Text editors

The following text editors are available for use:

emacs -- Customizable full-screen editor.

vi -- Standard Unix full-screen editor.

pico -- user-friendly simple text editor.

nedit -- Powerful and user-friendly editor for X-windows.

gedit -- Powerful and user-friendly editor for X-windows.

kedit -- Powerful and user-friendly editor for X-windows.

Of these, emacs and vi are of interest for most people. Use pico if your needs are simple and you won't be doing much editing. Use nedit or gedit or kedit if you want a more capable editor and will only be working in X-windows mode.

The following are traditional old-fashioned Unix text editors, which are listed here mainly so you know what to avoid, except for sed, which is useful as a filter in shell commands and scripts.

ed -- Standard Unix line-oriented editor.

ex -- Full-screen editor, includes vi.

sed -- Standard Unix stream editor.