Open Source Windows Text Editors

A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.

RText is a customizable programmer's text editor written in Java. Some of its features include: syntax highlighting, editing multiple documents at once, printing and print preview, find/replace/find in files dialogs, undo/redo, and online help.

NoteCase is portable (Linux, Win32) hierarchical notes manager (aka outliner) coded in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. Project is inactive as of 2008/12/09, read more at: http://factoriel.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html

Diff-ext is an extension for filemanagers such as Windows Explorer and Nautilus that allows to launch diff/merge tools on selected files.

Refurbished Scintilla.orgs/SciTE with some additional patches. -- Features -- - Full MinGW and GTK SDKs Autocomplete.(190+) - Do system scripting (bash, applescript, cmd, powershell, perl, j/vbscript, awk) - Examine all sorts of data files (sql, regedit, mib, xml, yaml, json, vcard ...) - Review difference and patch files - Create makefiles (gnu make / cmake) - Edit html, css and config files (with calltips) - Describe circuits in vhdl and spice. ... - And finally; read & write source code: - [ Syntax highlighted ] - go, vala, pike, swift, flash, ch, rust - [ Calltip assisted ] - c/cpp11, js&jQuery, python, php, ruby, lua, c#, java, perl --Others-- - Restructured config files with inline docs - Scriptable via lua Extension. - Provides theming, a customizeable toolbar, a sidebar with a File Browser and a cleaned up options Menu. --- Summary --- Enjoy your vlc for sourceCode lecture ;) (30Langs)

An experimental file reader, useful for people interested in speed-reading. There are several modes for mirroring characters, words or lines.

ePen - A cross platform tool for creative writers and book authors. ePen is able to manage all information around a book project: The actual text, descriptions of the characters and scenes, the storyline.

This software is an experimental visual file reader, useful e.g. for people interested in speed-reading and brain-training.

Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. Far Manager works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions: viewing files and directories; editing, copying and renaming files; and many other actions. Far Manager has a multi-language, easily configurable interface. File system navigation is made easier through the use of color highlighting and sort groups. The functionality of Far Manager is greatly extended by external DLL modules — plugins (made possible by a special set of interfaces — the Plugins API). For example: archive support, FTP client, temporary panel and network browser are all implemented as plugins included in the standard distribution of Far.

Text Edit Applet is a Java applet providing WYSIWYG editing for small texts.

Type Electric - 3D technology brought to word processing; accelerated glyph pumping out like blood sprites in Quake. No worry about the layout anymore, it will create the worst one on its own.