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(21) Editors

• vi is the standard Unix text-mode (no X windows) editor. The main advantage of it is that it is always available on every system. It is powerful, but not the most intuitive to learn.

• nedit is a good X windows editor, available on most platforms. It is similar in style to MacOS and Windows editors, but has many advanced features too.

• Emacs is the most powerful editor, great for programmers. It is extendible, uses X windows if available, but runs in text mode if needed. Integrates well with other gnu tools (e.g. gdb). Xemacs is a more GUIfied version of Emacs. Pull down menus for the most commonly use functions make it easier to learn.

• Joe and pico are simpler editors (text mode only). Pico is the message composition editor used inside of the pine mail client, and it very simple to learn.

• vim is a vi-clone with many enhancements - sort of midway between emacs and vi. It also uses X windows for additional GUI features if available, but can run in text mode.

• Ex and ed are also editors, best avoided. They are line-mode editors (as opposed to full-screen text mode).

Note that these are editors, not word processors or text formatters.