Text editors
Programmers editors, generic text editors or word processors that have flexible enough in formatting options that they can be used to write and edit code with. The editor can be a native OS/2 program, a Windows or DOS compatible program that runs under the DOS or Win-OS/2 sub-systems or a program that requires a runtime that is currently available and supported under OS/2 such as Java.
While most recent programmers editors are native OS/2 applications there was in the 90's a number of family mode editors on the market, these are DOS applications that took advantage of OS/2 features when running under OS/2, with support for long file names, large files, extended codepages and so on. Unlike most other applications, text and programmers editors were much more acceptable to most users as DOS or Win-OS/2 applications in place of native apps, presumably since there was less need for specific OS/2 features in a text editor than in for instance word processors or because people were already married to a specific text editor that did not come in an OS/2 version, also OS/2 allowed you to run DOS in the same codepage as you used for native OS/2 even though your national codepage for DOS differed, meaning that you could edit text files using the same character sets under the DOS subsystem and OS/2.
Therefore there is less emphasis placed here on OS/2 only or native apps than in most other sections of the site.
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Programmers editors
Text editors especially developed to edit source code and other text or binary files used for development purposes. These invariably include some automatic formatting and syntax highlighting features as a minimum, otherwise they are considered generic text editors.
| Name | Runtime | IDE Capabilities | UI | MBCS | REXX Macros | Other macro language | NLS | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackBeard/2 | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode | No | No | Keyboard only | Shareware | |
| Boxer | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode | No | No | Keyboard only | DE | Commercial |
| BRIEF | OS/2 + DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | Keyboard + LISP like language + CBRIEF C like language | Commercial | |
| Code Quill | Java | No | GUI | No | No | ?? | EN | Shareware |
| Condor Editor | DOS | Very limited | Text mode | No | No | Commercial | ||
| EBE | OS/2 | Yes | GUI | No | No | No | Open Source | |
| elvis | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode + X11 GUI | No | No | No | Open Source | |
| Emacs | OS/2 + DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | LISP like | Open Source | |
| Enhanced Editor | OS/2 | Yes | GUI | No | Yes | E | UK, DE, FR, RU, ES, BR, DU, DK, SE and more | Commercial |
| Fast Editor Lite | OS/2 | Very limited | Text mode | No | Yes | EN | Open Source | |
| FTE | OS/2 + DOS | Limited | Text mode | No | No | EN | Open Source | |
| Future Wave Editor | OS/2 | Limited | GUI | DBCS | Yes | No | JP RU | Shareware |
| Hybrid Editor XE | OS/2 + DOS + Java | Very limited | Text mode | DBCS | Yes | Simple C like language for parsing (Syntax highlighting etc) | JP | Open Source |
| ISPF | OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 | No | Text mode + GUI | Yes | Commercial | |||
| JED | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode | No | No | C like | Open Source | |
| jEdit | Java | Yes | GUI | Unicode | No | No | Open Source | |
| KEDIT | OS/2 + DOS | Very limited | Text mode | No | No | Yes | Commercial | |
| Kudzu Text Editor (KEd) | OS/2 | No | Text mode | No | No | No | Open Source | |
| KON Editor | OS/2 | Very limited | GUI | No | No | C like | Open Source | |
| LPEX (IBM VisualAge products) | OS/2 | Yes | GUI | Yes | CN, JP, DE | Commercial - only shipped as part of other products | ||
| Lugaru Epsilon | OS/2 + DOS | Very limited | Text mode | No | No | C like | Commercial | |
| MED | OS/2 | No | GUI | No | No | DE | Shareware | |
| Magma Editor | OS/2 | No | Text mode | No | No | C like + keyboard | ES | Commercial |
| MicroEMACS | OS/2 + DOS | No | No | Open Source | ||||
| Microsoft Editor | OS/2 + DOS | Very limited | Text mode | No | No | No | Commercial - only shipped as part of other products | |
| NEdit | OS/2 (X11) | Very limited | X11 GUI | No | No | C like | Open Source | |
| Pedit | DOS | No | Text mode | No | No | Keyboard only | Freeware | |
| Preditor/2 | OS/2 | No | No | Shareware | ||||
| ProEdit | OS/2 | No | Text mode | No | No | No | Freeware | |
| Program Editor | OS/2 | No | GUI | No | No | Freeware | ||
| Programmer's File Editor | WinOS/2 | No | GUI | No | No | Keyboard only | Freeware | |
| QEdit | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text Mode | No | No | Keyboard + Pascal like | DE | Commercial |
