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

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 3]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
AkelPad Yes No No No No No
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Atom Yes Yes Yes No No No
Arachnophilia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
BBEdit No Yes No No No No
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Brackets Yes Yes Yes No No No
Coda No Yes No No No No
ConTEXT Yes No No No No No
Crimson Editor Yes No No No No No
CudaText Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
ed Partial
[lower-alpha 4]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Editra Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
EmEditor Yes No No No No No
epsilon Yes Yes
[48]		 Yes Yes Yes No
Geany Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 5]		 Yes Yes Yes No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
JOE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
JOVE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KEDIT Yes No No No No No
Komodo Edit Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Komodo IDE Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
LE Partial
[lower-alpha 4]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Light Table Yes Yes Yes No No No
Metapad Yes No No No No No
mg No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
MinEd Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
GNU nano Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
ne Partial
[lower-alpha 4]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
NEdit Partial
[lower-alpha 4]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 6]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No No No No
Notepad++ Yes No No No No No
nvi No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Pico Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
PSPad Yes No No No No No
RJ TextEd Yes No No No No No
Sam Partial
[lower-alpha 3]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SciTE Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 6]		 Yes Yes Yes No
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Smultron No Yes No No No No
Source Insight Yes No No No No No
SubEthaEdit No Yes No No No No
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes No No No
TED Notepad Yes No No No No No
Textadept Yes Yes Yes No No No
TextEdit No Yes No No No No
TextMate No Yes No No No No
TextPad Yes No No No No No
TextWrangler No Yes No No No No
The SemWare Editor Yes No No No No No
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes No No No
Ulysses (text editor) No Yes No No No No
vi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Visual Studio Code Yes Yes Yes No No No
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XNEdit Partial
[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 7]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 6]		 Yes Yes Yes No
Microsoft Windows macOS Linux BSD Unix OpenVMS

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
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[49] English, German, French
JOVE English
Kate[50] English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
KEDIT English
Komodo Edit English
KWrite English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
Metapad[51] 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[52] 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
XNEdit 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 Yes Yes No No Yes
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Atom Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Brackets No No No Yes Yes
Coda Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ConTEXT Yes No Yes Yes No
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CudaText Yes Yes No Yes Yes
ed Yes No No No No
Editra Yes Yes ? Yes ?
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 No Yes No
gedit Yes Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 8]		 Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 9]
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 10][lower-alpha 11]		 Yes
JED Yes Yes No No Yes
jEdit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
JOE Yes Yes No No
[lower-alpha 12]		 Yes
JOVE Yes Yes No No Yes
Kate Yes Yes No Yes Yes
KEDIT Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Komodo Edit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Komodo IDE Yes Yes No Yes Yes
KWrite Yes No No No No
LE Yes No No No No
Light Table Yes No No Yes Yes
Metapad Yes No No No No
mined Yes No No
[lower-alpha 13]		 Yes No
MS-DOS Editor Yes Yes No No Yes
Nano Yes No No No No
NEdit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No Yes No
Notepad++ Yes Yes No Yes Yes
2 windows
nvi Yes Yes No No Yes
Pico Yes No No No No
PolyEdit No No Yes Yes Yes
PSPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RJ TextEd Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sam Yes No Yes No No
SciTE Yes No No Yes
[lower-alpha 14]		 No
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Source Insight Yes Yes Yes No No
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes No Yes No
TED Notepad ? ? ? No ?
TextEdit Yes No No No No
TextMate Yes No No Yes No
TextPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes No No Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
vi Yes No No No No
Vim Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 15]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 16]		 Yes
Visual Studio Code Yes Yes No Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XNEdit Yes Yes No Yes Yes
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 Virtual space support
Acme Yes
external[lower-alpha 17]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes No ?
AkelPad Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Atom Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 No
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No ?
Brackets Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 No Yes Yes ?
Coda Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
ConTEXT No Partial
[lower-alpha 18]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 19]		 Yes Yes Yes ?
Crimson Editor Yes
Instant/live (like Firefox)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
CudaText No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
ed No Yes No No No No ?
Editra Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes ?
