A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. Text editors are used to write programming code, change configuration files, take notes, and more.
For this feature, the selection focuses on alternative text editors which are definitely worth trying but may have been missed given that they receive less coverage in Linux publications, and are not included or installed by default in many Linux distributions.
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