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Text Editing for Beginners.
There are many good reasons to use a text editor rather than some other tool.
- You will find that programming languages and web pages require pure text, without the stuff that word processors introduce.
- Learning a text editor *well* can make you much more productive
- Computers process a lot more text than numbers - it helps to know how to effectively and easily work with text.
Here are some simple to learn text editors, good for general purpose use:
On Windows:
Pretty much any of the CuaFamily are simple and work in the expected manner.
On Mac:
On Linux:
- GEdit (free, graphical) - works on GNome
- kate (free, graphical) - works on KDE
- MinEd (free, text-mode)
- Nano (free, text-mode)
- SetEdit (text mode only, works a lot like Turbo Pascal or MSDOS EDIT)...