Editing List of text editors (section)

=== Others ===
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| [[Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor|ECCE]] 
| ECCE (The Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor) is a text editor designed by Dr Hamish Dewar at Edinburgh University.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
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| [[Emacs]] 
| A screen-based editor with an embedded computer language, [[Emacs Lisp]]. Early versions were implemented in TECO, see below.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
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| [[JED (text editor)|JED]]
| Multi-mode, multi-window editor with drop-down menus, folding, ctags support, undo, UTF-8, key-macros, autosave, etc.  Multi-emulation; default is emacs.  Programmable in [[S-Lang]].
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
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| [[Joe's Own Editor|JOE]] 
| A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-[[WordStar]] style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
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| [[LE (text editor)|LE]]
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| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
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| [[Midnight Commander|mcedit]] 
| Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
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| [[mg (text editor)|mg]]
| Small and light, uses GNU/Emacs keybindings. Installed by default on OpenBSD.
| {{open source|[[Public domain]]}}
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| [[Mined (text editor)|MinEd]] 
| Text editor with user-friendly interface, mouse and menu control, and extensive Unicode and CJK support; for Unix/Linux and Windows/DOS.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL]]}}
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| [[GNU nano]] 
| A clone of Pico [[GNU General Public License|GPL]] licensed.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
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| [[ne (text editor)|ne]] 
| A minimal, modern replacement for vi.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]}}
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| [[Pico (text editor)|Pico]]
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| {{open source|[[Apache License|Apache-2.0]]}}
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| [[SETEDIT]] 
| A clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
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| [[The SemWare Editor]]
| (TSE for DOS)<br />(formerly called QEdit)
| {{Proprietary}}
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====vi clones====
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| [[BusyBox#Commands|BusyBox vi]]<ref>Wells, N. (2000). BusyBox: A swiss army knife for linux. Linux Journal, 2000(78es), 10.</ref> 
| A small vi clone with a minimum of commands and features.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]}}
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| [[elvis (text editor)|Elvis]] 
| The first vi clone and the default vi in Minix.
| {{open source|[[Artistic License|ClArtistic]]}}
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| [[ex (text editor)|ex]] 
| Or is [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] an [[ex (text editor)|ex]]-clone? [[ex (text editor)|ex]] was an '''[[ex (text editor)|ex]]'''tended version of [[ed (text editor)|ed]]. It got a full-screen visual interface, thereby becoming the [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] text editor.
| {{open source|[[Free software]]}}
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| [[Kakoune]]
| An editor inspired by vi that makes use of multi cursor workflows and modal editing.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Voinov |first1=Philippe |last2=Rigger |first2=Manuel |last3=Su |first3=Zhendong |chapter=Forest: Structural Code Editing with Multiple Cursors |date=2022-12-01 |title=Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3563835.3567663 |series=Onward! 2022 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=137–152 |doi=10.1145/3563835.3567663 |isbn=978-1-4503-9909-8|arxiv=2210.11124 }}</ref>
| {{open source|Unlicense}}
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| [[nvi (text editor)|nvi]] 
| A new implementation and currently the standard vi in BSD distributions.
| {{open source|[[BSD licenses|BSD-3-Clause]]}}
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| [[Stevie (text editor)|Stevie]] 
| STEVIE (ST Editor for VI Enthusiasts) for the Atari ST, the starting point for vim and xvi
| {{open source|[[Public domain]]}}
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| [[Vile (text editor)|vile]] 
| Derived from an early version of [[Microemacs]] in an attempt to bring the [[Emacs]] multi-window/multi-buffer editing paradigm to vi users. First published 1991 with infinite undo, UTF-8 compatibility, multi-window/multi-buffer operation, a macro expansion language, syntax highlighting, file read and write hooks, and more.
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]}}
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| [[Vim (text editor)|vim]]<ref name="vim"/> 
| An extended version of the vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code.
| {{open source|Vim}}
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