Vim
Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.
Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax
highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename
completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.
This package contains a version of vim compiled with a rather
standard set of features. This package does not provide a GUI
version of Vim. See the other vim-* packages if you need more
(or less).
Gedit?
What is 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.
Go to the screenshots page to see gedit in action!
gedit is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Nano editor
Nano command line editor is a text editor that can be run from a command prompt via a telnet or ssh session. It allows you to create or edit HTML, text, scripts or practically any text file. Although it is not as easy as a GUI based editor you may be used to it does afford you the luxury of being able to create and edit your site files from almost any computer in the world.
nano is a small, free and friendly editor which aims to replace Pico,the default editor included in the non-free Pine package. Rather than just copying Pico’s look and feel, nano also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, such as “search and replace” and “go to line number”.
Gvim
Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. It can be used to edit all kinds of plain text. It is especially useful for editing programs.
There are a lot of enhancements above Vi: multi level undo, multi windows and buffers, syntax highlighting, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc.. See ":help vi_diff.txt" for a summary of the differences between Vim and Vi.
While running Vim a lot of help can be obtained from the on-line help system, with the ":help" command. See the ON-LINE HELP section below.
Most often Vim is started to edit a single file with the command
vim file
Eclipse
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Emacs
The Emacs Editor
The Emacs editor is a lot easier to use than vi. There are no silly modes to trip you up--when you want to enter text, you just position the cursor and type. Gee, what a great idea. It also has built-in help.
But while Emacs is a vast improvement over vi, you'll still have to remember quite a few commands to be productive, and you'll probably get a little lost. If vi is a relic of the sixties, Emacs sports the cutting-edge technology of the early eighties. If you get into a situation where Emacs seems to be stuck, or if you don't know what to do, press ctrl-G and things will return to normal. (The ctrl-G key cancels the current operation in Emacs.)
Let's try creating a file from scratch using Emacs. To start, enter this command:
