A Windows user at Computerworld tries Linux text editors, old and new. Linux buffs tend to scoff at one of the major reasons that Windows users like me haven’t switched yet: We don’t want to give up ...

Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.

Fresh is an easy-to-use and poweful text editor for the terminal. It takes many things we love about modern graphical editors ...

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’m experimenting with desktop Linux (SuSE), and am looking for a robust text/html editor to stand in for the NoteTab Pro I use on Windows. I’m seeking: * Good text manipulation – things like changing ...

In the vast landscape of Linux, the prowess of a user is often measured by their fluency in text editing. Two titans dominate this realm: Vim and Emacs. These editors are not merely tools; they are ...

News briefs for June 27, 2019. Nextcloud announces a new collaborative rich text editor called Nextcloud Text. Nextcloud Text is described as not "a replacement to a full office suite, but rather a ...

Whether you are writing code or creating editorial content, a noisy computing environment often can silence your productivity. The Pyroom Text Editor gives you a quiet environment where computing ...

In the article on Linux text editors [Linux Text Editors: Do Any Make the Grade?Computerworld.com, Aug. 17], Sharon Machlis didnt try jEdit, by far my favorite editor on any platform. Its one program ...

Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...