14 Most Popular Text Editors for Linux

Apr 01, 2009, 23:01 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Dan Craciun)

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"Scribes Scribes is a simple text editor for GNOME with a simple and minimal interface, which provides syntax highlighting and detection and auto-completion of pair brackets in languages like C/C++, and it also provides various shortcuts for operating on a file. It is as simple and lightweight as a text editor with minimum programming features can get.

"SciTE Yet another text editor with a pretty icon theme and the usual functions for basic programming, SciTE also supports scripting in Lua. The default font is not a monospaced one, so you will have to use the Options -> Use Monospaced Font menu option."

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