Linux/Editoren

Applications

Console

Text editors that can be used in a command line interface environment

Editor	Beschreibung
nano	small, friendly text editor inspired by Pico
vim	A full-featured extensible editor with syntax highlighting
emacs	the extensible self-documenting text editor( high learning curve)
jed	editor for programmers (textmode version)
jupp/joe/joe-jupp	user friendly full screen text editor with keybindings/modes, hex editor, syntax highlighting, search/replace, regex, macros and status lines
ne	easy-to-use and powerful text editor
dte	small and easy to use console text editor
micro	easy and mouse-friendly console text editor
neovim	A full-featured extensible editor with syntax highlighting (Vim-clone with new features)
e3	very small text editor supporting many key bindings (Emacs, Vi, Pico, Nedit, Wordstar)

Graphical

Text editors that can be used in a graphical environment

Editor	Beschreibung
gedit	Default text editor of Gnome desktop environment. Aiming at simplicity by default, can be configured as full fledged integrated development environment through various plugins provided by gedit-plugins package.
geany	Advanced text editor with basic features of integrated development environment and has only few dependencies on other packages.
pyroom	Full screen text editor for distraction free writing, with configurable colour-schemes and keybindings.
scite	A GTK+ based programmers editor, uses Scintilla editing component.
kwrite	Default text editor of KDE Software compilation, provides syntax highlighting and ability to export documents to PDF, HTML, PostScript among other features.
kate	Acronym for KDE Advanced Text Editor, can be turned to full featured integrated development environment, providing extendable (via XML) syntax highlighting, session management and other features.
mousepad	Default editor of Xfce desktop environment, intended to be, simple, fast and easy to use.
GUI version of vim, provided by packages vim-gtk3, vim-gtk, vim-athena.
Emacs	The default Emacs package includes an interface for X11. emacs, emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid
jedit	very powerful/flexible (like emacs) and also easy to use (like notepad). Has many plugins for specialized needs.

How to set a default text editor

See also: DesktopDefaultSettings

For administrator

You can set a text editor as default with the update-alternatives command:

update-alternatives --set editor /path/to/the/chosen/editor

or

update-alternatives --config editor

and to see the list of possible paths:

update-alternatives --list editor

command instead of vim, emacs or nano for example.

For users

export EDITOR=emacs

1. https://wiki.debian.org/TextEditor
2. https://debiananwenderhandbuch.de/vi.html
3. https://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-edit.de.html