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Angel Writer - http://www.angelicsoftware.com/angel-writer.html
An editor that creates formatted text, graphics and tables for .TXT, .RTF, and html files.

Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Windows text editor that fits on a floppy yet offers powerful features and customizable syntax highlighting.

EditPad Classic - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadclassic.html
Notepad replacement for Windows with unlimited file size, and multiple file tabs. [Postcardware]

EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Windows text editor with block functions and Asian language support. [Non-commercial use only.]

ExtremePad - http://hammer.prohosting.com/~epgames/extremepad.shtml
Contains MinLock feature to hide important information, lines-of-code count function and email cleanup tool. [Windows]

Fuzzy Duck Note Tab - http://www.fuzzyd.co.uk/notetab/
A small note taking application that lives in the MS Windows task tray. Includes many advanced features such as a spell checker and saving to ftp. [Requires VB runtime]

GNU Nano - http://www.nano-editor.org/
Clone of the Pico text editor with some enhancements. Available for Linux and DOS. [Open Source - GPL]

Haxial TextEdit - http://www.haxialsoftware.com/products/textedit/
Features include renaming files within TextEdit and alphabetical line sorting. [Windows, Mac OS]

http://cui.unige.ch/~deriazm/Softs/RegexSR/ - http://cui.unige.ch/~deriazm/Softs/RegexSR/
A tool to create complex regular expressions and transform them into Java code.

http://dav-text.sourceforge.net/ - http://dav-text.sourceforge.net/
GNU/Linux console-based text editor. Freely licensed under the GPL.

http://leiden365.nl/blog/?page_id=579 - http://leiden365.nl/blog/?page_id=579
Combines calendar functions with text editing features. [Win 98 or better]

http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ - http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad replacement for Windows with unlimited file size, context sensitive URLs, unix file format support, and file changed notification.

http://netpadd.com/ - http://netpadd.com/
Windows text editor with syntax highlighting for several languages, XML tree view, CSS browser, HTML autocomplete, and Java compiler launcher. (Open Source)

http://nned.zj001.net/ - http://nned.zj001.net/
Syntax editor for web developer or remote UNIX administrator and UNIX and Windows programmers, support export to RTF format and HTML format.

http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ - http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
Lightweight editing tool for the GNOME desktop found in many distributions of Linux, BSD and other Unix systems. Offers a complete integration with the GNOME Environment, search and replace, configurable plugins system, command line pipes, print/print-preview, and configurable undo/redo levels.

http://www.contexteditor.org/ - http://www.contexteditor.org/
Programmer's editor with syntax highlighting, HTML and RTF export, multiple language versions, macros, columnar text selection, and a file explorer.

http://www.jedit.org/ - http://www.jedit.org/
A cross platform programmer's text editor written in Java that is customizable with plugins. [Requires Java VM]

http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/ - http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
A programmer's editor for the Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms.

http://www.pspad.com/ - http://www.pspad.com/
A programmers editor that offers unlimited length of edited text, an MDI interface, built-in FTP client, macro recorder, various templates, a full HEX editor and spell checker. Available in English, German, Czech, French, Danish, and eight other languages.

http://www.scintilla.org/ - http://www.scintilla.org/
A SCIntilla based text editor.[Win32/linux]

http://www.syuhitu.org - http://www.syuhitu.org
A simple editor for SPARC Solaris that is compatible with the Common Desktop Environment.

http://www.tetrap.com/software/yikes/ - http://www.tetrap.com/software/yikes/
Windows-based editor designed to emulate DOS edit. Supports editing of plain text and, to some extent, binary files.

http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
A tabbed editor that has several plugins to add dialer, and calendar. [Open Source, Mozilla Public License]

http://xtort.net/xtort/subpad.php - http://xtort.net/xtort/subpad.php
A simple notepad clone with a few extra features.

http://xtort.net/xtort/xint.php - http://xtort.net/xtort/xint.php
A simple editor without toolbars, redundant dialogs, or other unnecessary components. [Open Source, GPL]

ISO 8859-2 - http://isoeditor.host.sk/
Simple text editor for editing files with codepage ISO 8859-2 (Central European). [Windows]

JCreator - http://www.jcreator.com/
Provides the user with a wide range of functionality such as: Project management, project templates, syntax highlighting, wizards and a fully customizable user interface.

Jext for Windows - http://jext.sourceforge.net/
Jext is a powerful pure Java text editor. That has been mainly designed for programmers. It provides syntax colorizing (Java, Perl, XML, HTML.), auto indent, plugins, scripts, others.

LedLineIt! - http://www.sophists.com/Led/LedLineIt/
Free cross-platform, syntax coloring text editor, supports UNICODE, UTF-8, and other code page conversions. [MacOS/Windows]

Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
Editor with tabbed interface, configurable syntax highlighting, syntax folding, line numbering, multi-view, bookmarks and regular expression search and replace.

Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
Florian Balmer's free notepad replacement (licensed under the GPL) intended to be small and fast, with syntax highlighting.

Notespad - http://www.newbie.net/NotesPad/
A general text editor with configurable interface, dictionary support for seven languages, supports multiple text formats, and supports text files as large as memory allows. [Win16/Win32]

NotGNU Emacs Editor - http://www.notgnu.org/
NotGNU is a freeware, user-friendly, emacs style text editor, similar to GNU Emacs but much smaller and lighter, with a Windows look and feel. It is available for DOS, Windows 3.x/95/98/NT machines and Linux.

PechaMaker - http://www.pechamaker.com
Creates Tibetan Pecha documents, allows import/export of RTF text, and has controls for pecha layout and printing. [Win32]

Perl Code Editor - http://www.perlvision.com/pce/
A editor for Perl which includes: Syntax Coloring, Bookmarks, Auto Indenting, and Line Ending Conversion (Unix to Windows). [win32]

Programmer's File Editor - http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/
Once popular Windows editor, no longer in development.

Resource Hacker - http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
Utility to edit Windows executable resources.

Roden Web Editor - http://rodenwe.rodenpro.com/
An editor with that supports HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, XML, SVG, WML.

Steno Pad 2 - http://stenopad2.tripod.com/
A free word processor, compatible with MS Word and Word Perfect, with smaller files.

Super NoteTab Light - http://www.notetab.com/ntl.htm
Freeware version of award-winning text editor Super NoteTab.

SuperEdi - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/
Unicode text editor for programmers and web designers with syntax coloring and build-in FTP client. [Win32]

TED Notepad - http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
Offers numerous hotkeys, several clipboards, advanced searching and editing, unicode/utf-8 support, sort unique lines, reverse or translate characters, cut columns. Also supports user plugins for grep or dir. [Win32]

The Literary Machine - http://www.sommestad.com/lm.htm
LM 2000 creativity and authoring tool. Powered by a relational database that processes ideas and research for brainstorming and concept mapping. Features front-end word processing to order and compile texts into written compositions.

tsWebEditor - http://tswebeditor.tigris.org/
Windows source code editor supporting a number of programming languages. Software description, screenshots, downloads add-ons, and a small support area.

Win32pad - http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/
Small notepad replacement which supports Windows, Unix and Mac text formats, supports files as large as memory will allow, has a recent files list, configurable interface, and full intellimouse support. [Win32]

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