Comparison of text editors

==Natural language (localization)==

The following table identifies the following attributes of an editor that describe its user experience with respect to multiple documents: ; Multiple instances: Whether multiple instances of the program can be open at the same time for editing multiple files (one in each instance). Applies both for single-document interface (SDI) and multiple-document interface (MDI). Also, applies for a program that has a user interface that looks like multiple instances of the same program (such as some versions of Word). ; Single document window splitting: Whether a window can be split to simultaneously view different areas of a file. ; MDI overlappable windows: Whether each open document gets its own fully movable window inside the editor environment. ; MDI tabbed document interface: Whether multiple documents can be viewed as tabs in a single window. ; MDI window splitting: Whether supports splitting the application window to show multiple documents (non-overlapping windows). ==Basic features==

==Additional programming features==

Notes: ; Vim: Custom maps of Ctrl-1 .. Ctrl-9, Ctrl-0 cannot be set, nor is Control-Shift-<char> distinguished from Ctrl-<char>. ; Notepad++: Custom shortcuts of Shift-<char> cannot be set, they need an added modifier such as Ctrl or Alt. i.e. SCI_LINESCROLLUP cannot be bound to "Shift-I"as the "Add"button is greyed out. ; Pico: Pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ^B ^P ^N ^D etc. ==Protocol support==

==Character encoding support==

The following table identifies notable character encodings that an editor supports can load, save, view and edit text in the encoding without changing any characters. Partial implies that the editor can only convert the character encoding to internal (8-bit) format for editing, some encodings are supported only in some platforms or the editor can only display a character set (such as OEM) by loading corresponding font, but does not support keyboard entry for that character set. == Right-to-left and bidirectional text ==

Support for right-to-left (RTL) text is necessary for editing some languages like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish and the mixture of left-to-right (LTR) and RTL known as bidirectional (BiDi). The following table indicates whether an editor supports RTL and BiDi text. Some editors (e.g. Notepad++ 5.1.3) can render bidirectional text but does not support editing it. ==Newline support==

The following table identifies newline support of editors. The three options are: ; CR/LF: Generally, used on Windows. ; LF: Generally, used on Unix-like systems (including macOS). ; CR: Generally, used on Classic Mac OS. ==See also==