1] Notepad++. Notepad++ is one of the best free text editor software out there. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is free to use. It has plenty of useful features ...

The Monaco project is open source, with most of its development now in the Visual Studio Code GitHub repositories.That doesn’t mean it has stopped being available as a stand-alone editor, with a ...

When MS-DOS 5.0 was released in 1991, one of the big innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly became popular with users.

You should avoid this at all costs by copying only unformatted text into the Text module and editing it there. This is easily possible with the help of the icon "paste as plain text". If you do paste ...

One of its cooler plugins is HTML replacement, which converts special characters into HTML code. Using Geany is a decidedly old-school experience — it has a nerdy interface that looks like ...

Runestone is a free app with a $9.99 in-app purchase to unlock its “Premium” tier of features. Premium is targeted quite heavily at developers for writing code, so if you’re just looking to write ...

On the surface, Hog Bay Software’s $25 FoldingText ( Mac App Store link) is a basic text editor.In fact, if you don’t dig too deep, you could easily be fooled into thinking that FoldingText is ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

Microsoft is unveiling its own command-line text editor at its Build conference today. Edit on Windows will be accessible by using “edit” in a command prompt, allowing developers to edit files ...