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 ...

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

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 ...

Espresso is a gorgeous Mac-only code editor that’s powerful and smooth, like the caffeinated beverage it’s named after. This ...

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.

The advantage of using a plain text editor for your writing is that you can focus on your piece instead of formatting. With plain text, you don't need to figure out italics or boldface.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Unlike many Linux text editors with steep learning curves, micro uses familiar keybindings like Ctrl+S to save and Ctrl+C/V to copy-paste, making it easy to use right from the start.