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How to install GNU Emacs on Ubuntu – Extensible and Customizable Text editor

Post last modified:October 9, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

GNU Emacs is a free open source Emacs text editor from GNU Project founder Richard Stallman. It is available for GNU, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows. You can extent its feature its feature using a Turing complete programming language. The important features are syntax coloring, built-in documentation, full Unicode, customization using Emacs Lisp code, project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar and extensions support.Using this you can display files in multiple character sets, and has been able to simultaneously display most human languages. It is released under GPLv3+ licence.

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How to install FeatherPad text editor on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 14, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

FeatherPad is a free open source text editor for Linux, BSD, Haiku and MacOS. It is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. It is a light weight Qt based text editor developed by Pedram Pourang. FeatherPad comes with syntax highlighting, session management, side-pane mode, auto-saving, spell checking, drag and drop support, instant highlighting and automatic detection of text encoding. It has been the default text editor in Lubuntu, since Lubuntu 18.10.

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How to install Leafpad text editor on ubuntu – Gedit alternative for Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 14, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Leafpad is a free and open source lightweight Notepad text editor for linux and BSD systems. It is easy to use notepad or text editor with some basic features and very small in size. Some of the important features are codeset option, auto codeset detection, unlimited Undo and Redo option, auto indent, multi line indent, display line numbers, Drag and Drop support and Printing options. It is the default text editor for LXDE Desktop environment, including Lubuntu up to version 18.04 LTS.

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TED Notepad – free light-weight notepad alternative

Post last modified:September 13, 2019
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

TED Notepad is a free easy to use but feature rich text editor for Windows. It comes with simple UI without any toolbars, sidebars and fancy gadgets and 368 text-processing functions some advanced powerful features to save your time. Some of the important features are Word auto-completion, line auto-completion, duplicate portions of lines in coding and HTML/XML Tag generator.

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How to install Zim On Ubuntu – Zim Desktop Wiki graphical text editor

Post last modified:August 15, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Zim Desktop Wiki is a free open source graphical text editor for Linux, Windows and BSD. It comes with wiki like features and used to maintain a collection of wiki pages with linking of pages and text and images support.
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Zim Desktop Wiki graphical text editor

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How to install Suplemon Text Editor on Ubuntu – Best Console Text Editor for Linux

Post last modified:June 21, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Suplemon is a free open source powerful console text editor with multi cursor support for Linux system. It comes with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, Undo/Redo, Copy & Paste with multi line support. You can also open multiple files in tabs. And…

How to install Atom IDE on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 27, 2017
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Atom text editor is a open source text editor for Linux, Mac OS and Windows from GitHub. Atom IDE (IDE-Integrated Development Environment) is a new Atom package from GitHub and Facebook that provides some IDE like features to Atom text…

Install the latest Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu

Post last modified:May 30, 2017
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Sublime Text is proprietary cross-platform source text editor Windows, mac and Linux. You can download and try for free and currently no enforced time limit for the trial period. Some of the important features are Multiple Selections, Command Palette, Split Editing support, Instant Project Switch, Distraction Free Mode and you can customize Menus, Snippets, Key Bindings, Macros, Completions with JSON files. It provides Python based plugin API with Python console.
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How to install Micro Text Editor on Ubuntu

Post last modified:August 31, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Micro is a free, simple and easily configurable Terminal based Text editor for Linux, Windows and Mac. You don’t need any dependencies or external files to install it. It supports some common keybindings, splits and tabs, automatic linting and error…

How to install Atom Text Editor on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:September 14, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Atom is a free and open source text editor for Linux, Mac OS and Windows from GitHub. It comes with built-in package manager, auto completion, File system browser and multiple panes support.Atom is build with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js and runs on Electron framework. You can add new features and functionality to Atom via open source packages.You can change the theme of User Interface and syntax via freely available themes or you can create your own theme.

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