The following is a list of notable

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Graphical and text user interface

The following editors can either be used with a

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or a

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Graphical user interface

Text user interface

System default

Others

vi clones

Sources:

No user interface (editor libraries/toolkits)

ASCII and ANSI art

Editors that are specifically designed for the creation of

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and

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text art. * ACiDDraw – designed for editing ASCII text art. Supports ANSI color (ANSI X3.64) * JavE – ASCII editor, portable to any platform running a

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GUI * PabloDraw – ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via

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network connections *

TheDraw TheDraw is a text editor for MS-DOS to create ANSI and animations as well as ASCII art. The editor is especially useful to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents, which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages, bec ...

–

text editor for

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and

PCBoard PCBoard (PCB) was a bulletin board system (BBS) application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Clark Development Company. Clark Development was founded by Fred Clark. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and was ...

file format support

ASCII font editors

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– for creating ASCII art text *

– MS-DOS ANSI/ASCII text editor with built-in editor and manager of ASCII fonts * PabloDraw – .NET text editor designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art

Historical

Visual and full-screen editors

Line editors

Notes

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Text editors A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be us ...