Top and best text editors for Ubuntu Linux. Best text editor for Ubuntu programming use. If you don’t like the Ubuntu default text editor, replace it with any of the following text editors for Linux Ubuntu Systems.
Atom Text Editor
Atom is a powerful multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub. It is known for its powerful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. The Atom text editor supports macros, auto-completion and split screen.
Atom text editor has the following features:
- Cross-platform editing – Atom works across operating systems. You can use it on OS X, Windows, or Linux.
- Built-in package manager – Search for and install new packages or start creating your own—all from within Atom.
- Smart autocompletion – Atom helps you write code faster with a smart, flexible autocomplete.
- File system browser – Easily browse and open a single file, a whole project, or multiple projects in one window.
- Multiple panes – Split your Atom interface into multiple panes to compare and edit code across files.
- Find and replace – Find, preview, and replace text as you type in a file or across all your projects.
Run the command given below to install the latest Atom from WebUpd8 PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom
Pluma Text Editor
Pluma, based on Gedit text editor, is the default text editor of the MATE desktop environment. Pluma is a lightweight UTF-8 text editor and is forked from the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2. Pluma is part of MATE and uses the latest GTK+ and MATE libraries. Complete MATE integration is featured, with support for Drag and Drop (DnD) from Caja (the MATE file manager), the use of the MATE help system, the MATE Virtual File System and the MATE print framework. Pluma uses a Multiple Document Interface (MDI), which lets you edit more than one document at the same time.
Pluma supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your average text editor (plugins being the most notable of these). Pluma plugins may also be written in the python scripting language: to enable python support you need the pygtk and mate-python-desktop bindings.
The easiest way to install Pluma text editor is from Ubuntu Software Center. You can also install Pluma text editor from Terminal. Run the following commands in Terminal to install Pluma text editor.
gzip -cd mate-text-editor.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd mate-text-editor
./autogen.sh
make
make install
Sublime Text Editor
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. Sublime Text Editor allows for richer syntax highlighting and better performance. It also features a custom regex engine that significantly speeds up file loading and indexing.
Run the following command to install Sublime Text 3 (Build 3083) on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Linux Mint 17 and Ubuntu Derivatives :
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer
Brackets Text Editor
Brackets is an open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The two most powerful features that makes Brackets different from other web code editors are:
- Instead of cluttering up your coding environment with lots of panels and icons, the Quick Edit UI in Brackets puts context-specific code and tools inline.
- With Live Preview, Brackets works directly with your browser to push code edits instantly and jump back and forth between your real source code and the browser view.
Brackets Text Editor can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint, via the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/brackets
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install brackets
Notepadqq Text Editor
You can install Notepadqq for Ubuntu and Ubuntu based Linux derivatives such as Linux Mint, Elementary OS, PinguyOS. Follow the steps given below to install Notepadqq via PPA. Open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install notepadqq
Uninstall and Remove Notepadqq Text Editor
If you want to un-install or remove Notepadqq, run the following commands:
sudo apt-get remove notepadqq
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq