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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]].
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 hybrid text mode DOS-OS/2 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 WinOS/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 a 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.
While most recent programmers editors are native OS/2 applications there was in the 90s 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.
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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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.
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.


{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name||Runtime||IDE Capabilities||UI||MBCS||REXX Macros||Other macro language||NLS||Licence
|-
|-
!Name||Runtime||IDE Capabilities||UI||DBCS or Unicode||REXX Macros||Other macro language||Language||License!!Status
|[[BlackBeard/2]]||OS/2|| ||Text mode|| || ||Keyboard only|| ||Shareware
|-
|-
|[[BlackBeard/2]]||OS/2 + DOS||No||Text mode||No||No||Keyboard only||English||Shareware||Discontinued
|[[Boxer]]||OS/2 + DOS|| ||Text mode|| || ||Keyboard only||DE||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Boxer]]||OS/2 + DOS||No||Text mode||No||No||Keyboard only||English & German||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[BRIEF]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode || || ||Keyboard + [[LISP]] like language + CBRIEF [[C]] like language|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[BRIEF]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode ||No||No||Keyboard + [[LISP]] like language + CBRIEF [[C]] like language||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Code Quill]]||Java|| ||GUI|| || || ||EN||Shareware
|-
|-
|[[Code Quill]]||Java||No||GUI||No||No||??||English||Shareware||Discontinued
|[[Condor Editor]]||DOS||Very limited||Text mode|| || || || ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Condor Editor]]||DOS||Very limited||Text mode ||No||No||??||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|EBE||OS/2||Yes||GUI|| || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[EBE]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||English||Open Source||Current
|[[elvis]]||OS/2 + DOS|| ||Text mode + [[X11]]|| || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[Elvis]]||OS/2 + DOS||No||Text mode + [[X11]] GUI||No||No||No||English||Open Source||Current
|[[Emacs]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode|| || ||[[LISP]] like|| ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[Emacs]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||[[LISP]] like||English||Open Source||Discontinued
|[[Enhanced Editor]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI|| ||Yes||E||UK, DE, FR, RU, ES, BR, DU, DK, SE and more||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Enhanced Editor]]||OS/2||Yes ||GUI||No||Yes||E||UK + US English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Danish Swedish and more||Commercial||Discontinued but still shipped with OS
|[[Fast Editor Lite]]||OS/2||Very limited||Text mode|| ||Yes|| ||EN||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[Fast Editor Lite]]||OS/2||Very limited||Text mode ||No||Yes||??||English ||Open Source||Discontinued
|[[FTE]]||OS/2 + DOS||Limited||Text mode|| || || ||EN||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[FTE]]||OS/2 + DOS||Limited||Text mode ||No||No||??||English ||Open Source||Discontinued
|[[Future Wave Editor]]||OS/2||Limited||GUI||DBCS||Yes|| ||JP RU||Shareware
|-
|-
|[[Future Wave Editor]]||OS/2||Limited||GUI||DBCS||Yes||No||English, Japanese & Russian||Shareware||Current
|[[Hybrid Editor XE]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode||DBCS||Yes||Simple [[C]] like language for parsing (Syntax highlighting etc)||JP||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[Hybrid Editor XE]]||OS/2 + DOS + Java||Very limited||Text mode||DBCS||Yes||Simple [[C]] like language for parsing (Syntax highlighting etc)||English & Japanese||Open Source||Current
|[[ISPF Client/Server]]||OS/2 + Win|| ||Text mode + GUI|| ||Yes|| || ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[ISPF]]||OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2||No||Text mode + GUI||??||Yes||??||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[JED]]||OS/2 + DOS||No||Text mode|| || ||[[C]] like|| ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[JED]]||OS/2 + DOS||No||Text mode||No||No||[[C]] like||English||Open Source||Current
|[[jEdit]]||Java||Yes||GUI||Unicode|| || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[jEdit]]||Java||Yes||GUI||Unicode||No||No||English||Open Source||Current
|[[KEDIT]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode|| || ||Yes|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[KEDIT]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode||No||No||Yes||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Kudzu Text Editor]] (KEd)||OS/2||No||Text mode|| || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[Kudzu Text Editor]] (KEd)||OS/2||No||Text mode||No||No||No||English ||Open Source|| Current
|[[KON Editor]]||OS/2||Very limited||GUI||No||No||C like|| ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[KON Editor]]||OS/2 ||Very limited ||GUI||No||No||C like ||English||Open Source|| Discontinued
|[[LPEX]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||Yes|| || ||CN, JP, DE||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[LPEX]] (IBM VisualAge products)||OS/2||Yes||GUI||Yes||??||??||English, Chinese, Japanese & German||Commercial - only shipped as part of other products||Discontinued
