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4 Linux terminal text editors I use instead of nano

Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.
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Fresh Adds an Easy-to-use and Powerful Text Editor to the Linux Terminal

Fresh is an easy-to-use and poweful text editor for the terminal. It takes many things we love about modern graphical editors ...
Linux Journal

Sublime Text: One Editor to Rule Them All?

Sublime Text is a proprietary, cross-platform text editor designed for people who spend huge amounts of time shuffling code around. A programmer's editor, Sublime Text is a third option to the ...
Network World

Linux text editors: Do any make the grade?

A Windows user at Computerworld tries Linux text editors, old and new. Linux buffs tend to scoff at one of the major reasons that Windows users like me haven’t switched yet: We don’t want to give up ...

How to edit text files directly from Command Prompt and PowerShell

You can now use Microsoft Edit to create and edit text files directly in Command Prompt or PowerShell without switching apps, ...
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Using the vim editor in Linux to quickly encrypt and decrypt files

Most Linux users know vim as a text editor that descended from vi. It can also function as a tool for encrypting text files. In this post, we examine how this is done and how to reverse the process.