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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writers are fiercely loyal to the tools they use. For years, I swore by the ultra-slimline markdown editor iA Writer. Sadly, this hugely popular app is a macOS exclusive, and when I ditched my MacBook ...

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.

I've recently looked for a programmer editor that I can use to code in C(++) which works on Linux using its native compiler (the one from GCC, for instance) and on Windows using Visual Studio compiler ...

The new Simplenote app for Windows and Linux looks a lot like the Mac version that launched almost three years ago. It features a simple, white design without a lot of fluff. Which doesn’t mean the ...

Pick a different text editor for Linux Mint or Ubuntu 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 ...

Nano/pico pretty much scratches all the itches for a basic user interface for text. It's not like I need to create a functional operating system within EMACS and who the heck remembers to ESC ESC :wq!