In fedora you have two robust GUI text editors: gedit and Kate. gedit is hte default for Gnome desktop environment, and Kate is for KDE (On linux machines you can choose witch desktop environment you want to use).
Gnomes default text editor, it offers full range of features, including:
- Full support for internationalized text, including the important UTF-8
- Tabbed multi-document interface
- Syntax highlighting
- Plugins and a plugin manger
- A complete preference interface
In addition to these standard features, plugins can be added to give gedit the following functions
- Spell checker
- Insert date and time
- Word count
- Change case of selected text
- Indent or unident blocks of text
- Ascertain the difference between two documents or files
- Insert output from the command line
- Markup language tag list for common markup languages such as HTML, LaTeX, and more.
Tip
Most GUI applications are written for one desktop environment or another. They ofter follow a naming convention for consistency.
Kate
The KDE counterpart, KDE Advanced Text Editor.
Like gedit, Kate is a multi-view editor: it allows you to open and edit multiple documents in the same window. Kate offers a full range of other capabilities that make it a very powerful text editor
- Edit all kind of text files
- Powerful syntax highlighting engine is extensible via XML files
- Offers code folding capabilities for many programming languages
- Split window view
- Choose the encoding you want to use
- Boasts built-in terminal emulation.
- Sidebar display a list of open documents, a filesystem browser and more
- Handy plugin interface for third-party plugins
- Projekt handling capabilities
Kate is a bit more friendly, and offer greater flexibility for editing configuration files and writing shell scripts, than many other editors. The syntax highlighting are unsurpassed, as Kate makes available a full range of languages and styles. Kate provide such features as a open document listing
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