Funny list of text editors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

System default

* Notepad (default under Microsoft Windows)
* SimpleText (default under Classic Mac OS)
* TextEdit (default under Mac OS X)
* XEDIT (default under VM/CMS)
* Edit (default under RISC OS)
* ed (no relation to unix-ed, default under AmigaOS)
* Gedit (default under GNOME (Linux))
* Kwrite (default under KDE (Linux))

[edit] Free software (free/libre/open-source)

* Acme — A User Interface for Programmers by Rob Pike
* AkelPad
* Beaver
* Bluefish
* Crimson Editor and its successor Emerald Editor
* Geany — fast and lightweight editor / IDE. Uses GTK+.
* gedit — a simple GNOME text editor. Fairly equivalent to KEdit.
* jEdit — free cross-platform programmer's editor written in Java. GNU GPL licenced.
* JOVE — Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
* JuffEd — lightweight text editor written on Qt4
* Kate — text editor for the KDE desktop
* Kedit — KDE editor roughly similar in sophistication to Windows Notepad, but with a spellchecker.
* Kile — User friendly TeX/LaTeX editor
* KWrite — a KDE editor more sophisticated than KEdit.
* Leafpad
* MadEdit — a cross-platform text and hex editor
* medit
* MicroEMACS
* NEdit — "Nirvana Editor"
* Notepad++ — a tabbed text editor
* Notepad2
* PPC edit — text editor for Pocket PC
* Programmer's Notepad
* Sam
* SciTE
* Smultron — a Mac OS X text editor
* TEA - multifunctional text editor
* TeXnicCenter
* TextForge - a GPL Cocoa Mac OS X editor
* TextRoom - a GPL fullscreen text editor for Qt.
* The Hessling Editor
* X11 Xedit
* Yi editor
* Yudit

[edit] Freeware

* HiEditor
* Arachnophilia
* BBEdit Lite
* BDV Notepad
* Bred
* ConTEXT
* Eddie — A text editor originally made for BeOS and later ported to Linux and Mac OS X.
* EDXOR
* EditPad Lite
* EmEditor Free
* Editor²
* GridinSoft Notepad Lite
* HAPedit
* Komodo Edit
* LEd — LaTeX Editor
* LopeEdit Lite
* MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004
* Mi — A Japanese text editor, with an English version
* Metapad
* NotesHolder Lite
* Notepad+
* NoteTab Light
* q10 — Full screen text editor (Windows)
* Programmer's File Editor (PFE)
* PSPad editor
* Rainbow Editor (free for students)
* roPEdit
* RPad32
* subpad
* Syn Text Editor (Windows)
* SuperEdi
* TED Notepad
* TeXShop — TeX/LaTeX editor and previewer
* TextWrangler
* TotalEdit
* Win32Pad
* WhizNote

[edit] Personal license (free for individuals)

* HTML Kit

[edit] Commercial

* Alphatk
* BBEdit
* Boxer
* CodeWright
* CopyWrite
* CRiSP
* E Collaborative Text Editor
* Editeur
* EditPad Pro
* EditPlus
* EmEditor
* Epsilon
* GhostClip
* GoldED (text editor of Cubic IDE)
* GWD Text Editor
* Kedit text editor with commands and Rexx macros similar to IBM Xedit
* LopeEdit Pro
* Marile Notepad
* MED
* Multi-Edit
* Notepad
* NoteTab
* PolyEdit
* Rainbow Editor
* skEdit (formerly called skHTML)
* SlickEdit
* Source Insight
* SubEthaEdit (formerly called Hydra)
* TaterEdit (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X)
* Tex-Edit Plus
* TextMate
* TextPad and Wildedit
* TopStyle
* TotalEdit Pro
* Twistpad
* The SemWare Editor (TSE) (formerly called QEdit)
* UltraEdit
* Ulysses
* UNA
* VEDIT
* WebDesign
* WinEdt
* Zeus IDE