For simple stuff I recommend Gedit<\/strong> that comes with GNOME-based Linux distros.\u00a0 If you’re running a K-Desktop Environment (KDE) then Kate<\/strong> is really good.\u00a0\u00a0 Gedit works well for writing quick text snippets or copying text from websites to use later on.<\/p>\n For text writing in general, I like Pyroom<\/a><\/strong> which came pre-installed with Crunchbang Linux<\/strong> 9.04 and I happen to be writing this very blog post using Pyroom.\u00a0 Pyroom reminds me of a typewriter interface\u2014everything else on the screen (except for your text and a light border) is invisible.\u00a0 Nothing to distract your eyes. \u00a0You only see the words that you type (non-formatted) on your (virtual) page.\u00a0 Each time you hit “return”, your work just scrolls upward.\u00a0 And it can “auto-save<\/strong>” your work at intervals that you set in preferences.<\/p>\n If you’re going to write scripts in various programming languages, then you’ll need a decent IDE-style code editor.\u00a0 This comes in handy if you’re building a website, because you can create a “project” file that will group together the text-based files related to your website.<\/p>\n For this type of work, I use Geany<\/a><\/strong>, but have recently installed Aptana Studio<\/strong><\/a> to try it out.<\/p>\n The benefit of an IDE-style editor is that it can color the syntax so your commands don’t look like a big vat of text.\u00a0 This makes reading, writing, documenting (or “in-code comments”) and troubleshooting your work much much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Linux Gui Applications to write and edit text For simple stuff I recommend Gedit that comes with GNOME-based Linux distros.\u00a0 If you’re running a K-Desktop Environment (KDE) then Kate is really good.\u00a0\u00a0 Gedit works well for writing quick text snippets or copying text from websites to use later on. For text writing in general, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,24],"tags":[30,43,29,21],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-apps","category-use-linux","category-freedom-choice","tag-apps","tag-crunchbang","tag-freedom","tag-install"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}