Discussion on answer by Sumeet Deshmukh: What are the default text editors in different flavours of Ubuntu?

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A: What are the default text editors in different flavours of Ubuntu?

I think Answers by Muzaffar and Terrance serves your need. One thing to note is that you can install any of these text editors in any flavors. GUI Text Editors Gedit Gedit is certainly the most famous text editor in the Ubuntu world, it comes preinstalled and as default in Ubuntu Unity, Ubun...

Yoginee Pingale

you call that work in Progress? that's the most i've read about text editors, ever

Sumeet Deshmukh

Not a work in progress anymore

immibis

gksu only if you want to be able to edit files as root.

Sumeet Deshmukh

@immibis in earlier version of the answer I didn't write gksu at all. I think I should edit it to have that option as alternate

Graipher

Not so long ago, mentioning only VIM but not EMACS would have started a flame war...Although EMACS does not nicely fit into your GUI/CLI distinction since it can be run as both.

Sumeet Deshmukh

13:46

@Graipher is emacs default on any of the ubuntu flavors? I could edit the answer if it is

Graipher

Not that I know of. But you also don't say anything about vim in this regard. I think vim might be installed by default on vanilla Ubuntu, though.

terdon

I should downvote you for not mentioning emacs. Kids these days. . . :P

Sumeet Deshmukh

@terdon do people really do that? :p

terdon

By te way, vim (or at least vi) is installed by default on all Ubuntu (or any other Linux) flavor. Emacs isn't default anywhere no, but it is easily installable everywhere. And yes people do that; I never use anything else, for example. Well, except butterflies .

Sumeet Deshmukh

@terdon I added a tip from your comment to my answer, hope that's okay|| and that butterflies thing was hilarious

terdon

13:46

Of course it is! More than OK, any useful information from comments should ideally always be added to the answer.

Edheldil

Putting in how to start editing with vi/vim and not how to QUIT editing is very, very mean, sir! :-D

Sumeet Deshmukh

@Edheldil I linked the beginners guide cause I know what it feels like

Terrance

Install gvim and now you've got a gtk / gui editor that uses all the same commands as vi.

Sumeet Deshmukh

@Terrance I did not know that

Terrance

I was just mentioning it. We all learn something new all the time. Good answer btw! +1 =)

Sumeet Deshmukh

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@Terrance thanks alot

user48147

gksudo kate won't work much longer—Kate has disabled running as root. sudoedit works pretty well but can have problems with Kate when you have multiple files open (I think because Kate releases the lock on the file when you switch tabs.)

Yoginee Pingale

@user48147 strange, It worked for me

Sumeet Deshmukh

@user48147 I'd make necessary changes if you can link a credible source to this

user48147

@SumeetDeshmukh here you go: blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2017/02/editing-files-as-root

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