12 Best Open Source Text Editors for Linux Text editors can be used for writing code, editing text files such as configuration files, creating user instruction files and many more. In Linux, text editor are of two kinds that is graphical user interface (GUI) and command line text editors (console or terminal). Don’t Miss: In this article I am taking a look at some of the best 12 open source commonly used text editors in Linux on both server and desktops. Vi/Vim Editor Vim is a powerful command line based text editor that has enhanced the functionalities of the old Unix Vi text editor. It is one the most popular and widely used text editors among System Administrators and programmers that is why many users often refer to it as a programmer’s editor. It enables syntax highlighting when writing code or editing configuration files.

1. Best Open Source Text Editors

Best Open Source Text Editors

If you want to see our complete series on vi(m), please refer the links below: • • •. Nano Editor You can check our complete guide for editing files with Nano editor at: • 4. GNU Emacs This is a highly extensible and customizable text editor that also offers interpretation of the Lisp programming language at its core. Different extensions can be added to support text editing functionalities. Emacs has the following features: • User documentation and tutorials • Syntax highlighting using colors even for plain text. • Unicode supports many natural languages. • Various extension including mail and news, debugger interface, calender and many more.

Mac default text editor for programmind. /Users/peter, /Users/paul in Mac OS; or /home/peter, /home/paul in Ubuntu.

Emacs Editor 5. Kate/Kwrite Kate is a feature rich and highly pluggable text editor that comes with KDesktop Environment (KDE). The Kate project aims at development of two main products that is: KatePart and Kate. KatePart is an advanced text editor component included in many KDE applications which may require users to edit text whereas Kate is an multiple document interface(MDI) text editor. The following are some of its general features: • Extensible through scripting • Encoding support such as unicode mode • Text rendering in bi-directional mode • Line ending support with auto detection functionalities Also remote file editing and many other features including advanced editor features, applications features, programming features, text highlighting features, backup features and search and replace features. Sublime text not in open with for mac.

Brackets is a modern open source editor with several extremely interesting features. For example, when used in combination with Adobe Creative Cloud Extract (=preview) it can read design data such as colors, types, histories etc. Directly from a PSD file and transform it into minimalistic, correct CSS code.