Text editors
Features to be checked (partially stolen from the Orthodox Editors Page):
- Syntax highlighting, preferably with analysis (e.g. distinguish locals/globals)
- Undo/Redo, preferably unlimited
- Rectangular block handling
- Multiwindows support
- Folding
- Key mapping
- Script language
- Function/Class Browser
- Tagging (links to caller/references), preferably dynamic
- Chunking and dynamic pseudo-hypertext annotations (the ability to view several relevant parts of the same or other file as a set of adjacent windows. For example, all function calls in one windows and the function body in the other, adjacent window. Or documentation to the function in a windows adjacent to the function code, etc.
- Code Beautifiers
- Outlining (hierarchical view of the file)
- SCM/RCS/CVS interface
- FTP client
Look also at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Open_Source/Software/Editors/- http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Editors/
- http://www.softpanorama.org/Editors/index.shtml Orthodox Editors Page - interesting description of features
Freeware
Look also at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Freeware/Editors/
To Do: Imenu in emacs/Xemacs?
- emacs http://www.fsf.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
- xemacs http://www.xemacs.org
- gvim, gvim http://www.vim.org/ Quick reference: http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vim.html, http://www.guckes.net/vim/pdf/vim-book.quick.reference.pdf
- http://cream.sourceforge.net/ "Cream: a modern configuration of the Vim text editor"
- http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html really nice: FTP, Hex editor, output parser, scripting, spell checker, many tools.
- SciTE http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html folding, nice block marks, interesting!
- http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ uses Scintilla. Many plugins (including FTP client).
- ConTEXT http://www.fixedsys.com/context/ syntax coloring, nice. Tool output parsing. Hex display/edit planned but not yet available.
- http://www.praven3.com/credit/ CREdit by Plamen Parvanov. Tool output parsing.
- http://www.pnotepad.org/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnotepad/ Programmers Notepad. Open source. Handles large files. Folding, Tool output parsing. Hex editor planned. Navigation with Ctags.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/syn Syn Text Editor. Can access files via FTP.
- http://www.anyedit.org/ Open Source, uses patched Scintilla
- Crimson Editor http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ with calculator, but not exciting.
- http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/ TED Notepad very small app, interesting
- http://www.triptico.com/software/mp.html "Minimum Profit"
- http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/grasp/ " jGRASP produces Control Structure Diagrams (CSDs) for Java, C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, and VHDL; CPG diagrams for Java and Ada; UML diagrams for Java..."
- http://www.kt2k.com AEdiX
- JED http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/ (textmode)
- FTE http://fte.sourceforge.net/ textmode, folding, output parsing, small, many OS
- jEdit http://jedit.sourceforge.net/ http://www.jedit.org/ written in Java, folding, many plugins
- Notetab Light http://www.notetab.com/ claims to be "The ultimate free Notepad replacement"
- elvis http://elvis.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/ Vi clone
- joe (jmacs, jpico, jstar) http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/ "world-famous Wordstar like text editor"
- mined http://towo.net/mined/ (was: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/wolff/mined/) "Versatile character encoding support", e.g. Unicode, Arabic/Asian support.
- NEdit http://nedit.org/ (with Cygwin or another X-server also for Win32)
- nvi http://www.bostic.com/vi/ Berkeley Vi Editor
- Nano http://www.nano-editor.org/ (PiCo clone)
- vile http://www.vile.cx/
- jfe http://home.arcor.de/jensaltmann/JFE/jfe_eng.htm (ex http://home.t-online.de/home/Jens.Altmann/) nice, small size but works very well, can add your own commands
- Proton and "HTML EDITOR Phase 5" http://www.meybohm.de/ small, no install - just run
- synnote http://www.geocities.com/nkeem/synnote.htm (syntax coloring)
- bhaum http://www.geocities.com/nkeem/xindex.htm (HTML/text editor and RTF viewer)
- THE The Hessling Editor http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/ like XEDIT/KEDIT, uses Rexx as its macro language.
- http://www.tangbu.com/ X2 by Blair Thompson, Text mode for many OS, Rexx macro support
- http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/UniRed/ENG/index.html Unired supports many charsets (Unicode, UTF-8 etc)
- http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/ metapad from Alexander Davidson. Small.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeeditpro/ "Basic editor that is based around editing ASM & C for the HCS12 / HCS12X from Freescale"
frhed - not a "text" editor, but a plain binary/HEX editor: http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html
Pricing below might be outdated!
Shareware / low cost products
- UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com/ really good value, many features 50USD. Hex display/edit, large files.
- MED http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html or http://www.utopia-planitia.de/ good highlighting, section browser etc., my favourite editor.
- Codewhiz http://www.incatec.com/ or http://www.incatec.com/ 20USD
- Notetab http://www.notetab.com/ or http://www.fookes.com/notetab/index.html, formerly called "Super NoteTab", free to 20USD.
- Boxer http://www.boxersoftware.com/ 60USD
- TSE Pro (ex QEdit) http://www.semware.com/ 99USD
- TextPad http://www.textpad.com/ 17UKP (27USD)
- EmEditor http://www.emurasoft.com/ 30USD
- Zeus http://www.zeusedit.com/ 87EUR (limited time offer 30EUR) Owner sent spam to Newsgroups repeatedly
- EditPlus http://www.editplus.com/ 30USD
- HDS Pad http://www.hds-pad.com/ http://www.hds-pad.de/ world's first powerful text and HTML editor to include both an image viewer and a word processing function. Supports RTF (editing, export) regular expressions. 20USD/EUR
- http://www.vedit.com/ claims to be the fastest editor around, handles very large files ("100+ Megabyte files, Lines with 100,000+ columns"), 79USD
Over 100USD but maybe worth the money:
- Ed for Windows (Ed4Win) http://www.getsoft.com/ 169USD
- CRiSP http://www.vital.com/ 150USD Non-Commercial, 250USD Commercial. "If you liked Brief (as I still do) you will love CRiSP, you can even keep your Brief macros."
- Multi-Edit http://www.multiedit.com/ 199USD, Tag preview, but IMHO not very intuitive user interface.
- KEDIT http://www.kedit.com/ XEDIT-like editor with REXX-like scripting language and selective line editing, but IMHO not very intuitive. 159USD
- http://www.lugaru.com/ Epsilon "an advanced EMACS-style programmer's text editor for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2 and DOS" with Brief emulation. 250USD
- CodeWright http://www.codewright.com/ (Borland, ex www.starbase.com, ex www.premia.com). Similar to Brief!? Expensive updates!? Similar realtime references as Source Insight. No more supported (but still 300USD/EUR!).
more than a editor (e.g. providing analysis):
- http://www.eclipse.org/
- Source Insight http://www.sourcedyn.com/ 250USD Code Browser and analyzer, realtime references, very good parsing/highlighting
- Visual SlickEdit http://www.slickedit.com/ code analysis, diff/merge ad much more, Brief emulation. 269USD (outside USA 296!), 20% maintenance. 15 day Demo bound to MAC address, ilcensed version not!
- Understand for C++ von http://www.scitools.com/ ca. 500USD "a reverse engineering, documentation and metrics tool"
- http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/ The Source-Navigator (TM) IDE
- no more available? Codemagic Universal IDE http://www.codemagiccd.com/, http://homepage.dave-world.net/pete/codemagic.html, http://www.petesplace.com/
Freeware no more available, but I have copies:
- Synedit, was at: http://www.mkidesign.com/syneditinfo.html
- editpad http://www.jgsoft.com/ Postcardware no more available for download (see http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadclassic.html)
- PFE maybe http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000017700 was: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/ (Win32, development ended 1999