Can Linux text editors stand up to comparisons with beloved Windows apps? Computerworld's online managing editor dives into the fray and finds a handful of programs decent enough to convince users ...

At its heart, jEdit is a just a text editor, although it's a text editor with a lot of options. You can make these options global or apply them on a per-buffer basis. You can reach the options via the ...

Linux users have more text editors, IDEs, and command-line tools than a programmer can shake a stick at. If you're looking for a good programming text editor, we recommend Kate.

Sublime Text is a proprietary, cross-platform text editor designed for people who spend huge amounts of time shuffling code around. A programmer's editor, Sublime Text is a third option to the ...

Learn the basics for using Emacs and vi text editors for your e-mail, Web design and programming needs in Linux.

Windows/Linux: We’ve long been fans of Simplenote, but Windows and Linux users have had to use third-party editors to access their notes. Now, Simplenote’s native app is finally available for ...

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.

Pick a different text editor for Linux Mint or Ubuntu Here’s how you can quickly change the default system text editor in Ubuntu or Linux Mint. 1. Open a terminal window. 2.

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 ...