Text Editor

From openSUSE

A text editor is software application used for editing plain text. It is distinguished from a word processor in that it does not support document formatting and other features used in desktop publishing.

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.