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Search around for different Linux editors. Explain what they are and how they are different. You can also tell us how to get them.

There are a ton of Linux editors. A lot of them are free. There are also different kinds of editors. Some of the types are GUI (graphical user interface), console (text) editors, html editors, image editors and source code editors.

I am just going to concentrate on a GUI editor called Gedit and a text based editor called Pico. Graphical editors are like Windows based editors. Text based editors are like VI and VIM where you have to uses key strokes and key combinations to move around the screen.

Gedit is the default editor for GNOME. It is a free software that was designed for editing program code and structured text. It includes syntax highlighting for program code and text markup formats. You can edit multiple files. Gedit has numerous plugins that are included in the program. You can download Gedit from this link http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Text-Editing-Processing/Others .

Pico was developed by University of Washington. It has a two line display and at the bottom it shows the keystroke commands so you don’t have to learn the commands. It’s supposed to be a lot easier than VI. It has paragraph justification, cut and paste and spell checking. Pico is the editor of the Pine (now Alpine) email program. The documentation said that Pico can be downloaded from http://www.washington.edu/pine but, I could not find it. It looked like you have to subscribe or something. I did find a clone called GNU nano that you can download from this page http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Text-Editing-Processing/Others .