|[[Lugaru Epsilon]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode|| || ||[[C]] like|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Lugaru Epsilon]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode||No||No||[[C]] like||English||Commercial|| Current
|[[MED]]||OS/2|| ||GUI|| || || ||DE||Shareware
|-
|-
|[[MED]]||OS/2||No||GUI||No||No||??||English, German||Shareware||Current
|[[ME Programmer's Text Editor]]||OS/2|| ||Text mode|| || ||[[C]] like + keyboard||ES||Shareware
|-
|-
|[[Magma Editor]]||OS/2||No||Text mode||No||No||[[C]] like + keyboard||English, Spanish||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[MicroEMACS]]||OS/2 + DOS|| || || || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[MicroEMACS]]||OS/2 + DOS|| || ||No||No|| ||English||Open Source||Discontinued
|[[Microsoft Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode|| || || || ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Microsoft Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode||No||No||No||English||Commercial - only shipped as part of other products||Discontinued
|[[NEdit]]||OS/2 (X11)||Very limited||[[X11]]|| || ||[[C]] like|| ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[NEdit]]||OS/2 (X11)||Very limited||[[X11]] GUI||No||No||[[C]] like||English||Open Source||Discontinued
|[[Pedit]]||DOS|| ||Text mode|| || ||Keyboard only|| ||Freeware
|-
|-
|[[Pedit]]||DOS||No||Text mode||No||No||Keyboard only||English||Freeware||Discontinued
|[[Preditor/2]]||OS/2|| || || || || || ||Shareware
|-
|-
|[[Preditor/2]]||OS/2||??||??||No||No||??||English||Shareware||Discontinued
|[[ProEdit]]||OS/2|| ||Text mode|| || || || ||Freeware
|-
|-
|[[ProEdit]]||OS/2||No||Text mode||No||No||No||English ||Freeware||Discontinued
|[[Program Editor]]||OS/2|| ||GUI|| || || || ||Freeware  
|-
|-
|[[Program Editor]]||OS/2||No||GUI||No||No||??||English ||Freeware||Current
|[[Programmer's File Editor]]||WinOS/2|| ||GUI|| || ||Keyboard only|| ||Freeware  
|-
|-
|[[Programmer's File Editor]]||WinOS/2||No||GUI||No||No||Keyboard only||English||Freeware||Discontinued
|[[QEdit]]||OS/2 + DOS|| ||Text Mode|| || ||Keyboard + [[Pascal]] like||DE||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[QEdit]]||OS/2 + DOS||No||Text Mode||No||No||Keyboard + [[Pascal]] like||English & German||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Rand Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS|| ||Text mode|| || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[Rand Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS||No ||Text mode||No||No||??||English||Open Source||Discontinued
|[[RimStar]]||OS/2||Limited||GUI||No||No|| || ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[RimStar]]||OS/2||Limited||GUI||No||No||??||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Sage Professional Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode|| || ||[[C]] like|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Sage Professional Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||??||[[C]] like||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[SourceLink]]||OS/2||-||GUI||No||Yes|| || ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[SourceLink]]||OS/2||-||GUI||No||Yes||No||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|SPF/2||OS/2||-||-|| ||Yes||-|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[SPF/2]]||OS/2||-||-||No||Yes||-||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|TEA||OS/2||-||-||Unicode|| ||-|| ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[TEA]]||OS/2||-||-||Unicode||No||-||English||Open Source||Current
|[[THE]]||OS/2 + DOS|| ||Text mode|| ||Yes|| || ||Open Source - GNU GPL
|-
|-
|[[THE]]||OS/2 + DOS ||No||Text mode||No||Yes||No||English||Open Source - GNU GPL|| Current
|Tritus SPF||OS/2, DOS||-||-|| ||Yes||-|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Tritus SPF]]||OS/2||-||-||No||Yes||-||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|VEDIT||OS/2, DOS|| ||Text Mode|| || ||Yes|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[VEDIT]]||OS/2 + DOS ||No ||Text Mode||No||No||Yes||English||Commercial||DOS and OS/2 development discontinued but DOS version still sold
|[[vi]]|| || ||Text mode|| || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[vi]]||N/A||No||Text mode||No||No||No||English||Open Source||Current
|[[Vile]]||OS/2, DOS|| ||Text mode|| || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[Vile]]||OS/2 + DOS ||No||Text mode ||No||No||No||English||Open Source ||Current
|vim||OS/2, DOS, WinOS/2||Limited||Text mode|| || || || ||Open Source
|-
|-
|[[VIM]]||OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 ||Limited||Text mode||No||No||??||English||Open Source||Current
|[[Visual SlickEdit]]||OS/2, WinOS/2||Yes||GUI|| || ||[[C]] like with REXX like parsing||EN||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[Visual SlickEdit]]||OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2||Yes||Text mode + GUI||??||No||[[C]] like with REXX like parsing||English||Commercial||OS/2 Version discontinued
|[[X2 Programmer's Editor]]||OS/2, DOS||Very limited||Text mode|| ||Yes|| || ||Freeware
|-
|[[X2 Programmer's Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS||Very limited||Text mode||No||Yes||No||English||Freeware||Discontinued
|-
|[[xvi]]||OS/2 + DOS ||No||PM Text mode ||No||No||No||English||Open Source ||Current
|-
|-
|[[xvi]]||OS/2, DOS|| ||PM Text mode|| || || || ||Open Source
|}
|}


