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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
PSPad	Jan Fiala	?	4.3.2	Free	Proprietary
vi	Bill Joy	1976	?	Free	BSD license
vim	Bram Moolenaar	1980	6.3	Free	GPL-compatible
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
PSPad	Yes	No	No	No	No
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	Yes	Yes
GNU Emacs	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Nano	No	No	Yes	No	No
Notepad	No	No	No	No	No
Pico	No	No	No	No	No
PSPad	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
vi	No	No	?	No	No
vim	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
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	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nano	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?
Notepad	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Pico	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?
PSPad	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
vi	No	No	?	?	?	?	?	?
vim	Yes	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	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nano	Not applicable	?	?
Notepad	Yes	No	No
Pico	Not applicable	?	?
PSPad	No	Yes	Yes
vi	Not applicable	?	?
vim	Not applicable	?	?
XEmacs	Not applicable	?	?
	Shell integration	Compiler integration	Macro

Protocol support

Information about what common internet protocols are supported natively for remote file editing.

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

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