Text Editors

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Notepad

A text editor that is installed on all versions of Microsoft Windows. Includes basic text editing features such as word wrap, text formatting, and search and replace.  Useful for creating simple documents that do not require a lot of formatting options. 
NotePad++

Free source code editor that can also be used as a replacement for Notepad.  Notepad++ supports several languages and has many features designed for programmers  such as syntax highlighting, syntax folding, and brace and indent guideline highlighting.
Smultron

A free text editor designed for Mac users and useful for general text editing, web programming and script editing.  Features include a split window capability, quick look icons list, text snippets, preview, and the ability to run commands from within Smultron for code compilation or validation of html.  You can set multiple preferences to define your working environment.  A detailed user's manual is available at the Smultron web site.
Text Wrangler

A general purpose text editor and Unix and server administrator's tool.  Has features to support both general text editing and text editing for programmers. Can also be used as administrator tool with the ability to open and save files in a variety of line-ending formats, you can open and save text files located on remote FTP and SFTP servers and integrate TextWrangler with Unix tools and scripts.
jEdit

Another text editing tool especially designed for programmers.  Requires Java but features a built-in macro language, an extensible plugin architecture and syntax highlighting for more than 130 file types.  Special features for source code editing include auto indent, intelligent bracket matching, and commands for commenting out code.
EditPad Lite

EditPad Lite is a general purpose text editor that is free for non-commercial use.  Designed to be small and compact but with the functionality you would expect from a basic text editor.  Features the ability to open multiple files within one tabbed window, unlimited undo and redo, multiple print settings and print preview, and the ability to configure the appearance of the editor.  For professional use or additional editing features, a commercial version, EditPad Pro is available for purchase.
Crimson Editor

A professional source code editor for Windows available as Freeware.  While Crimson Editor can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it is most useful for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java. Features include syntax highlighting preconfigured for more than 100 programming languages, mult-level undo/redo, project management, find & replace, spell checker, macros, column mode editing, built-in ftp client, and option to save files in Unix format.
Bean

Small, easy-to-use rich text editor for Mac users. Includes features such as live word count, autosaving, page layout mode, alternate colors option, selection of text by text style, paragraph style and color, dictionary, word completion, and more. Does not support footnotes, columns, pre-defined, text styles or floating graphics.  Can read and write .rtf, .rtfd, .txt, .html formats and import and export .doc, .docx and .xml formats.   Not a replacement for Word or other word processor software applications that are designed for complex documents.