Linux text editors
December 8th, 2010Free Linux text and code editors.
Gedit
Website: http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
gedit is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. gedit is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI).
gedit fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files. Its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation and printing and print preview support.
gedit is also extensible through its plugin system, which currently includes support for spell checking, comparing files, viewing CVS ChangeLogs, and adjusting indentation levels.
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Kate
Website: http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kate/
Kate is a multi-document, multi-view text editor for KDE. It features stuff like codefolding, syntaxhighlighting, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, an extensive plugin interface and some prelimentary scripting support.
With a built-in terminal, syntax highlighting, and tabbed sidebar, it performs as a lightweight but capable development environment. Kate’s many tools, plugins, and scripts make it highly customizable.
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LeafPad
Website: http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
Leafpad is a simple GTK+ based text editor, the user interface is similar to Notepad. It aims to be lighter than GEdit and KWrite, and to be as useful as them.
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Mousepad
Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/
Mousepad is a graphical text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad.
The initial reason for Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult for Leafpad for various reasons.
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Geany
Website: http://www.geany.org/
Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME – Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.
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Cream
Website: http://cream.sourceforge.net/
Cream‘s motto is “Cream makes the powerful Vim text editor easy!”. It brings a completely different look and feel to the VIM for those who are used to more intuitive editors while still preserving the more powerful features of VIM. It features pull-down menus, color themes, bookmarking, auto spellcheck and more. It leaves the default VIM untouched and is started by running ‘cream’.
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Emacs
Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/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:
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Vim
Website: http://www.vim.org/
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 often called a “programmer’s editor,” and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire . It’s not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
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nano
Website: http://www.nano-editor.org/
GNU nano is an easy-to-use, small, friendly text editor originally designed as a replacement for Pico, the ncurses-based editor from the non-free mailer package Pine (itself now available under the Apache License as Alpine).
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SciTE
Website: http://scintilla.org/SciTE.html
SciTE – GTK-based Programming with syntax highlighting support for many languages. Also supports folding sections, exporting highlighted text into colored HTML and RTF.
Lightweight GTK-based Programming Editor.
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Bluefish
Website: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
Bluefish is a GTK+ HTML editor for the experienced web designer. Its features include nice wizards for startup, tables and frames; a fully featured image insert dialog; thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image; and configurable HTML syntax highlighting.
For validation to work you need weblint and xmllint. For preview to work, you need a web browser that can view local files given to it on the command line.
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Winefish
Website: http://winefish.berlios.de/
Winefish is a GTK+ based LaTeX editor, which was forked from Bluefish. The main features are autotext, auto-completion, function references, syntax highlighting, customizable external tools and UTF-8 support.
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KWrite
Website: http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kwrite/
KWrite is the KDE 4 simple text editor. It uses the Kate editor component, so it supports powerful features such as flexible syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, and numerous other text tools.
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Bless
Website: http://home.gna.org/bless/
Bless is a binary (hex) editor, a program that enables you to edit files as a sequence of bytes written for the GNOME Desktop.
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Okteta
Website: http://utils.kde.org/projects/okteta/
Okteta is a simple editor for the raw data of files. This type of program is also called hexadecimal editor or binary editor. The data is displayed in the traditional view with two columns: one with the numeric values and one with the assigned characters. Editing can be done both in the value column and the character column. Besides the usual editing capabilities Okteta also brings a small set of tools, like a table listing decodings into common simple data types, a table listing all possible bytes with its character and value equivalents, a info view with a statistic and a filter tool. All modifications to the data loaded can be endlessly undone or redone.
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A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, or shortcut icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage.
Mozilla Firefox is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 and was the default from version 2.0 onwards.
Evolution provides integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop.
Evince is a document viewer for PDF, PostScript, djvu, tiff and dvi documents for the GNOME desktop environment. In developing the application the aim was to replace the multiple document GNOME viewers a single and simple application.
gedit is a free software, UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. It is mainly designed for editing program code, and structured text, such as markup languages. It is designed to have a clean, simple graphical user interface according to the philosophy of the GNOME project.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser.
Totem is a free software media player (audio and video) for the GNOME computer desktop environment which runs on Linux, Solaris, BSD and other Unix and Unix-like systems. It is officially included in GNOME starting from version 2.10 (released in March 2005), but de facto it was already included in most GNOME environments. The default backend is GStreamer framework but Totem can also use xine libraries. Totem is included as the default media player in many desktop Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Mandriva Linux and others.
Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only view images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, fullscreen, rotation, and transparent image background control.
Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. It is currently under active development.
File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment.
XChat, commonly written X-Chat or xchat, is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.
Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application. As part of the GNOME project, Epiphany is Free Software.
Emacs is a class of feature-rich text editors, usually characterised by their extensibility. Development began in the mid-70s and, as of 2008, is still active. Emacs text editors are most popular with technically proficient computer users and computer programmers. The most popular version of Emacs is GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU project, which is commonly referred to simply as “Emacs”.
Bug Buddy is the crash reporting tool used by the GNOME platform. When an application using the GNOME libraries crashes, Bug Buddy generates a stack trace using gdb and invites the user to submit the report to the GNOME bugzilla. The user can add comments and view the details of the crash report.
Gnome System Monitor is a GNOME process viewer and system monitor with a nice easy-to-use interface, It has some nice features, such as a tree view for process dependencies, icons for processes, the ability to hide processes that you don’t want to see, graphical time histories of CPU/memory/swap usage, the ability to kill/renice processes needing root access, as well as the standard features that you might expect from a process viewer.
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