Best code editors for Linux Ubuntu. Best text editors programming in Linux Ubuntu. Ubuntu text editors not just for editing plain text files, but for writing and editing codes.
Atom
Atom is a text editor that’s modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything. Atom text editor comes with cross-platform editing features, built-in package manager, smart autocompletion feature and file system browser. It also supports multiple panes and find and replace function.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom
Brackets
Brackets is an open-source code editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Brackets Code Editor has many powerful features such as inline editors, live preview and preprocessor support.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/brackets
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install brackets
Sublime Text
Sublime Text 3 for Ubuntu 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. It comes wit command palette feature which allows access to frequently used functionality, like sorting, changing the syntax and changing the indentation settings.
Sublime Text is highly customizable. Key Bindings, Menus, Snippets, Macros, Completions and more – just about everything in Sublime Text is customizable with simple JSON files.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer