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Text editors are mainly used by programmers and developers for manipulating plain text source code, editing configuration files or preparing documentation and even viewing error logs. Text editors is a piece of software which enables to create, modify and delete files that a programmer is using while creating website or mobile app. Text editors are scaled-down from the full functionality of an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), but also contains plugins to perform add-on works. Text editors are ideally fast and lightweight for editing and manipulating a small number of text files at a time, and they provide features like regular expression search and replace, syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and multiple tabs or window panes. In this article, we will discuss about top 7 all-round performing text editors which is highly supportive for programmers.
Text editors also integrate with source code management software and build automation software tools via plugins.
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Best Open Source Text Editors
VIM
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the editor ‘Vi’, with a more complete feature set. This editor is very useful for editing programs and other plain ASCII files. All commands are given with normal keyboard characters.
Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor,” and is so useful for programming that many consider it to be an entire Integrated Development Environment. However, this application is not only intended for programmers. Vim is highly regarded for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
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Emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor. Emacs is a highly advanced text editor, providing users with much more than simple insertion and deletion. This large, complex application does everything from editing text to functioning as a complete development environment.
It can control subprocesses, indent programs automatically, show two or more files at once, and edit formatted text. Emacs editing commands operate in terms of characters, words, lines, sentences, paragraphs, and pages, as well as expressions and comments in various programming languages.
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Neovim
Neovim is a free open source, powerful, extensible and usable code editor that provides Vim’s fundamental traditional features. It is an extension of Vim that comes with an in-built Linux terminal emulator with modern terminal features such as cursor styling, focus events, and bracketed paste. Importantly, it supports most Vim plugins.
The Neovim editor is available in Ubuntu's PPAs, and several other package managers, making it possible to install on a variety of Linux-based operating systems.
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Atom
Atom is an open source desktop application based on web technologies, specifically HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js integration. It runs on Electron, a framework for building cross platform apps using web technologies.
Atom consists of over 50 open source packages integrated around a minimal core. With Node.js support, and a full set of features, Atom is an excellent way to edit code. It’s easy to customize and style Atom. You can tweak the look and feel of your UI with CSS/Less and add major features with HTML and JavaScript. Atom is ideal if you like to tinker with your editor. Atom has more than 1 million active users.
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Brackets
Brackets is an open source code editor for web designers and front-end developers. This editor is built on top of web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It currently runs as a desktop application in a thin native shell. Brackets has great features for editing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code regardless of what framework/platform/browser you use.
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Geany
Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Scintilla. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, with only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal is to be as independent as possible from desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME. Consequently, Geany only requires the GTK2 toolkit, and the GTK2 runtime libraries.
Geany is one of the more fully-featured editors, as most Linux editors adopt a more minimalist philosophy. It is similar to Windows editors such as NoteTab or ConTEXT.
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Notepad++
Notepad++ is a powerful, feature-packed text editor that more or less has everything Notepad needs. It supports searches regular expressions, and supports syntax highlighting and folding, synchronized edits and views, and much more. Notepad++ is a source code editor which supports several programming languages under Windows environment. It's also a lightweight replacement of Notepad. The supported languages by Notepad++ are C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, RC file, makefile, NFO, doxygen, INI file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, Unix Shell Script, Fortran, NSIS and Flash action script.
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http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
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