LINUX TEXT EDITOR 

 - XEDIT is a visual editor for VM/CMS using block mode IBM 3270 terminals.

-  It is much more line-oriented than modern PC and Unix editors. - - For example, it supports automatic line numbers, and many of the commands operate on blocks of lines. 

- One of the features is a command line which allows the user to type arbitrary editor commands.

- For example, continuous spell-checking as the user types is impossible.

- Xedit provides a window consisting of the following four areas  :

                1)     Commands Section

                2)    Message Window

                3)    Filename Display

                4)   Edit Window

- Nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.

- Nano is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

- Today,nano is part of the GNU Project.Nano, like Pico, is keyboard-oriented, controlled with control keys. For example, Control-O saves the current file. Control-W goes to the search menu. Nano puts a two-line "shortcut bar" at the bottom of the screen,For a complete list, Control-G gets the help screen.

- Nano can also use pointer devices, such as a mouse, to activate functions that are on the shortcut bar, as well as position the cursor.

- Jed is a small, fast (faster startup than bash) and powerful text editor.

- Editing functions: folding support; rectangular cut/paste; regular expression search/replace; incremental searches; search/replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers;.

- Tools: directory editor (dired); info (browse GNU info files); mail; rmail; ispell; shell mode; ...

- Special modes (syntax highlight, indention, compile) for Basic, C, C++, DCL, FORTRAN, IDL, Java, NROFF, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, SH. Modes for markup languages include HTML and (La)TeX (with AUC-TeX style editing and BibTeX)

-vi is the text editor supplied with all Linux distributions.

-It is a difficult editor to come to grips with initially, but once you do the rewards are vast. The editor is quite intuitive once you get the hang of it.

 - Useful for editing configuration files or creating plain text documents.

-Vi is often the default editor that pops up when you're ready to write an e-mail message or when you're posting a News message. 

-Vi is complicated and seems difficult to learn at first. 

-However, it is often the default for Unix and Linux systems.  

- Pico is a fairly simple text editor that provides straight-forward options and easy-to-use commands.

- Pico (Pine composer) is a text editor for Unix and Unix-based computer systems.

 - However, Pico is not very good when manipulating certain types of files such as making changes.

- Pico does not support working with several files simultaneously and cannot perform a find and replace across multiple files.

 It also cannot copy text from one file to another (though it is possible to read text into the editor from a file in its working directory).

 - Pico does support search and replace operations.

- JOE or Joe's Own Editor is a terminal-based text editor for Unix systems, available under the GPL.

 - It is designed to be easy to use.

- JOE is available for most major Linux distributions  and open-source BSD systems.

- JOE includes an integrated help system and a reminder of how to get help is always on the screen. 

  Mcedit 

- Internal file editor of GNU Midnight Commander.

- The internal file editor is a full-featured full screen editor.

- It can edit files up to 64 megabytes.

 - It is possible to edit binary files

- The features it presently supports are: block copy, move, delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; pull-down menus; file insertion; macro commands; regular expression search and replace.

- The editor is easy to use and can be used without learning.

Emacs

- The vast set of powerful commands themselves are difficult to remember.  

- The Emacs link includes basic information on Emacs for situations where you may encounter it or for those who use it on an occasional basic

- Emacs is a family of text editor, characterized by their extensibility.

 - One manual describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor."

  

- NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day.

- It provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text processors, and other tools.

- But at the same time can be used productively by just about anyone who needs to edit text.

- As of version 5.1, NEdit may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.