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A text editor is an application that is used to write and edit plain text. You can categorize editors by being able to provide a comfortable gui and by their ability to process unicode.

Contents 1 Specific applications 1.1 CLI text editors 1.2 GUI text editors 1.3 Unicode text editors 2 See also

Specific applications

CLI text editors

• ed
• ex
• emacs
• joe
• Minimum Profit
• nano
• pico
• vi and its derivatives

Keyboard shortcuts at a glance

GUI text editors

• bluefish
• emacs
• jEdit
• kate
• kwrite
• Gedit
• gvim
• NEdit
• Composer (Comes with Mozilla)
• MadEdit

Unicode text editors

• yudit

See also

• Text Processing
• Word Processor
• WYSIWYG