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


==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
!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||-
|[[EDLIN]]||DOS||-||No||Line mode||-||No||-||EN||included in DOS||-
|-
|-
|[[Enhanced E]] & Enhanced EE||OS/2||Generic||No||GUI||??||??||??||English||Freeware (EE) & Shareware (EEE)||Current
|[[Enhanced E]] & Enhanced EE||OS/2||Generic||No||GUI||?||?||?||EN||Freeware (EE) & Shareware (EEE)||Current
|-
|-
|[[FlexEdit]]||OS/2||In-memory||Yes||GUI||??||No||Keyboard only||English||Freeware||Current
|[[FlexEdit]]||OS/2||In-memory||Yes||GUI||?||No||Keyboard only||EN||Freeware||Current
|-
|-
|[[Full Screen Editor]]||DOS||In-memory||No||Text mode||??||No||??||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Full Screen Editor]]||DOS||In-memory||No||Text mode||?||No||?||EN||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[MinEd]]||DOS||Multi-charset||No||Text mode||Unicode||No||No||English||Open source||Current
|[[MinEd]]||DOS||Multi-charset||No||Text mode||Unicode||No||No||EN||Open source||Current
|-
|-
|[[OS/2 System Editor]]||OS/2||Multi-charset||No||PM||DBCS||No||-||English||included in OS/2||Current
|[[OS/2 System Editor]]||OS/2||Multi-charset||No||PM||DBCS||No||-||EN, DE, FR, ES||included in OS/2||Current
|-
|-
|[[Personal Editor]]||DOS||-||No||Text mode||??||No||-||English||IBM||-
|[[Personal Editor]]||DOS||-||No||Text mode||?||No||-||EN||IBM||-
|-
|-
|[[Professional Editor]]||DOS||-||No||Text mode||??||No||-||English||IBM||-
|[[Professional Editor]]||DOS||-||No||Text mode||?||No||-||EN||IBM||-
|-
|[[T]]||OS/2 + DOS||-||No||Text mode||??||No||-||English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic||IBM||-
|-
|-
|[[T]] Tinyed||OS/2 + DOS||-||No||Text mode||??||No||-||EN, DE, ES, FR, NL, DK, SE, IC||IBM||-
|}
|}


==Word processors==
==Word processors==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
!Name||Runtime||Plain text editing||UI||DBCS or Unicode||REXX Macros||Other macro language||Language||License!!Status
!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
|[[Ability Plus]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||No||EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, HU 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
|[[Borland Sprint]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||C like - Compiled||EN, DE, FR||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[Carta Certa]]||DOS + WinOS/2||Yes||Text mode (DOS) + GUI (Win)||No||No||??||Portuguese||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
|[[CA-Textor]]||OS/2 + WinOS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||US, UK, FR||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[Clearlook]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Clearlook]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||EN||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[Describe]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||??||??||??||English, German, French and more||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Describe]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||?||?||?||EN, DE, FR and more||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[Displaywrite]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode||??||??||??||English, German, French and more||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Displaywrite]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||Text mode||?||?||?||EN, DE, FR and more||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[Final Word]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||Yes||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Final Word]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||Yes||EN||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[Locoscript]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||??||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Locoscript]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||?||EN||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  
|[[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
|[[Microsoft Word]]||OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2||Yes||Text mode + GUI||No||No||?||US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL 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
|[[OpenOffice]] Writer||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||No||DE, EN, NL, ES||Open source||Current
|-
|-
|[[Pipedream]]||DOS||Sort of||Text mode||No||No||No||English||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[PC-Write]]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||No||EN, IC||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[StarWriter]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||GUI + Text mode||No||No||??||German, English, Dutch||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[Pipedream]]||DOS||Sort of||Text mode||No||No||No||EN||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[StarOffice]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||Java||German, English, Dutch, Spanish||Commercial||Discontinued
|[[StarWriter]]||OS/2 + DOS||Yes||GUI + Text mode||No||No||?||DE, EN, NL||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/ VDE]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||Yes||English||Was shareware - now free ||Current
|[[StarOffice]]||OS/2||Yes||GUI||No||No||Java||DE, EN, NL, ES||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/ VDE]||DOS||Yes||Text mode||No||No||Yes||EN||Was shareware - now free ||Current
|}
|}


