Comments on: Top 5 Best Linux Text Editors

By: Electric Ego

Electric Ego — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:19:00 +0000

GEdit is nice one. Love its’ tabbed interface and syntax highlighting. For barebone, notepad like interface, I use mousepad.

By: Eloar

Eloar — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:48:03 +0000

There is no editors from KDE. I prefere Kate or kWrite, which are fast and simple, but powerful.

By: Ismael Casimpan

Ismael Casimpan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:40:28 +0000

Vi will actually be the clear winner as it’s always installed in whatever version of Linux or Unix based OS. If you don’t know vi, you will be paralyzed in critical situations where the OS is stripped down to the minimum with vi the only way to edit.

By: rakesh uv

rakesh uv — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:47:38 +0000

This is for newbies,
I like vim, personally i feel for newbies, they should stick to an editor(i preferred vim),learn it thoroughly, explore and exploit it , add plug ins and customize it for your needs, see if you could do almost most of the work done(this is a gradual process, need lot of patients, but worthy).

If any editor doesn’t allow you do the above, then that seems to be not a better editor.
if you have a lot to do with editor and have an hacking attitude use vim/emacs, they have these common features

->few key storkes
->interface to shell, very rich inbuilt commands for text editing
->wonderful plug ins and help over net,
->good performance, almost on UNIX machine you could at least find a vi.
->along with plunging like c vim, c tags, c scope, and interface with gdb makes it perfect for development.

but you should also get to know and get updated about other editors to see if your editor is not falling behind, if yes then try to get that features in yours,

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:58:14 +0000

@runlevel0, Looks like you are using multiple editors. Just playing around with all these editors can be lot of fun.

By: runlevel0

runlevel0 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:11:27 +0000

Kate opens my list,
I am also starting to use Geanny, alltough this is more a lightweight IDE, therefore quite convenient.

I have also been using Emacs for C development, but I am now trying to get into Perl and I find other editors more useful.

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:22:27 +0000

@NetSpider, @coral, @Michael, @Zeke Krahlin, @Binny V A, @hans berger, @Lakshmanan, @Rick, @Inkpad, @Arun Shivaram, @Joe Klemmer, Thanks for sharing your favorite editor with us. For those who are interested, following are the different editors mentioned in the previous comments that are not listed in the "top 5" of this article. FreeBSD ee Editor JEdit TEA Text Editor Kate / KWrite Editor Geany Editor NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System A free source code editor for Win32 and X Pico Text Editor Mousepad Editor

By: Joe Klemmer

Joe Klemmer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:32:31 +0000

It’s always difficult to cover text editors. There are almost as many editors are there are people who use them. Plus, the majority of techies tent to use more than one editor for different types of tasks. For example;

I use vim for the majority of my text editing but I also use pico/nano for email as (al)pine is The One. It would not be uncommon for me to use gedit, nedit or mousepad either.

By: Arun Shivaram

Arun Shivaram — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:02:39 +0000

My choices are Vim and Gedit

By: inkpad

inkpad — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:15:44 +0000

scite should have been in there somewhere