Text Editors

Emacs

Emacs is a powerful, yet easy-to-learn GUI-based text editor. For more information, type man emacs or consult the Emacs tutorial and references under the Help menu.

Vi/Vim

Vi/Vim is a powerful text-based editor with a historically high learning curve. Vim differs from vi by including some level of color and syntax highlighting. For more information, type man vim, vi -h, or vim -h.

Pico

Pico is a text-based editor developed at the University of Washington. It is based off of the editor and interface of the email client pine. For more information, type man pico or pico -h.