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Information about what common ]s are implemented natively for remote file editing (without third-party add-ons).
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Revision as of 15:04, 19 February 2005

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of text editors. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

General information

Basic general information about the archivers: creator/company, license/price etc.

Creator First public release date Latest stable version Cost (USD) Software license
Crimson Editor Ingyu Kang ? 3.7 Free Proprietary
EditPlus ES-Computing March 20, 1998 2.12 $30 (1-user) Proprietary
GNU Emacs GNU Project 1984 21.4 Free GPL
Nano GNU Project 1999 1.2.4 Free GPL
Notepad Microsoft ? ? Part of Windows Proprietary
Pico University of Washington ? ? Free Proprietary
vi Bill Joy 1976 ? Free BSD license
vim Bill Joy 1976 ? Free BSD license
XEmacs Lucid Inc. 1991 21.0 Free GPL
Creator First public release date Latest stable version Cost (USD) Software license

Operating system support

The operating systems the arhivers can run on without emulation.

Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix
Crimson Editor Yes No No No No
EditPlus Yes No No No No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Nano No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Notepad Yes No No No No
Pico No Yes Yes Yes Yes
vi No Yes Yes Yes Yes
vim Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix

Basic features

Information about what common basic features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).

Tabbed interface Spell checking regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes Yes No ? ?
GNU Emacs No No Yes No No
Nano No No Yes No No
Notepad No No No No No
Pico No No No No No
vi No No ? No No
vim No No Yes No No
XEmacs No No Yes No No
Tabbed interface Spell checking regex-based find & replace Encoding conversion Newline conversion

Programming features

Information about what common programming features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).

Syntax highlighting Multiple undo/redo Column mode editing Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
EditPlus Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes No No
GNU Emacs Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
Nano Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
Notepad No No No No No No No No
Pico ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
vi No No ? ? ? ? ? ?
vim Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
Syntax highlighting Multiple undo/redo Column mode editing Bracket matching Auto indentation Auto completion Code folding Text folding

Extra features

Information about what common extra features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).

Shell integration Compiler integration Macro
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes No No
GNU Emacs Not applicable ? ?
Nano Not applicable ? ?
Notepad Yes No No
Pico Not applicable ? ?
vi Not applicable ? ?
vim Not applicable ? ?
XEmacs Not applicable ? ?
Shell integration Compiler integration Macro

Protocol support

Information about what common internet protocols are implemented natively for remote file editing (without third-party add-ons).

FTP HTTP SSH
Crimson Editor Yes No No
EditPlus Yes No No
GNU Emacs ? ? ?
Nano ? ? ?
Notepad No No No
Pico ? ? ?
vi ? ? ?
vim Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs ? ? ?
FTP HTTP SSH

Encoding support

Information about what common character encodings are supported.

ASCII UTF-8 UTF-16
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes ? ?
GNU Emacs Yes No No
Nano Yes No No
Notepad Yes Yes Yes
Pico Yes No No
vi Yes No No
vim Yes Yes Yes
XEmacs Yes Yes Yes
ASCII UTF-8 UTF-16

Newline support

Information about what common newlines are supported.

DOS (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)
Crimson Editor Yes Yes Yes
EditPlus Yes ? ?
GNU Emacs ? Yes ?
Nano ? Yes ?
Notepad Yes No No
Pico ? Yes ?
vi ? Yes ?
vim ? Yes ?
XEmacs ? Yes ?
DOS (CR/LF) Unix (LF) Mac (CR)
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