==Special feature text editors==
==Special feature text editors==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name||Runtime||Type||UI||DBCS or Unicode||REXX Macros||Other macro language||Language||License!!Status
!Name||Runtime||Type||UI||DBCS or Unicode||REXX Macros||Other macro language||Language||License||Status
|-
|-
|[[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||EN||Freeware||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[Einfalt]]||OS/2||Non-modal||GUI||Unicode||Limited||No||English & Icelandic||Propriety||Current
|[[Einfalt]]||OS/2||Non-modal||GUI||Unicode||Limited||No||EN, IC||Propriety||Current
|-
|-
|[[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||EN||Open source||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[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||EN||Commercial||Discontinued
|-
|-
|[[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||EN||Open source||Current
|-
|-
|[[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||EN, DE||Commercial||Discontinued
|}
|}


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[[Category:Text editors]]

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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.

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.

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 DBCS or Unicode REXX Macros Other macro language Language License Status
BlackBeard/2 OS/2 + DOS No Text mode No No Keyboard only English Shareware Discontinued
Boxer OS/2 + DOS No Text mode No No Keyboard only EN, DE Commercial Discontinued
BRIEF OS/2 + DOS Yes Text mode No No Keyboard + LISP like language + CBRIEF C like language EN Commercial Discontinued
Code Quill Java No GUI No No ?? EN Shareware Discontinued
Condor Editor DOS Very limited Text mode No No ? EN Commercial Discontinued
EBE OS/2 Yes GUI No No No EN Open Source Current
Elvis OS/2 + DOS No Text mode + X11 GUI No No No EN Open Source Current
Emacs OS/2 + DOS Yes Text mode No No LISP like EN Open Source Discontinued
Enhanced Editor OS/2 Yes GUI No Yes E UK, US, DE, FR, RU, ES, BR, DU, DK, SE and more Commercial Discontinued but still shipped with OS
Fast Editor Lite OS/2 Very limited Text mode No Yes ?? EN Open Source Discontinued
FTE OS/2 + DOS Limited Text mode No No ? EN Open Source Discontinued
Future Wave Editor OS/2 Limited GUI DBCS Yes No EN, 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) EN, JP Open Source Current
ISPF OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 No Text mode + GUI ? Yes ? EN Commercial Discontinued
JED OS/2 + DOS No Text mode No No C like EN Open Source Current
jEdit Java Yes GUI Unicode No No EN Open Source Current
KEDIT OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode No No Yes EN Commercial Discontinued
Kudzu Text Editor (KEd) OS/2 No Text mode No No No EN Open Source Current
KON Editor OS/2 Very limited GUI No No C like EN Open Source Discontinued
LPEX (IBM VisualAge products) OS/2 Yes GUI Yes ? ? EN, CN, JP, DE Commercial - only shipped as part of other products ?
Lugaru Epsilon OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode No No C like EN Commercial Current
MED OS/2 No GUI No No ?? EN, DE Shareware Current
Magma Editor OS/2 No Text mode No No C like + keyboard EN, ES Commercial Discontinued
MicroEMACS OS/2 + DOS No No EN Open Source Discontinued
Microsoft Editor OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode No No No EN Commercial - only shipped as part of other products Discontinued
NEdit OS/2 (X11) Very limited X11 GUI No No C like EN Open Source Discontinued
Pedit DOS No Text mode No No Keyboard only EN Freeware Discontinued
Preditor/2 OS/2 ? ? No No ? EN Shareware Discontinued
ProEdit OS/2 No Text mode No No No EN Freeware Discontinued
Program Editor OS/2 No GUI No No ? EN Freeware Current
Programmer's File Editor WinOS/2 No GUI No No Keyboard only EN Freeware Discontinued
QEdit OS/2 + DOS No Text Mode No No Keyboard + Pascal like EN, DE Commercial Discontinued
Rand Editor OS/2 + DOS No Text mode No No ? EN Open Source Discontinued
RimStar OS/2 Limited GUI No No ?? EN Commercial Discontinued
Sage Professional Editor OS/2 + DOS Yes Text mode No ? C like EN Commercial Discontinued
SourceLink OS/2 - GUI No Yes No EN Commercial Discontinued
SPF/2 OS/2 - - No Yes - EN Commercial Discontinued
TEA OS/2 - - Unicode No - EN Open Source Current
THE OS/2 + DOS No Text mode No Yes No EN Open Source - GNU GPL Current
Tritus SPF OS/2 - - No Yes - EN Commercial Discontinued
VEDIT OS/2 + DOS No Text Mode No No Yes EN Commercial DOS and OS/2 development discontinued but DOS version still sold
vi N/A No Text mode No No No EN Open Source Current
Vile OS/2 + DOS No Text mode No No No EN Open Source Current
VIM OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 Limited Text mode No No ? EN Open Source Current
Visual SlickEdit OS/2 + DOS + WinOS/2 Yes Text mode + GUI ? No C like with REXX like parsing EN Commercial OS/2 Version discontinued
X2 Programmer's Editor OS/2 + DOS Very limited Text mode No Yes No EN Freeware Discontinued
xvi OS/2 + DOS No PM Text mode No No No EN Open Source Current