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 20]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[54]
gedit Yes
[lower-alpha 21]		 Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 22]		 Yes Yes Yes plug‑in
[55]		 ?
GNU Emacs Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 23]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[56]
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
jEdit Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 24]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[57]
JOE Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 25]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 26]		 No
[lower-alpha 27]		 Yes Yes Yes ?
JOVE Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ?
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KEDIT No Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
Komodo Edit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?[lower-alpha 28]
Komodo IDE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?[lower-alpha 29]
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
LE No Yes No
[lower-alpha 30]		 Yes Yes Yes ?
Light Table Yes
Plug‑in[58]		 ? No No Yes ? ?
Metapad Partial
[lower-alpha 31]		 No Yes Yes Yes No ?
mg No Yes
[59]		 No Partial Yes
[59]		 No ?
MinEd No Yes
[lower-alpha 32]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 33]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 34]		 No Yes ?
MS-DOS Editor No No No Yes No No Yes
Nano Yes Yes No Yes Yes No ?
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Virtual Space Support
ne No Yes No No Yes Yes ?
NEdit Yes
Plug‑in[60]		 Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
Notepad No No Partial Partial Yes No ?
Notepad++ Yes
[61]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
nvi No Yes No No Yes ? ?
Pico Yes No No No No No ?
PolyEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
PSPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
RJ TextEd Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Sam No Yes No No Yes No ?
SciTE No Limited
[lower-alpha 35]		 No Yes Yes Yes ?
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[62]
Smultron Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Source Insight No Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
[63]		 ?
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No[64]
TED Notepad No No No Yes Yes No ?
TextEdit Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
TextMate Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes ?
TextPad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
UltraEdit Yes Limited
[lower-alpha 36]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
VEDIT Yes
[lower-alpha 37]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
vi No Yes No No No No ?
Vim Yes
[lower-alpha 38]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No[66]
Visual Studio Code Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Limited
[lower-alpha 39]		 No[67]
XEmacs Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 23]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
XNedit Yes
Plug‑in[60]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Spell checking Regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion Multiple undo/redo Rectangular block selection Virtual Space Support

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 No Yes
external[lower-alpha 17]		 Yes
external[lower-alpha 17]		 Yes Yes Partial
[lower-alpha 40]		 No No Yes
external[lower-alpha 17]
AkelPad Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 No Yes
Plug‑in
Alphatk Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Atom Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
[lower-alpha 41]
Brackets Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in
Coda Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
ConTEXT Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Crimson Editor Yes No Partial
[lower-alpha 42]		 Yes Yes No No No Yes
CudaText Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in
ed No No No No No No No No Yes
external[lower-alpha 43]
Editra Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? ?
EmEditor Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 44]		 Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 45]		 Yes Yes Yes Partial No Yes
gedit Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 No Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 46]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 47]
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in
JOE Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? No No Yes
JOVE No No No Yes Yes No No No Yes
Kate Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in
KEDIT Yes No Yes
Macro		 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Komodo Edit Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Komodo IDE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
LE Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No
[lower-alpha 48]
Light Table Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No Partial
[lower-alpha 49]
Metapad No No No No Yes No No No No
mined Yes
[lower-alpha 50]		 ? Yes Yes Yes No No No No
MS-DOS Editor No No No No No No No No No
Nano Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No
Syntax highlighting Function list Symbol database
(ctags or equiv.)		 Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding Compiler integration
ne Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No
NEdit Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 No No Yes
Notepad No No No No No No No No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 51]		 Yes
[68][69]		 Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 52]		 Yes Yes Yes
nvi No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
Pico No No No No No No No No No
PolyEdit Yes No No No No No No No No
PSPad Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
RJ TextEd Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sam No No No No No No No No Yes
external[lower-alpha 53]
SciTE Yes No
[lower-alpha 54]		 ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes No No Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Source Insight Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Limited
SubEthaEdit Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TED Notepad No ? ? No Yes Yes No No No
TextEdit No No No No No No No No No
TextMate Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 55]		 Yes Yes No
TextPad Yes No Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 56]		 Yes Yes No No No Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 57]
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in[70]		 Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 58]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 59]		 No Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Partial
[lower-alpha 60]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
<[lower-alpha 61]		 No No Yes
vi No No Yes Yes No No No No Yes
Vim Yes Yes
Plug‑in[71]		 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Visual Studio Code Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XNEdit Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 No No Yes
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 62] Search in files
Acme Yes Yes Yes
Extensible		 No ? ? Yes ?
