medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.
Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.


Enki is described as 'Text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as quickly as possible. Without mouse. -Lighweight. Some IDEs show splashscreen. enki will never do it. It just sta' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Enki for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Enki alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Enki are Sublime Text, Eclipse, Geany and gedit.
medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.
Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.


Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.




BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.



Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.




Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.




HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use Windows text editor, primarily targeted at power users and programmers. It has modern and lightweight user interface, which supports different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File Explorer and...




Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML autocompletion...
Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.



People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs.