==Generic text editors==
==Generic text editors==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name||Runtime||Type||Binary Ed.||UI||DBCS or Unicode||REXX Macros||Other macro language||Language||License!!Status
|-
|-
|[[EDLIN]]||DOS||-||No||Line mode||-||No||-||English||included in DOS||-
!Name||Runtime||Type||Binary Ed.||UI||MBCS||REXX Macros||Other macro language||NLS||License
|-
|-
|[[Enhanced E]] & Enhanced EE||OS/2||Generic||No||GUI||??||??||??||English||Freeware (EE) & Shareware (EEE)||Current
|[[EDLIN]]||DOS|| ||No||Line mode|| ||No|| || ||included in DOS
|-
|-
|[[FlexEdit]]||OS/2||In-memory||Yes||GUI||??||No||Keyboard only||English||Freeware||Current
|[[Enhanced E]] & Enhanced EE||OS/2||Generic||No||GUI|| || || || ||Freeware (EE) & Shareware (EEE)
|-
|-
|[[Full Screen Editor]]||DOS||In-memory||No||Text mode||??||No||??||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[FlexEdit]]||OS/2||In-memory||Yes||GUI|| ||No||Keyboard only|| ||Freeware
|-
|-
|[[MinEd]]||DOS||Multi-charset||No||Text mode||Unicode||No||No||English||Open source||Current
|Full Screen Editor||DOS||In-memory||No||Text mode|| ||No|| || ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[OS/2 System Editor]]||OS/2||Multi-charset||No||PM||DBCS||No||-||English||included in OS/2||Current
|MinEd||DOS||Multi-charset||No||Text mode||Unicode||No||No|| ||Open source
|-
|-
|[[Personal Editor]]||DOS||-||No||Text mode||??||No||-||English||IBM||-
|[[OS/2 System Editor]]||OS/2||Multi-charset||No||PM||DBCS||No|| ||DE, FR, ES||included in OS/2
|-
|-
|[[Professional Editor]]||DOS||-||No||Text mode||??||No||-||English||IBM||-
|[[Personal Editor]]||DOS||-||No||Text mode|| ||No|| || ||IBM
|-
|-
|[[T]]||OS/2 + DOS||-||No||Text mode||??||No||-||English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic||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==
See also: [[Word processors]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|-
!Name||Runtime||Plain text editing||UI||DBCS or Unicode||REXX Macros||Other macro language||Language||License!!Status
|-
|[[Ability Plus]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||No||English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian and more. Freeware version English only||Commercial - Now freeware||Discontinued
|-
|[[Borland Sprint]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||C like - Compiled||English, German & French||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Carta Certa]]||DOS + WinOS/2||Yes||Text mode (DOS) + GUI (Win)||No||No||??||Portuguese||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[CA-Textor]]||OS/2 + WinOS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||US + British English & French||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Clearlook]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Describe]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||??||??||??||English, German, French and more||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Displaywrite]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode||??||??||??||English, German, French and more||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Final Word]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||Yes||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Locoscript]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||??||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Lotus Word Pro]]||OS/2 + WinOS/2||Yes||GUI||DBCS||In a roundabout way||[[LotusScript]]||International English (USA, UK, Australia & South Africa), Spanish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Danish, Norwegian and Italian||Commercial||Discontinued, available unsupported with some paid support packages
|-
|[[Microsoft Word]]||OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2||Yes||Text mode + GUI||No||No||??||US English, British English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and more.||Commercial - Some versions now freeware||Discontinued
|-
|[[OpenOffice]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||German, English, Dutch, Spanish||Open source||Current
|-
|[[PC-Write]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||No||English & Icelandic||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[Pipedream]]||DOS||Sort of||Text mode||No||No||No||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[StarWriter]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||GUI + Text mode||No||No||??||German, English, Dutch||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[[StarOffice]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||Java||German, English, Dutch, Spanish||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|[https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/ VDE]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||Yes||English||Was shareware - now free ||Current
|-
|}