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes No memory Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 63]		 No ? ? ? ?
Atom No
[72]		 ? Yes
Plug‑in[73]		 Yes No ~27 MB Soft-wrapping No
[74]		 Yes
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 64]		 No memory
[75]		 Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish No Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes ?
Brackets Yes Yes Yes
Extensible		 No No ? Partial Yes
Coda Yes No Yes
[lower-alpha 65]		 Yes ? ? Yes Yes
ConTEXT No Yes Yes No memory
[lower-alpha 66]		 ? No ?
Crimson Editor No Yes Yes No No ? No ?
CudaText No No Yes
Plug‑in		 No ? ? Yes Yes
Plug‑in
ed Yes No Yes Yes
via mkfifo		 ? ? ? Yes
Editra ? ? ? ? Yes
2 GB		 ? ? ?
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes Yes
Geany Yes ? Yes
Plug‑in		 ? ? ? Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 67]		 Yes
Plug‑in		 No ? Yes Yes
Plug‑in[76]
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes 2.3 EB[77][78][79][80] Yes Yes Yes
JED Yes No Yes No memory
[81]		 Yes No Yes
Plug‑ins
jEdit Yes No Yes No No (heap)[lower-alpha 68] ? Yes Yes
JOE Yes No Yes No Yes ? ? Yes
[83]
JOVE Yes No No No memory ? No No
Kate Yes Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 No No
[84]		 Maybe
[lower-alpha 69]		 Yes Yes
Plug‑in
KEDIT Yes Yes Yes No Yes 10Kb Yes No
Komodo Edit ? ? Yes
[86]		 No ? ? Yes Yes
Komodo IDE ? ? Yes
[86]		 Yes ? ? Yes Yes
KWrite No No No No No
[84]		 No
[87]		 No ?
LE Yes No No No
[lower-alpha 70]		 memory
[lower-alpha 71]		 ? Yes ?
Light Table No Yes No No ? ? No Yes
Metapad Yes Yes No No memory
[88]		 ? No No
mined ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ?
EDIT (MS-DOS) No No No No No (64~300 KB) No No No
EDIT (DR-DOS) No No No No 2 GB, for as long as there is disk swap space for two temporary files Yes No No
Nano Yes No No No ? ? ? ?
Text shell integration Graphical shell integration Macro language Collaborative editing Large file support Long line support Multi-line regex support Search in files
NEdit Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ?
Notepad Yes Yes No No memory ? No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes Yes
[89]		 Yes
2GB[90]		 Yes
[91]		 Yes Yes
nvi Yes No No ? ? ? ? ?
Pico ? ? ? No ? ? ? ?
PolyEdit Yes Yes No No Yes ? Yes ?
PSPad Yes Yes Yes No memory
[92]		 ? Yes
with plug‑in		 Yes
RJ TextEd Yes Yes Yes No No ? Yes ?
Sam Yes No Yes No ? ? Yes Yes
external[lower-alpha 53]
SciTE ? ? Yes No No ? No Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes No Yes
2 TB		 Yes Yes Yes
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Source Insight ? ? Yes No ? ? No ?
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes No Yes ? ? Yes ?
TED Notepad Yes Yes No No No ? ? ?
TextEdit Yes Yes No No ? ? ? ?
TextMate Yes Yes Yes No No ? Yes ?
TextPad No Yes Yes No memory
[93]		 ? Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes No memory
[94]		 Yes Yes ?
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Only in special DOS multi-user version Yes
2 GB		 Yes ? Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes No Yes
[lower-alpha 72]		 Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
vi Yes No Yes No No ~65 MB ? Yes Yes
Vim Yes Yes Yes Yes
with plug‑in[95]		 memory
[lower-alpha 73]		 Yes Yes Yes
Visual Studio Code Yes Yes Yes Yes
with plug‑in[96]		 ? ? Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes on 64-bit OS
[lower-alpha 74]		 ? Yes Yes
XNEdit Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ?
