E - TextEditor

E is a new text editor for Windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. It makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual work.

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Linux

e is a new text editor for windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. it makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual work. you can extend it in any language, and by supporting textmate bundles, it allows you to tap into a huge and active community.

source code is available at github: http://github.com/etexteditor/e

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Free Open Source Windows

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Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

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gedit

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

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Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion
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Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more.

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Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support.

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Coda

Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And a dash of SSH too.

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Real time collaboration Syntax Highlighting Built in File Manager
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GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

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Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.

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Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows
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