==Special feature text editors==
==Special feature text editors==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
{| class="wikitable"
!Name||Runtime||Type||UI||DBCS or Unicode||REXX Macros||Other macro language||Language||License!!Status
!Name||Runtime||Type||UI||MBCS||REXX Macros||Other macro language||NLS||Licence
|-
|-
|[[Andy's Editor]]||OS/2 + DOS||Folding editor||VIO||No||ext.||No||English||Freeware||Discontinued
|[[Andy's Editor]]||OS/2, DOS||Folding editor||VIO||No||ext.||No|| ||Freeware
|-
|-
|[[Einfalt]]||OS/2||Non-modal||GUI||Unicode||Limited||No||English & Icelandic||Propriety||Current
|Einfalt||OS/2||Non-modal||GUI||Unicode||Limited||No||IC||Propriety
|-
|-
|[[HTE]]||OS/2||Binary/exe editor||Text mode||No||No||Keyboard only||English||Open source||Discontinued.
|[[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||English||Commercial||Discontinued.
|[[LaCoD]]||OS/2, DOS||[[LaTeX]] editor||Text mode||No||No||Keyboard only|| ||Commercial
|-
|-
|[[QXmlEdit]]||OS/2||[[Qt]] based XML editor||GUI||Unicode||No||None||English||Open source||Current.
|[[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||English & German||Commercial||Discontinued.
|[[TeXPERT]]||OS/2, DOS||[[LaTeX]]/emTeX/TeX editor||Text mode||No||No||Keyboard only||DE||Commercial
|}
|}


[[Category:Text editors]]
[[Category:Text editors]]

Latest revision as of 17:13, 2 November 2019

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 90s 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.

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 Text mode Keyboard only Shareware
Boxer OS/2 + DOS Text mode Keyboard only DE Commercial
BRIEF OS/2 + DOS Yes Text mode Keyboard + LISP like language + CBRIEF C like language Commercial
Code Quill Java GUI EN Shareware
Condor Editor DOS Very limited Text mode Commercial
EBE OS/2 Yes GUI Open Source
elvis OS/2 + DOS Text mode + X11 Open Source
Emacs OS/2 + DOS Yes Text mode LISP like Open Source
Enhanced Editor OS/2 Yes GUI Yes E UK, DE, FR, RU, ES, BR, DU, DK, SE and more Commercial
Fast Editor Lite OS/2 Very limited Text mode Yes EN Open Source
FTE OS/2 + DOS Limited Text mode EN Open Source
Future Wave Editor OS/2 Limited GUI DBCS Yes JP RU Shareware
Hybrid Editor XE OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode DBCS Yes Simple C like language for parsing (Syntax highlighting etc) JP Open Source
ISPF Client/Server OS/2 + Win Text mode + GUI Yes Commercial
JED OS/2 + DOS No Text mode C like Open Source
jEdit Java Yes GUI Unicode Open Source
KEDIT OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode Yes Commercial
Kudzu Text Editor (KEd) OS/2 No Text mode Open Source
KON Editor OS/2 Very limited GUI No No C like Open Source
LPEX OS/2 Yes GUI Yes CN, JP, DE Commercial
Lugaru Epsilon OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode C like Commercial
MED OS/2 GUI DE Shareware
ME Programmer's Text Editor OS/2 Text mode C like + keyboard ES Shareware
MicroEMACS OS/2 + DOS Open Source
Microsoft Editor OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode Commercial
NEdit OS/2 (X11) Very limited X11 C like Open Source
Pedit DOS Text mode Keyboard only Freeware
Preditor/2 OS/2 Shareware
ProEdit OS/2 Text mode Freeware
Program Editor OS/2 GUI Freeware
Programmer's File Editor WinOS/2 GUI Keyboard only Freeware
QEdit OS/2 + DOS Text Mode Keyboard + Pascal like DE Commercial
Rand Editor OS/2 + DOS Text mode Open Source
RimStar OS/2 Limited GUI No No Commercial
Sage Professional Editor OS/2 + DOS Yes Text mode C like Commercial
SourceLink OS/2 - GUI No Yes Commercial
SPF/2 OS/2 - - Yes - Commercial
TEA OS/2 - - Unicode - Open Source
THE OS/2 + DOS Text mode Yes Open Source - GNU GPL
Tritus SPF OS/2, DOS - - Yes - Commercial
VEDIT OS/2, DOS Text Mode Yes Commercial
vi Text mode Open Source
Vile OS/2, DOS Text mode Open Source
vim OS/2, DOS, WinOS/2 Limited Text mode Open Source
Visual SlickEdit OS/2, WinOS/2 Yes GUI C like with REXX like parsing EN Commercial
X2 Programmer's Editor OS/2, DOS Very limited Text mode Yes Freeware
xvi OS/2, DOS PM Text mode 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

See also: Word processors

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
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