Comparison of text editors

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 Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs..

=General information=

This table gives basic general information about the different editors.

=Operating system support=

This table lists the operating systems that different editors can run on (note: some editors run on operating systems not listed in the table).

=Document interface=

This table lists common document interfaces supported natively by different editors.

Via script.

=Basic features=

This table lists common basic features supported natively by different editors.

Spell Checking is added for version 7, however it s still in the alpha version stage.

As a standard plugin.

Requires ispell or aspell.

Non-standard regexp syntax.

=Programming features=

This table lists common programming features implemented natively by different editors.

Supported via supplied/user-created lists.

=Extra features=

This table lists other features implemented natively by different editors.

Supported via AppleScript, Perl, Python programming language, Unix shell scripts or text factories.

Supported via AppleScript, Tcl or text factories.

=Protocol support=

This table lists Internet protocols that different editors support for remote file editing.

Supported via Plugins.

=Encoding support=

This table lists character encodings that different editors support.

=Newline support=

This table states which newline character sequences different editors support.

=References=

The Emacs Editor

=See also=

*List of text editors