5.29
  89. 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.
  90. 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
  91. 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
  92. 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.

See also

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  51. Kate supports an optional VI Input Mode Archived 2009-02-28 at the Wayback Machine.
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  66. jEdit FTP and SFTP are supported via the FTP plug‑in.
  67. jEdit: "HTTP is supported natively"
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  70. Vim Supported via netrw plug‑in distributed in the standard Vim installation.
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