2.2. Recommended Editors for Beginners
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The following text editors are recommended for developers who are new to Linux development:
Kate
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Kate (short for "KDE Advanced Text Editor") is a
powerful programmer's editor for the KDE environment.
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It has menus, toolbars, a nice user-interface, syntax highlighting and operates in a
Windows-like manner.
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If you have KDE installed, you could give it a try.
gedit
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gedit is the default GNOME editor,
which is also suitable to development.
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Has syntax highlighting, menus and toolbars, syntax highlighting and most other things
developers need.
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GNOME is known to deviate from the MS-Windows conventions in some respects, which may
prove to be an obstacle to people who convert to it (or to gedit specifically) from
Windows.
NEdit
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NEdit is a Powerful, desktop-neutral, programmer's
editor.
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Emulates the Windows conventions precisely.
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Has a nice GUI, syntax highlighting, and many powerful features.
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Probably not installed by default and so will require an explicit installation using
your distribution's package manager.