Generic text editors

Name Runtime Type Binary Ed. UI DBCS or Unicode REXX Macros Other macro language Language License Status
EDLIN DOS - No Line mode - No - EN included in DOS -
Enhanced E & Enhanced EE OS/2 Generic No GUI ? ? ? EN Freeware (EE) & Shareware (EEE) Current
FlexEdit OS/2 In-memory Yes GUI ? No Keyboard only EN Freeware Current
Full Screen Editor DOS In-memory No Text mode ? No ? EN Commercial Discontinued
MinEd DOS Multi-charset No Text mode Unicode No No EN Open source Current
OS/2 System Editor OS/2 Multi-charset No PM DBCS No - EN, DE, FR, ES included in OS/2 Current
Personal Editor DOS - No Text mode ? No - EN IBM -
Professional Editor DOS - No Text mode ? No - EN IBM -
T Tinyed OS/2 + DOS - No Text mode ?? No - EN, DE, ES, FR, NL, DK, SE, IC IBM -

Word processors

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 EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, HU and more. Freeware version English only Commercial - Now freeware Discontinued
Borland Sprint DOS Yes Text mode No No C like - Compiled EN, DE, FR 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, UK, FR Commercial Discontinued
Clearlook OS/2 Yes GUI No No No EN Commercial Discontinued
Describe OS/2 Yes GUI ? ? ? EN, DE, FR and more Commercial Discontinued
Displaywrite OS/2 + DOS Yes Text mode ? ? ? EN, DE, FR and more Commercial Discontinued
Final Word DOS Yes Text mode No No Yes EN Commercial Discontinued
Locoscript DOS Yes Text mode No No ? EN 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, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL and more. Commercial - Some versions now freeware Discontinued
OpenOffice Writer OS/2 Yes GUI No No No DE, EN, NL, ES Open source Current
PC-Write DOS Yes Text mode No No No EN, IC Commercial Discontinued
Pipedream DOS Sort of Text mode No No No EN Commercial Discontinued
StarWriter OS/2 + DOS Yes GUI + Text mode No No ? DE, EN, NL Commercial Discontinued
StarOffice OS/2 Yes GUI No No Java DE, EN, NL, ES Commercial Discontinued
VDE DOS Yes Text mode No No Yes EN Was shareware - now free Current

Special feature text editors

Name Runtime Type UI DBCS or Unicode REXX Macros Other macro language Language License Status
Andy's Editor OS/2 + DOS Folding editor VIO No ext. No EN Freeware Discontinued
Einfalt OS/2 Non-modal GUI Unicode Limited No EN, IC Propriety Current
HTE OS/2 Binary/exe editor Text mode No No Keyboard only EN Open source Discontinued
LaCoD OS/2 + DOS LaTeX editor Text mode No No Keyboard only EN Commercial Discontinued
QXmlEdit OS/2 Qt based XML editor GUI Unicode No None EN Open source Current
TeXPERT OS/2 + DOS LaTeX/emTEX/TEX editor Text mode No No Keyboard only EN, DE Commercial Discontinued
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