"Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in your browser. Write articles, press releases, to-do lists, etc. together with your friends, fellow students or colleagues, all working on the same document at the same time."

Regular Expression Library provides a searchable database of regular expressions. Users can add, edit, rate, and test regular expressions.

"JavE is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters.It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images."

"Q10 is a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind."

"JDarkRoom is a popular, simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand. If you are writing a speech, novel, essay, thesis or just need to be able to concentrate on your writing, then JDarkRoom may help you. "

"TED Notepad is a free light-weight notepad alternative."

"This web application allows creation of 16x16 icons (favicons) using simple drawing tools."

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. To download, install, and set up jEdit as quickly and painlessly as possible, go to the Quick Start page.