Text editors

AbiWord is a light weight, stand alone word processor that can read and write a large number of document formats, including MS-Word. Due to its small size it is well suited for use on older hardware, and will run happily on a 486DX with 16MB of RAM, while still letting you edit all the relevant document formats of today. Key features include HTML export, unlimited undo and redo, support for spell checking, styles, columns, tables, images, and bulleted/numbered lists. (...) read more>>

The universal freeware editor is for you if you need to: work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker, create web pages - as web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools to save your time, use a good IDE for your compiler - editor PSPad catch and parse compiler output, integrate external help files, compare versions, and much more... (...) read more>>

Notepad2 is intended to be a replacement for the Notepad program that is included as part of Windows. Like Notepad, Notepad2 is small, fast, and has few frills. It does, however, add some functionality such as colour syntax highlighting that many people will find useful, especially those that have to edit the odd HTML page or script. You can select the level of zoom and select the editing font. Notepad2 supports Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files. (...) read more>>

EditPad Lite is a text editor, designed to be small and compact. It offers all the functionality of a basic text editor.
EditPad allow you to edit multiple files at the same time. It supports many charsets, including double byte Far East languages character systems. (...) read more>>

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement) which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. (...) read more>>

Angel Writer is a free text editor allowing you to create impressive documents that contain formatted text, graphics and tables. You can learn how to work with Angel Writer in five minutes since it is very similar to Microsoft Word. (...) read more>>