Text editors

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Markers:

• (+ssh) can load and save over ssh mostly transparently (Note also that applications like WinSCP also allow a decent solution for remote editing through watching local changes on files you have opened.)
• (-syntax) does not have syntax highlighting (most do, though language supports always varies)

Pretty much all of the below do syntax highlighting.

Windows

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• notepad (-syntax)
• Notepad2 (third party; simple like notepad, but with syntax highlighting and a few other handy things)
• notepad++
• ultraedit (+ssh)

• Sublime text
• Atom

• jEdit

• Visual Studio (+ide)
• eclipse (+ide)

• Crimson Editor

Linux

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• ed, a very minimal line editor
  • ed
  • red (restricted ed - current dir, can't execute. Useful for restricted shells)
• nano
• pico
• mcedit (midnight commander in editor mode)

• Emacs
• Vim
  • vi
  • vim
  • vim.tiny

• jEdit
• nedit
• gedit

• kate (+ssh)
• kwrite (+ssh)
• kdevelop (+ssh)

• Sublime text
• Atom

• Visual Studio Code (+ide)

• SciTE

• NVU (web-specific)

Unsorted

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