4 Most popular open source code editors for Linux platforms

Looking for the best Code editor for Linux platforms? If you ask people who play Linux early, they will answer VI, Vim, Emacs, Nano, and so on. But I'm not going to talk about that today. I'll talk about some of the best open source code editors in the new era of sophisticated, beautiful, trendy, and powerful, feature-rich Linux platforms that will improve your programming experience.

The most fashionable open source code editor for Linux platforms

I use Ubuntu as my main desktop, so the installation instructions I provide are based on the Ubuntu release. But that doesn't mean that this list is the best text editor for Ubuntu, because this list is for any Linux distribution. Furthermore, the order in which the lists are introduced does not have a specific priority.

Brackets

Brackets is an open source code editor from Adobe. It focuses on the needs of Web designers, with built-in support for HTML, CSS, and Java Script. It's lightweight, but powerful, providing online editing and real-time previews. And, for you to experience brackets better, you can use many plugins that are available.

To install brackets on Ubuntu, as well as other Ubuntu-based distributions, such as Linux minit, you can use this unofficial PPA source:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/bracketssudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get Install brackets

For other Linux distributions, you can install it by downloading the source code or the corresponding Linux, OS x and Windows binaries.

• Download brackets source and binary files

Atom

Atom is another fashion open source editor for programmers. Atom, developed by GitHub, is known as the "21st Century cracked text editor". The Atom interface is very similar to the sublime text editor. Sublime text is a very popular but closed-source textual editor.

Atom has recently released the. Deb and. RPM packages, so it's easy to install on Debian and Fedora-based Linux versions. Of course, you can also get the source code for it.

• Download Atom. Deb
• Download Atom. rpm
• Get Atom Source Code

Lime Text

If you like sublime Text, but you are very disgusted with its closed source. Don't worry, we have an open source clone of Sublime text, called Lime text. It is based on go, HTML and QT constructs. Say it is a clone of sublime text, behind the reason is sublime Text2 still have many bugs, and sublime Text3 so far is still in beta version. Sublime text in the development process of whether the bug is fixed, outsiders do not know.

So, open source enthusiasts, you can happily through the following connection to get lime text source:

• Get Lime Text Source code

Light Table

Known as the "Next Generation Code Editor," Light Table is another trendy, feature-rich open source editor that is more like an IDE than just a text editor. Also, there are many extension methods that can improve their performance. Inline evaluation will be the reason you will love it. You must try it out so that you can appreciate its practicality.

• Get the source of light table

What is your choice?

On the Linux platform, we cannot confine ourselves to these four kinds of code editors. This list only describes some of the trendy editors that programmers can use. Of course, you also have many other options, such as notepad++ alternatives notepadqq or SciTE and so on. So, what do you like most about the four editors in this article?

via:http://itsfoss.com/best-modern-open-source-code-editors-for-linux/

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4 Most popular open source code editors for Linux platforms