Linux users have more text editors, IDEs, and command-line tools than a programmer can shake a stick at. If you're looking for a good programming text editor, we recommend Kate. It's super easy to get ...

jEdit is a cross-platform text editor written in Java. The current stable version at time of this writing is 4.3.2, and it's available at http://jedit.org. Besides ...

Fresh: a feature-packed, IDE-like terminal editor with tabs, markdown preview, syntax highlighting, and Git. Micro: a simple, Nano-like editor with modern keybindings, mouse support, and built-in ...

Sublime Text is a proprietary, cross-platform text editor designed for people who spend huge amounts of time shuffling code around. A programmer's editor, Sublime Text is a third option to the ...

The KDE desktop environment’s advanced text editing program, which is called Kate, has a new input mode that is designed to mimic the functionality of the text-based Vi editor. The feature was ...

Most Linux users know vim as a text editor that descended from vi. It can also function as a tool for encrypting text files. In this post, we examine how this is done and how to reverse the process.

Here’s how you can quickly change the default system text editor in Ubuntu or Linux Mint. 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type in this command and then hit Enter: sudo update-alternatives –config editor ...

Seems like this should be a straightforward task, and indeed, I can find lots of posts asking the same thing, with the same answers, but the provided solution doesn't work. But if I right click on a ...