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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“In many users’ eyes, a text editor should be lean and
mean, fast to start up and shut down, without fancy splash screens
or a graphical user interface. The choice of editor has long
stirred up strong emotions. For example, the debate about whether
vi or emacs (or another) is the best editor started decades before
Linux was even conceived.”

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