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:

Yes = Larger than 4 GiB (LFS) Yes2 GB = Larger than 1 GB, not limited by memory
memory = Limited by available memory    No (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.[97]

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 No No No No No No No No No
AkelPad Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Alphatk ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Atom ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
BBEdit[98][99] Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ?
Bluefish Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
Brackets Yes Partial Yes Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 No No No No
Coda Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
ConTEXT ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
CudaText Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ed No No No No No No No No No
Editra No No No Yes No No No No No
EmEditor Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
epsilon Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? Yes
Geany Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
gedit Yes
[lower-alpha 75]		 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial
[100]		 Yes
[101]		 Yes
[102]		 Yes
[102]
JED Yes Partial
[lower-alpha 76]		 ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes
jEdit Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ?
JOE[103] Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
JOVE Yes No No No Yes No Yes
[104]		 No No
LE Yes ? ? No ? ? ? ? ?
Light Table Yes Partial ? Yes
Plug‑in		 Yes
Plug‑in		 ? ? ? ?
Kate Yes No No Yes
[105]		 No No No No No
KEDIT Yes Yes No No No No No No No
Komodo Edit Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Komodo IDE Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
KWrite Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Metapad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
mg Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ?
mined ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? ?
MS-DOS Editor No No No No No No No No No
Nano Yes No No No Partial
[106]		 Yes No No No
NEdit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Notepad No Yes No No No No No No No
Notepad++ Partial Yes No No No No No No No
nvi ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Pico No No No No Partial
[106]		 Yes No No No
PolyEdit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PSPad Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RJ TextEd Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sam No No No No No No No No No
SciTE Partial
[lower-alpha 77]		 ? ? No No No ? ? ?
SlickEdit Yes
[lower-alpha 78]		 Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 79]		 Partial
[lower-alpha 80]		 Yes No No No Yes
Smultron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Source Insight Yes ? No No No No ? ? ?
SubEthaEdit No No Yes No No No No No No
TED Notepad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextEdit No No Yes No No No No No No
TextMate No No Yes No No No No No No
TextPad Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TextWrangler[98][107] Yes ? Yes No Yes No ? ? ?
The SemWare Editor Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
UltraEdit Yes ? No ? ? ? ? ? ?
VEDIT Yes Yes No No
[108]		 No No Yes Yes Yes
vi Yes No No Yes No No No No No
Vim Partial Yes
Plug‑in[109]		 Yes
Plug‑in[110]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 81]		 Yes
Plug‑in[lower-alpha 82]		 Yes
Plug‑in[112]		 Yes
Plug‑in[113]		 No Yes
Plug‑in[114]
Visual Studio Code Yes No Yes Yes
Plug‑in[115]		 Yes
Plug‑in[116]		 No No No Partial
Plug‑in[117]
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial
[100]		 Yes
[101]		 Yes
[102]		 Yes
[102]
XNEdit Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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>.[118][119]
  • 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 No No No No
AkelPad No No No No
Alphatk Yes No No Yes
Atom ? ? ? ?
BBEdit Yes No Yes No
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes Yes
Brackets Yes
Plug‑in		 No No No
Coda Yes Yes Yes Yes
ConTEXT No
[120]		 ? No
[120]		 ?
Crimson Editor Yes No No No
CudaText Yes No No No
ed No No No No
Editra ? ? ? ?
EmEditor No No No No
Geany No No No No
gedit Yes Yes Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes
JED No No No No
jEdit Yes
plug‑in[121]		 Yes
[122]		 Yes
plug‑in[121]		 Yes
plug‑in.
JOE No No No No
JOVE No No No No
LE No No No No
Kate Yes Yes Yes Yes
KEDIT No No No No
Komodo IDE Yes
FTP, FTPS, SFTP		 No Yes No
KWrite Yes Yes Yes Yes
Metapad No No No No
mined ? ? ? ?
