Text Editor

From openSUSE

In plain text you can see on the screen almost the same what is stored in the file, plus minimal set of control characters like a new line and tabulator. That makes plain text not so fancy, but you can read it on almost any computer in the world.

Linux configuration files in /etc directory are mostly plain text, so if you want to tweak your system to fit your needs you will need some plain text editor.

List of Text editors

GUI

• Kate is KDE default.
• KWrite is another KDE editor
• gedit is GNOME default.
• XEmacs is happy with X Window
• gvim is GUI for vi editor

Text terminal (console)

• vi is original UNIX and default there.
• nano is minimalistic editor.
• pico is actually older than nano.
• mcedit pretty comfortable editor, part of Midnight Commander file manager.
• Emacs

In the openSUSE are included all of above and more.