There are no colors or use of different fonts for different headings. There is no bolding, underlining, or italicizing. The term Text Editor is now reserved for small utilities that eschew almost all aspects of print layout and text formatting. Modern Word Processors are really about formatting for print. Over time however, Word Processors have evolved into very sophisticated Graphical Layout and Formatting tools. In the early days of the personal computer, there was little point in distinguishing between the terms "word processor" and "text editor." Word Processors like wordstar and xywrite were designed mainly to let you edit text, with minimal formatting capabilities. Just make sure to grab the latest beta version which has working wordwrap code! Before you buy a text editor, you owe it to yourself to try out the freeware PSPad. A full featured 30 day trial version is available for download here (non-english versions also available).Īfter some recent fixes, we are happy to give PSPad our award for best Freeware text editor - PSPad is amazingly powerful and versatile, with an active international user forum. But the price is not altogether unreasonable given the depth and breadth of the program. UltraEdit is a shareware program, and costs $40 (as of 4/23/05), which is a substantial price to pay for a text editor given all of its competition. And in this case, the very best is UltraEdit, the winner of our Best Text Editor Award. However, if you are one of those people that is constantly working inside a text editor, then you may care enough to want the very best. If you don't use a text editor very much, it probably doesn't matter much which one you use, as long as it's not notepad. There are some very good text editors available today, both commercial and freeware.
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