Five of the best Linux text editors

As part of a recent competition, I received about 200 feedbacks from geeks who selected their favorite Linux text editor.

Based on this data, the best Linux text editor isVi/Vim Editor.

Vim won the championship with an absolute advantage. If you are not familiar with any of the five best Linux text editors, read the rest of this article to learn more about those editors.

Fig: Favorite Linux Text Editor Voting Results1. Vim Editor

1. Vim Editor

Home: http://www.vim.org/

Author: Bram Moolenaar

Latest stable version: Vim 7.2

Written in C and Vim scripts

Operating System: cross-platform (Unix, Linux and Windows)

2. gEdit Editor

Gedit is the default text editor for GNOME desktop environments. This is a text editor compatible with UTF-8.

Home: http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/

Latest stable version: 2.26.2

Written in C and Python

Operating System: cross-platform

3. Nano Editor

Home: http://www.nano-editor.org/

Latest stable version: 2.0.9

4. gVim Editor

Home: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui.html

GVim is a graphical version of the famous Vim editor.

5. Emacs Editor

Home: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Current stable version: 22.3

The first version of Emacs was released in 1976.

Written in C and Emacs lisp

Operating System: cross-platform