Easy to use, lightweight text editor; no complex keybindings to remember.

(Joe's Own Editor) is a compact text editor written in C; a detailed list of features and missing ones is explicitly reported in the website; this editor is mentioned in several web sources for its capability in handling large files.

A text editor with a drop-down menu facility that make it especially user-friendly.

One of the godfathers of text editors; free long-standing software project; tons of extensions and funcionalities; the biggest drawback (my taste): it needs E-Lisp for being programmed.

Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.

Word processors are great, but they’re also pretty simple. They’re fine for writing letters or essays, but they’re not for complex documents – they’re just not designed for it. LaTeX, a document preparation system used by scientists and mathematicians, aims to get around the problem.

Rather than relying on software to format your document, LaTeX markup is used, giving you the opportunity to introduce elements like complicated mathematical equations. You could do this in a plain, old text editor like Vim or, if you’d prefer to see your LaTeX formatting appear as you write, a LaTeX editor.

Here are five of the best LaTeX editors you could use if you’re a Linux user.

Why another editor?
With so many great markdown editors out there, the question remains why another one is necessary. I am a political theorist and therefore need to read a huge amount of texts as well as keep notes for each and every one. This makes it necessary that I keep all of my files as open as possible and also searchable.

Additionally, I tend to write my papers using as little markup and styles as possible. Word processors as Microsoft Word or LibreOffice are simply not made for easy and focused writing. That's why there is Markdown. It keeps apart your content and your final styling of a text. This way you are not distracted by all the neat formatting options word processors offer you and focus only on your content. Styling is applied in a second step.

Zettlr solves all of these problems in one single app. With Zettlr I can write in one file, simultaneously copy text from other files and finally export my papers using the powerful open source platforms pandoc and LaTeX. Simply put: Zettlr is the get-together of the best features of existing solutions and a supercharged approach to your own workflow!

Heavily inspired by Vi/Vim. Amp aims to take the core interaction model of Vim, simplify it, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern text editor.

Suplemon is an open source, modern, powerful, intuitive and feature-rich command-line text editor with multi cursor support; it replicates Sublime Text like functionality in the terminal with the use of Nano.

Console (CLI) text editor with multi cursor support.

Suplemon replicates Sublime Text like functionality in the terminal.

Features

• Proper multi cursor editing, as in Sublime Text
• Syntax highlighting with Text Mate themes
• Autocomplete (based on words in the files that are open)
• Easy Undo/Redo (Ctrl + Z, Ctrl + Y)
• Copy & Paste, with multi line support (and native clipboard support on X11 / Unix and Mac OS)
• Multiple files in tabs
• Powerful Go To feature for jumping to files and lines
• Find, Find next and Find all (Ctrl + F, Ctrl + D, Ctrl + A)
• Custom keyboard shortcuts (and easy-to-use defaults)
• Mouse support
• Restores cursor and scroll positions when reopenning files
• Extensions (easy to write your own)
• Lots more...

Suplemon is a CLI text editor that offers modern features like multi cursor support, keeping the simplicity and ease-to-use of a console text editor.

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. Text editors are used to write programming code, change configuration files, take notes, and more.

The official website of Kakoune, a selection-first modal code editor.

A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

The xi editor project is an attempt to build a high quality text editor, using modern software engineering techniques. It is initially built for Mac OS X, using Cocoa for the user interface. There are also frontends for other operating systems available from third-party developers.

Goals include:

1. Incredibly high performance. All editing operations should commit and paint in under 16ms. The editor should never make you wait for anything.

2. Beauty. The editor should fit well on a modern desktop, and not look like a throwback from the ’80s or ’90s. Text drawing should be done with the best technology available (Core Text on Mac, DirectWrite on Windows, etc.), and support Unicode fully.

3. Reliability. Crashing, hanging, or losing work should never happen.

4. Developer friendliness. It should be easy to customize xi editor, whether by adding plug-ins or hacking on the core.

Once you get over the learning curve, there is nothing like LaTex. Here are the best LaTex editors for Linux and other systems.

Micro is a modern, easy-to-use cross-platform terminal-based text editor for Linux, that designed to utilize the full capabilities of modern Linux terminals.

In this article, we shall review some of the best Markdown editors you can install and use on your Linux desktop.

Official site of MyNotex, free note-taking, document file and activity manager for GNU/Linux.

Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text. This may be formatted: it is possible to change the font name, size and color of a selected text and of its background, and also to set bold, italic, underline and strike-through; the text may have pictures within it. The software can manage paragraph alignment, bullets, numbered and alphabetic lists with automatic indentation. Each note may have any number of attachments (files of every kind), and has also a spreadsheet-like grid to manage a list of activities which is quite similar to the one used in many software of project management. The various activities of one or all the notes of a file may be shown in a diary view and possibly exported in iCal format. A single file of MyNotex contains various notes filed in different subjects.

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control.