The following is a list of notable text editors.

Graphical and text user interface

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

Graphical user interface

Text user interface

System default

Others

vi clones

Sources:

No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)

ASCII and ANSI art

Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of ASCII and ANSI text art.

ASCII font editors

Historical

Visual and full-screen editors

• Brief – a programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2 • Edit application – a programmer's editor for Classic Mac OS • EDIT – a menu-based editor introduced to supersede EDLIN in MS-DOS version 5.0 and up and available in most Microsoft Windows • EDT – a character-based editor used on DEC PDP-11s and VMS • O26 – written for the operator console of the CDC 6000 series machines in the mid-1960s • Red – a VMS editor, written in Forth variant STOIC • se – an early screen-based editor for Unix • SED – cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and VMS • STET (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977 • TeachText • TECO – a character-based editor, which included a programming language.

Line editors

• Colossal Typewriter – an early editor thought to be written for the PDP-1 • ed: • *Unix's early line editor • *CP/M's line editor • EDLIN – a line editor delivered with MS-DOS • EDT (Univac) – a line editor for Unisys VS/9 and Fujitsu BS2000 systems • ex – an EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi • fred – sed-like line editor used on the CDC 7600 at Los Alamos • GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) – a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the GEC 4000 series computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and then adopted by GEC Computers for OS4000. • sed – a non-interactive programmable stream editor available in Unix • TECO – one of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language • TEDIT – GEC 4000 series editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT • QED