Extra Features
Text shell integration | Graphical shell integration | Macro language | Collaborative editing | Large file support | Multi-line regex support | Search in files | |
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Acme | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? |
AkelPad | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | memory | Yes | ? |
Alphatk | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Aquamacs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | memory | Yes | ? |
BBEdit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | memory | Yes | ? |
Bluefish | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
ConTEXT | No | Yes | Yes | No | memory | No | ? |
Crimson Editor | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
Diakonos | No | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? |
E Text Editor | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
ed | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Yes |
EditPlus | ? | Yes | Yes | No | memory | Yes | Yes |
Editra | ? | ? | ? | ? | 2GB | ? | ? |
EmEditor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Geany | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
gedit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Plugin | No | No | No |
GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | on 64bit OS | Yes | Yes |
Gobby | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | ? |
JED | Yes | No | Yes | No | memory | ? | ? |
jEdit | Yes | No | Yes | No | No (heap) | Yes | ? |
JOE | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Kate | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
KEDIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Komodo Edit | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? |
KWrite | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
LE | Yes | No | No | No | memory | Yes | ? |
Metapad | Yes | Yes | No | No | memory | No | ? |
mined | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
MS-DOS Editor | No | No | No | No | No (~300 KB) | No | No |
Nano | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Text shell integration | Graphical shell integration | Macro language | Collaborative editing | Large file support | Multi-line regex support | Search in files | |
NEdit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
Notepad | Yes | Yes | No | No | memory | No | No |
Notepad++ | Yes | Yes | Yes | with plugin | No | Yes | Yes |
Notepad2 | No | No | No | No | memory | No | ? |
NoteTab | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? |
nvi | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Pico | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
PolyEdit | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Programmer's Notepad | No | Yes | Yes | No | slow | Yes | ? |
PSPad | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | memory | with plugin | Yes |
Q10 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RJ TextEd | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
RText | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
SciTE | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
skEdit | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
SlickEdit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 2 GB | 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 | Yes | Yes |
TextWrangler | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | memory | Yes | ? |
The SemWare Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 2 GB | No | ? |
UltraEdit | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
VEDIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Vim | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
XEmacs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | on 64bit OS | Yes | Yes |
Text shell integration | Graphical shell integration | Macro language | Collaborative editing | Large file support | Multi-line regex support | Search in files |
Large file support:
Yes | = Larger than 4GB (LFS) | 2GB | = Larger than 1GB, not limited by memory |
memory | = Limited by available memory | No (64k) | = 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.
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.
Read more about this topic: Comparison Of Text Editors
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