MS-DOS Editor No No No No
Nano No No Yes No
FTP HTTP SSH WebDAV
NEdit No No No No
Notepad No No No No
Notepad++ Yes
Plug‑in for FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP		 No Yes
Plug‑in		 No
nvi No No No No
Pico No No No No
PolyEdit No No No No
PSPad Yes No No No
RJ TextEd Yes
FTP, SFTP		 No Yes No
Sam No No No No
SciTE No No No No
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes No
Smultron Yes ? ? ?
Source Insight No No No No
SubEthaEdit Yes No No No
TED Notepad No
[123]		 ? No
[123]		 ?
TextEdit No No No No
TextMate Yes No No No
TextPad No No No No
TextWrangler Yes
FTP, SFTP[124]		 No Yes No
The SemWare Editor No No No No
UltraEdit Yes No Yes No
VEDIT Yes No No No
vi No No No No
Vim Yes
[125]		 Yes
[125]		 Yes
[125]		 Yes
[125]
Visual Studio Code Yes
Plug‑in[126]		 Yes
Plug‑in (limited?)[126]		 Yes
Plug‑in[126]		 Yes
Plug‑in[126]
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes ?
XNEdit No No No No
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.

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 No No
AkelPad No No
Alphatk ? ?
Atom No No
BBEdit Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes
Brackets ? ?
Coda ? ?
ConTEXT ? ?
Crimson Editor ? ?
ed ? ?
Editra ? ?
EmEditor No No
Geany ? ?
gedit Yes Yes
GNU Emacs Yes Yes
[lower-alpha 94]
JED ? ?
jEdit No No
JOE ? ?
JOVE No No
LE ? ?
Kate Yes Yes
KEDIT No No
Komodo Edit No No
Komodo IDE No No
KWrite ? ?
Metapad ? ?
MS-DOS Editor ? ?
mined Yes
[lower-alpha 95]		 Yes
[lower-alpha 95]
Nano ? ?
RTL Bidi
NEdit No No
Notepad Yes Yes
Notepad++ Yes Partial
[lower-alpha 96]
nvi ? ?
Pico ? ?
PolyEdit ? ?
PSPad ? ?
RJ TextEd Yes Yes
Sam No No
SciTE No No
SlickEdit ? ?
Smultron ? ?
Source Insight No No
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes
TED Notepad ? ?
TextEdit Yes Yes
TextMate No No
TextPad ? ?
TextWrangler Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor No No
UltraEdit No No
VEDIT ? ?
vi ? ?
Vim Yes Yes
through terminal support
Visual Studio Code No Yes
XEmacs ? ?
XNEdit No No
RTL Bidi

Newline support

Support for newline characters in line endings
Windows (CR/LF) Unix-like systems (including macOS)[129] (LF) Classic Mac OS (CR)
Acme Yes Yes Yes
AkelPad Yes Yes Yes
Alphatk Yes Yes Yes
Atom Yes Yes No
BBEdit Yes Yes Yes
Bluefish Yes Yes Yes
Brackets Yes Yes No
Coda Yes Yes Yes
ConTEXT Yes Yes Yes
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes
CudaText Yes Yes Yes
ed No Yes No
Editra Yes Yes Yes
EmEditor Yes Yes Yes
Geany Yes Yes Yes
gedit Yes Yes Yes
GNU Emacs[lower-alpha 97] Yes Yes Yes
JED Yes Yes Yes
jEdit Yes Yes Yes
JOE[130] Yes Yes No
JOVE Yes Yes Yes
Kate Yes Yes Yes
KEDIT Yes Yes Yes
Komodo Edit Yes Yes Yes
Komodo IDE Yes Yes Yes
KWrite Yes Yes Yes
LE Yes Yes No
Metapad Yes Yes ?
MS-DOS Editor Yes No No
mined Yes Yes Yes
Nano Yes Yes Yes
NEdit Yes Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No
Notepad++ Yes Yes Yes
nvi ? Yes ?
Pico Yes Yes Yes
PolyEdit Yes Yes Yes
PSPad Yes Yes Yes
RJ TextEd Yes Yes Yes
Sam ? ? ?
