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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