There is no dearth of editors in Linux; vim, nedit, emacs, kate, joe to name a few.

The one which is my default editor is vim. Cut/copy/paste/search are the commands I use besides writing the text

There are so many advanced features of vim that I feel I need to sit and explore the features and then use those features at least for a month, only for keeping them in my head (my memory is too volatile).

kate (If I am not wrong it’s kwrite in new avatar) is a good visual editor where u can have file browser on left (window pane), the file opened on right and the shell open in the bottom. One can even open multiple files at the same time in the different tabs, then there is auto complete feature. Too good an editor!!

It’s available as part of kdebase rpm on Red Hat.

And the last which I use (in particular for two features) is, nedit . The first feature is column select, just keep ctrl key pressed and you can select a column. Another feature which I like (or love) is learning and repeating the key strokes.

Macro -> Learn Keystrokes

and start typing. Now say, Finish Learn and your nedit remembers it.

Now to repeat same keystrokes (which the editor learnt, you might have forgotten) – Ctr+k.

I use this particular feature when I have hundreds of lines and I have to manually remove say first five words and last two words from each line.

I am scared of emacs, whenever I open it I feel I am lost on an island inhabited by cannibals so I just try to get out of it ASAP . May be some day, I’ll make friends with some of the cannibals, if not all .

My future plan, know vim a little more, be comfortable (remember, i said my memory is volatile) and share the knowledge with everybody. Let’s see, when that happens.