| Rand Editor | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode | No | No | Open Source | ||
| RimStar | OS/2 | Limited | GUI | No | No | Commercial | ||
| Sage Professional Editor | OS/2 + DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | C like | Commercial | ||
| SourceLink | OS/2 | - | GUI | No | Yes | No | Commercial | |
| SPF/2 | OS/2 | - | - | No | Yes | - | Commercial | |
| TEA | OS/2 | - | - | Unicode | No | - | Open Source | |
| THE | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode | No | Yes | No | Open Source - GNU GPL | |
| Tritus SPF | OS/2 | - | - | No | Yes | - | Commercial | |
| VEDIT | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text Mode | No | No | Yes | Commercial | |
| vi | No | Text mode | No | No | No | Open Source | ||
| Vile | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode | No | No | No | Open Source | |
| vim | OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 | Limited | Text mode | No | No | Open Source | ||
| Visual SlickEdit | OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 | Yes | GUI | No | C like with REXX like parsing | EN | Commercial | |
| X2 Programmer's Editor | OS/2 + DOS | Very limited | Text mode | No | Yes | No | Freeware | |
| xvi | OS/2 + DOS | No | PM Text mode | No | No | No | Open Source |
Generic text editors
| Name | Runtime | Type | Binary Ed. | UI | MBCS | REXX Macros | Other macro language | NLS | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDLIN | DOS | No | Line mode | No | included in DOS | ||||
| Enhanced E & Enhanced EE | OS/2 | Generic | No | GUI | Freeware (EE) & Shareware (EEE) | ||||
| FlexEdit | OS/2 | In-memory | Yes | GUI | No | Keyboard only | Freeware | ||
| Full Screen Editor | DOS | In-memory | No | Text mode | No | Commercial | |||
| MinEd | DOS | Multi-charset | No | Text mode | Unicode | No | No | Open source | |
| OS/2 System Editor | OS/2 | Multi-charset | No | PM | DBCS | No | DE, FR, ES | included in OS/2 | |
| Personal Editor | DOS | - | No | Text mode | No | IBM | |||
| Professional Editor | DOS | - | No | Text mode | No | IBM | |||
| T/Tinyed | OS/2 + DOS | No | Text mode | No | DE, ES, FR, NL, DK, SE, IC | IBM |
Word processors
| Name | Runtime | Plain text editing | UI | MBCS | REXX Macros | Other macro language | NLS | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ability Plus | DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | No | DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, HU (freeware version English only) | Commercial - Now freeware |
| Borland Sprint | DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | C like - Compiled | DE, FR | Commercial |
| Carta Certa | DOS + WinOS/2 | Yes | Text mode (DOS) + GUI (Win) | No | No | PT | Commercial | |
| CA-Textor | OS/2 + WinOS/2 | Yes | GUI | No | No | No | DE, UK, FR | Commercial |
| Clearlook | OS/2 | Yes | GUI | No | No | No | Commercial | |
| Describe | OS/2 | Yes | GUI | DE, FR | Commercial | |||
| Displaywrite | OS/2 + DOS | Yes | Text mode | EN, DE, FR | Commercial | |||
| Final Word | DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | Yes | EN | Commercial |
| Locoscript | DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | EN | Commercial | |
| Lotus Word Pro | OS/2 + WinOS/2 | Yes | GUI | DBCS | In a roundabout way | LotusScript | IE, ES, SE, BR, NL, FI, FR, DE, DK, NO, IT | Commercial |
| Microsoft Word | OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 | Yes | Text mode + GUI | No | No | UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL | Commercial - Some versions now freeware | |
| OpenOffice Writer | OS/2 | Yes | GUI | No | No | No | DE, EN, NL, ES | Open source |
| PC-Write | DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | No | IC | Commercial |
| Pipedream | DOS | Sort of | Text mode | No | No | No | Commercial | |
| StarWriter | OS/2 + DOS | Yes | GUI + Text mode | No | No | DE, EN, NL | Commercial | |
| StarOffice | OS/2 | Yes | GUI | No | No | Java | DE, EN, NL, ES | Commercial |
| VDE | DOS | Yes | Text mode | No | No | Yes | EN | Was shareware - now free |
Special feature text editors
| Name | Runtime | Type | UI | MBCS | REXX Macros | Other macro language | NLS | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy's Editor | OS/2 + DOS | Folding editor | VIO | No | ext. | No | Freeware | |
| Einfalt | OS/2 | Non-modal | GUI | Unicode | Limited | No | IC | Propriety |
| HTE | OS/2 | Binary/exe editor | Text mode | No | No | Keyboard only | Open source | |
| LaCoD | OS/2 + DOS | LaTeX editor | Text mode | No | No | Keyboard only | Commercial | |
| QXmlEdit | OS/2 | Qt based XML editor | GUI | Unicode | No | None | Open source | |
| TeXPERT | OS/2 + DOS | LaTeX/emTeX/TeX editor | Text mode | No | No | Keyboard only | DE | Commercial |
