The Text Trix™ editor is an open-source, cross-platform text editor whose goal is to make file and text navigation user-friendly for both coding and all-purpose editing.

If you're looking for a small community in which to get involved, you've come to the right place! Text Trix started out as a homegrown project and continues to focus on meeting niche needs through plugins as well as broader requests in the main codebase.

New as of 0.7.1beta2: View and edit source code with syntax highlighting. Wrap-indent ensures that you'll never have to scroll horizontally again!

Open multiple files in tabs, and collect similar files into tab groups. Flip between many files with tab history buttons or shortcuts.

Dance among multiple lines with Line Dance. Lines (and text) can be saved and returned to with a click.

Feeling on the cutting edge? Download the 0.9.0 pre-release! (v.0.9.0beta3 as of April 28, 2008)

Download Text Trix (v.0.7.0 as of January 1, 2007)

Check here to see if you have a compatible Java™ software (v.1.4+, freely downloadable). For more details, see "Which Java version do I need?"

If you enjoyed this text editor, please consider making a small donation. See here for more information.

Which Java version do I need? While Text Trix is designed for Java 1.4+ Java 6 is recommended. Only the JRE is needed, unless you are compiling from source. Linux users should upgrade to Java 5 Update 10 or Java 6 because of an icon bug. Fedora Core 6 comes with a new version of GCJ that runs Text Trix, but Java 6 is still recommended (for now) for a smoother experience.

How do I install it? Text Trix comes packaged in a Jar Ajar installer. No registry entries are altered. Jar Ajar will launch Text Trix and show you where to run it in the future. Having trouble finding your installed files on Vista? See here.

How can I write my own plug-in? See the plugin writing guide for how to write and package your own Text Trix plug-in.