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text editor A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be ...
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Graphical and text user interface

The following editors can either be used with a
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or a
text user interface In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an ear ...
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Graphical user interface


Text user interface


System default


Others


vi clones

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No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)


ASCII and ANSI art

Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of
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and
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text art. * ACiDDraw – designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64) * JavE – ASCII editor, portable to any platform running a
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GUI * PabloDraw – ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via
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network connections *
TheDraw TheDraw is a text editor for MS-DOS to create ANSI and animations as well as ASCII art. The editor is especially useful to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents, which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages, bec ...
ANSI The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organi ...
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ASCII ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because ...
text editor for
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and
PCBoard PCBoard (PCB) was a bulletin board system (BBS) application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Clark Development Company. Clark Development was founded by Fred Clark. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and wa ...
file format support


ASCII font editors

* FIGlet – for creating ASCII art text *
TheDraw TheDraw is a text editor for MS-DOS to create ANSI and animations as well as ASCII art. The editor is especially useful to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents, which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages, bec ...
– MS-DOS ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts * PabloDraw – .NET text editor designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art


Historical


Visual and full-screen editors


Line editors


See also

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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 n ...
* Editor war *
Line editor In computing, a line editor is a text editor in which each editing command applies to one or more complete lines of text designated by the user. Line editors predate screen-based text editors and originated in an era when a computer operator typic ...
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List of HTML editors The following is a list of HTML editors. Source code editors Source code editors evolved from basic text editors, but include additional tools specifically geared toward handling code. *ActiveState Komodo *Aptana * Arachnophilia *Atom *BBEdit ...
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List of word processors The following is a list of notable word processors. Free and open-source software * AbiWord * Apache OpenOffice Writer * Calligra Words * Collabora Online Writer – enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice, included with Online, Mobile and Desktop ...
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Outliner An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure, for organization. Textual information is contained in discrete sections c ...
, a specialized type of word processor *
Source code editor A source-code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment (IDE) or web browser. Source-code ed ...


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