Here is a list of most of the editors available on SDF. To use
one of these as a default, set the environment variables EDITOR
and VISUAL with the path to the editor.
ed Ken Thompson's editor (original UNIX editor)
ex An EXtended ed line editor (between ed & vi)
vi Bill Joy's modal editor (VIsual editor)
nvi new vi (re-implemented)
bvi Gerhard Buergmann's VI based binary hex editor
vim an improved clone of Bill Joy's vi, 'the programmer's editor'
vilearn VI interactive tutorial
vimtutor vim interactive tutorial
vile VI Like Emacs (between vi & emacs)
EMACS EMACS was written in ITS TECO and is not available for UNIX
emacs Richard Stallman's (GNU) emacs clone
mg The GNU microEMACS
beav A slightly emacs like binary editor
zile Sandro Sigala's emacs clone
ce Chet Ramey's emacs clone
jed John E Davis' emacs clone
jove Jonathan Payne's emacs clone
pico Mark Crispin's MM SEND editor (?), basic and simple
nano a pico clone that has developed more features
micro more intuitive (uses Windows shortcuts) simple editor than nano
joe mode-less UI with shortcuts like Wordstar, can emulate emacs ('jmacs'), pico ('jpico')
hexedit Pascal Rigaux's binary hex editor
ee Hugh Mahon's Easy Editor
hnb The Hierachical NoteBook browser/editor
ne Cambridge Text Editor (not 64bit compatible)
ve NTHU-CS Maple BBS editor (supports Chinese)
id3ed Peter Karlsson's mp3 TAG editor
id3 Robert Woodcock's mp3 TAG editor
id3v2 Myer Carpenter's mp3 TAG editor