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Text Editors

Subject
Guide
Description
Emacs Windows
Macintosh
Unix
Linux
& others
Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. If this seems to be a bit of a mouthful, an easier explanation is Emacs is a text editor and more.
Notepad Windows Information on using Windows Notepad
vi Unix VI is a display oriented, interactive text editor which allows a user to create, modify, and store files on the computer via a terminal.
Wordpad Windows Using the Wordpad text editor that comes with Windows