SciTE Yes Yes Yes
SlickEdit Yes Yes Yes
Smultron Yes Yes Yes
Source Insight Yes Yes Yes
SubEthaEdit Yes Yes Yes
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes
TED Notepad Yes Yes Yes
TextEdit Yes Yes Yes
TextMate Yes Yes Yes
TextPad Yes Yes Yes
TextWrangler Yes Yes Yes
The SemWare Editor Yes Yes Yes
UltraEdit Yes Yes Yes
VEDIT Yes Yes Yes
vi No Yes No
Vim Yes Yes Yes
Visual Studio Code Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes
XNEdit Yes Yes Yes
Windows (CR/LF) Unix-like systems (including macOS) (LF) Classic Mac OS (CR)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ alexey_t, kvichans, matthias030.
  2. ↑ last update in OpenBSD repo[25]
  3. 1 2 No native support, available as a part of the Inferno port for Windows or by using `plan9port` over the WSL.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Requires Cygwin or the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run on Windows.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. 1 2 3 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. ↑ Stand alone NSIS installable package is available
  8. ↑ gedit supports single document window splitting via plug‑ins. Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ gedit supports multiple document window splitting via plug‑ins. Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ GNU Emacs can support a tabbed document interface modelled after GNU Screen using the elscreen Archived 2008-01-17 at the Wayback Machine package.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ mined supports Copy/Paste between multiple documents in separate windows, when these documents are in separate terminal windows
  14. ↑ SciTE_max_buffers
  15. ↑ Vim Provided GVim is used.
  16. ↑ Vim version 7 supports a tabbed document interface. Earlier versions can emulate tabs through scripts, for example.[53]
  17. 1 2 3 4 Acme can invoke external commands and display their return values in order to integrate additional functionality.
  18. ↑ ConTEXT does not support regular expression backreferences in its search and replace function. Archived 2007-12-18 at archive.today
  19. ↑ ConTEXT only supports converting text to UTF-16. Also, it can only use one type of new-line format if converting to UTF-16.
  20. ↑ Geany supports spell checking via a plug‑in
  21. ↑ gedit supports spell checking via a plug‑in, which is distributed with gedit.
  22. ↑ gedit supports Regex-based find & replace via plug‑ins ( Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine).
  23. 1 2 Emacs supports spell checking via the external programs ispell, aspell, or Hunspell.
  24. ↑ jEdit supports spell checking via an external plug‑in.
  25. ↑ JOE supports spell checking via the ispell or aspell external plug‑ins.
  26. ↑ JOE uses a non-standard regular expression syntax.
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. ↑ Komodo Edit is based on Scintilla and may support virtual space similar to Geany and Notepad++ ()
  29. ↑ Komodo IDE is based on Scintilla and may support virtual space similar to Geany and Notepad++ ()
  30. ↑ LE can pipe text through the GNU recode(1) utility
  31. ↑ Metapad spell checking by calling external program Aspell.
  32. ↑ mined supports multiple lines in search and replacement expressions.
  33. ↑ mined can convert the encoding format when using the Copy & Paste feature between multiple documents (that have different encodings).
  34. ↑ 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.
  35. ↑ Scintilla-based editors such as SciTE, Notepad2 and Notepad++ do not support alternation (
  36. ↑ UltraEdit uses the Boost C++ regex library. While Boost supports backreferences past \9 with \g{10}, UltraEdit has not yet implemented this feature.
  37. ↑ 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.
  38. ↑ Vim version 7 supports spell checking natively. Earlier versions require a script.[65]
  39. ↑ Visual Studio Code does not support virtual space, and rectangular selection beyond line endings is not possible.
  40. ↑ Acme's auto-completion only works on file names.
  41. ↑ bluefish: Configurable via the outputbox feature.
  42. ↑ With external tool OpenCTags
  43. ↑ ed can invoke external commands, like a compiler.
  44. ↑ EmEditor Professional supports Auto Complete via plug‑ins (32-bit or 64-bit).
  45. ↑ Geany uses its own tags file format, not compatible with ctags, see the manual.
