There's no need - someone already did it - its called "notepad" !
OK, you can use swing (javax.swing) to write the GUI, with a JTextArea embedded within a JScrollPane embedded within a JFrame. Then use java.io package to read and write your data in the JTextArea.
Those packages have tutorials and documentation at
i would also like to write an editor just for the fun of it. Does anyone know of any resources on the net specific to this type of project such as examples.
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