Linux Text Editors

Vi / Vim Editor

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Home Page: http://www.vim.org/

Author: Bram Moolenaar

Written in: C and Vim script

Operating System: Cross-platform (Unix, Linux and Windows

Vim 7.3 is the latest stable version. It is highly recommended, many bugs have been fixed since 7.2 and earlier. If you have a problem with it (e.g., when it's too big for your system), you could try version 6.4 or 5.8 instead.

gedit

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
Currently it features:

• Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
• Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
• Undo/Redo
• Editing files from remote locations
• File reverting
• Print and print preview support
• Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
• Search and replace
• Go to specific line
• Auto indentation
• Text wrapping
• Line numbers
• Right margin
• Current line highlighting
• Bracket matching
• Backup files
• Configurable fonts and colors
• A complete online user manual

gedit features also a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to gedit itself. See the plugins page for more info on the existing plugins.

Home Page http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/

Nano editor

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and file name tab completion.

Latest Version 2.2.6

Home Page : http://www.nano-editor.org/

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML.

    Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.

    Full Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts.

    Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface.

    A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available separately.

The current stable release is 23.3.

Home Page :http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Obtaining