Lists of Text Editors

I am very much fond of text editors. It could be because the way I use a computer mostly revolves around creating plain text files or editing text for transferring to or further processing with other applications. Aside from Firefox, a text editor is the application I really need to have in my computer.

Since there are many different ways of working with text, no one editor can be all things to all people. Because of this, and the fact that text editors are relatively easy to make, there is an abundance of text editors in the Internet. Most of these are free or at least have a trial version.

Due to this abundance and my need to work with text, it has been a hobby of mine to collect and play with text editors. I would download new text editors or newer versions of those I already have and use it for a while. And like a game, I would rank them in my system and bump others up or down. Some get uninstalled.

My current favorites are TextPad and EditPlus. These are great shareware programs that deserve a lot of attention. PSPad and Notepad++ are not far from the list and these are free.

But the growing number of text editors make it hard to keep track of them all, much less to be informed of worthy new comers. Luckily, I found these lists:

• TextEditors.org
• Wikipedia List
• Wikipedia Comparison

So, for those of you who, like me, are fond of these useful tools, that should keep you busy.