I think there's an issue with your statement about there being no vim for Windows. Namely, that it is available right on vim.org for anyone to download and install. There's an alternate source at https://bitbucket.org/Haroogan/vim-for-windows too. See also http://gvim.en.softonic.com/, portable gvim, and the download page for Cream which is vim plus some bonus niceties.

There are also several ways to run Emacs on Windows.

• http://emacsbinw64.sourceforge.net/
• https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
• http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl
• https://bitbucket.org/Haroogan/emacs-for-windows/
• http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/Emacs.shtml<?li>
• http://download.cnet.com/GNU-Emacs/3000-2247_4-205181.html
• XEmacs is Emacs but isn't GNU Emacs

Elvis is another vi clone available on the Mac, Windows, DOS, and OS/2 as well. jVi runs anywhere you have a JVM and NetBeans. vile has a Windows version.

I imagine Zee (simple editor), Zemacs (an Emacs), and Zi (a vi) would run on Windows if you squared away your Lua installation on that platform to support Zile.

As for other non-vi, non-emacs free (libre and gratis) text editors and IDEs, the granddaddy of them all appears to be Eclipse. There are lots of things out there, though, that run on Windows as well as other platforms.:

• jEdit runs on Java on Windows as well as it does on Java on other platforms.
• Atom is neat and appears to be gaining popularity. It can import TextMate grammars and themes in case you have any investment in TM.
• Bluefish runs on Windows and several other OSes.
• Komodo Edit is the libre and gratis editor component of the fuller-featured Komodo IDE.
• The KDE on Windows folks will let you install Kate and its prerequisites (or more of the KDE tools, too if you want) on Windows.
• fte runs on multiple platforms, including Windows.
• MinEd has a pre-packaged Windows version, too.
• JED comes ready to be configured for a number of popular key binding sets from other editors. Happily, it's reported to run on Windows without Cygwin. Sadly, I don't seem to be able to find a prebuilt package.

If you have Msys Git, MSys (another page on how install MSYS tools) or GNU tools for Windows there's a decent chance of getting your Linux/Unix console text editor of choice to run fine. With Cygwin there's a very good chance most Linux/Unix console text editors would work fine without much work.

There are non-free (not libre, not gratis) options like UltraEdit and TextPad.

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