  46. ↑ gedit-folding: Folding plug‑in for Gedit
  47. ↑ gedit: Compiler integration: Functionality in plug‑ins installed with gedit.
  48. ↑ make can be launched from the LE text editor, but the output is not captured
  49. ↑ Evaluates expressions in some dynamic languages such as Clojure, Python and Javascript in realtime
  50. ↑ mined: Syntax highlighting: HTML/XML, Javascript, JSP.
  51. ↑ Notepad++ comes with Function List support, and it can be enhanced via plugins.
  52. ↑ Notepad++ installs with auto complete list for multiple programming languages. Has user option to add additional personalized auto complete list(s).
  53. 1 2 It is possible to start external applications from inside Sam and display their return values.
  54. ↑ Function list (and stuff) available in Ru-Board build, ver 1.79.66Ru and later
  55. ↑ TextMate: Auto complete: Supported language bundles
  56. ↑ Textpad uses an add-on ()
  57. ↑ 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.
  58. ↑ The Semware Editor: Auto complete: Supported via supplied/user-created lists.
  59. ↑ The Semware Editor: Text folding: Compressed view possible.
  60. ↑ Not in the Linux version.
  61. ↑ Vedit: Auto complete: Template editing, plus 3rd party macro for expanding symbols from tags database.
  62. ↑ Multi-line regex support Support for expressions spanning several lines (e.g. "\n\n(.+)\n\n")
  63. ↑ Alpha Macro support via AppleScript, Tcl or text factories.
  64. ↑ BBEdit Macro support via AppleScript, Perl, Python, Lasso, shell scripts or text factories.
  65. ↑ Coda offers macros via AppleScript, text "clips,"or plug‑ins (Cocoa apps or any installed scripting language).
  66. ↑ name
  67. ↑ Cssed Macro support via Python.
  68. ↑ jEdit: Limited by Java heap size.[82]
  69. ↑ Kate: Line length is limited by default. The limit can be removed, but long lines may cause poor performance.[85]
  70. ↑ LE text editor locks the file and warns if someone else has changed the file
  71. ↑ LE text editor can view and edit large files or their parts in mmap-shared mode
  72. ↑ UltraEdit has no real limit on file size - and can easily open, edit, and save large text files in excess of 4 GB! .
  73. ↑ 2GB with 32 Bits, on a 64 Bit system it depends on the available virtual memory.
  74. ↑ Emacs: 64-bit compilation on 64-bit OS can handle 2 GB files, otherwise the limit is 512 MiB.
  75. ↑ It is possible to customize all Gedit shortcuts because it is Gtk based.
  76. ↑ 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.
  77. ↑ In SciTE, custom keystrokes may be assigned to Lua scripts, external programs or lexers (highlighters).
  78. ↑ SlickEdit provides emulation of Visual Studio, Visual C++ 6, CodeWright, Epsilon and ISPF key bindings in addition to those given in the table.
  79. ↑ SlickEdit supports CodeWarrior, Xcode and BBEdit key binding emulation.
  80. ↑ SlickEdit includes support of vi key bindings, the ex command line and some, but not all Vim extensions.
  81. ↑ Vim emulates vi keys fully when in 'compatible' mode
  82. ↑ Vim With a script[111]
  83. 1 2 3 4 5 6 when choosing e.g. Terminal font
  84. ↑ 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).
  85. ↑ 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).
  86. ↑ 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.
  87. ↑ nvi Gentoo
  88. ↑ SciTE can open files in UTF or one single-byte encoding specified in a configuration file.
  89. 1 2 TextPad can load and save UTF-8 and UTF-16 text files, but cannot use or even preserve characters outside of the system encoding.[127]
  90. ↑ when choosing e.g. New Courier font
  91. 1 2 Vedit can convert UTF-8 and UTF-16 files to Windows character set and back. Characters not included in Windows charset can be preserved.
  92. ↑ Vim supports EBCDIC when compiled on a system that uses the EBCDIC character set.
  93. ↑ from version 21.5.29
  94. ↑ 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.
  95. 1 2 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
  96. ↑ 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
  97. ↑ 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.

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