Vim and nano are command-line text editors that run in a terminal rather than a graphical user interface (GUI). Vim and nano have a similar appearance but differ greatly in functionality and ...

I'm normally a mac user. On the mac side we have available a great text editor for programmers called TextWrangler. It is free (with a pay-for bigger brother), it does all the proper colouring of text ...

Geez, all this vim love. I'm an emacs guy, have been for a decade. It is available on every platform I could possibly want to use, and is infinitely configurable. I've given GUI text editors a chance, ...

jEdit is a cross-platform text editor written in Java. The current stable version at time of this writing is 4.3.2, and it's available at http://jedit.org. Besides ...

TextEdit, the default text editor on the Mac, is great for file creation and editing. However, it isn’t suitable for writing or reviewing code, owing to a lack of functionality. IMAGE: Joan Gamell ...

Despite decades of advancement in computing power, nothing has replaced the usefulness of a good text editor—whether you're managing a to-do list or elbow deep in code. Here's a look at five of the ...

From managing our to-do lists and writing code to jotting ideas and keeping a grocery list, nothing beats a solid plain text editor. On Tuesday we asked you to nominate your favorite text editor, and ...