It’s a free text editor that many programmers download purely to open when they need to quickly see code and paste one-off snippets from FTP clients without having to wait for their IDE to load.

Windows/OS X/Linux: Adobe just launched Brackets 1.0, a text editor for web developers. It's free and has Inline Editing, Live Preview, and Preprocessor Support features, which all deliver unique ...

This week, the developer of the popular text- and code-editing software Notepad++ released a new version update. Nothing seemed particularly strange about it, except maybe the name: Notepad++ v7.8 ...

Our pick for the best free PDF editor is PDF Candy, because it offers something many free options do not — an OCR feature for scanning text. You can't edit OCR'd text in this web-based PDF ...

Most text editors on this list are free and come with a host of features. We feel choosing one text editor among these is greatly influenced by your preference: ...

When you're done editing, tap Save, and the file is saved back on Dropbox in its revised form. It's not a fancy app, but Droptext does what it is supposed to do -- bring Dropbox text editing to ...

Cruise along the learning curve for Emacs text editing with these basic commands. Emacs is a LISP interpreter that functions as a text editor in Linux, distributed by the Free Software Association ...