Linux All-In-One For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 6

Text Editors

IN THIS CHAPTER

Viewing the contents of text files

Manipulating text files in nano

Working with text files in gedit

Editing text with KWrite and Kate

Editing text using command-line tools

From text editors to word processors, Linux offers a wide variety of options for working with words. These days, with software packages trying to incorporate multiple features, it can be difficult to tell the difference between a text editor and a word processor. By text editor, I mean a tool that’s primarily used by programmers to create plain text files with no formatting. Word processors can do that, too, but their primary focus is on creating fancy documents that format text using different fonts and styles. In this chapter, I take a look at different ways to work with plain text files, using some simple text editors in both the graphical user interface (GUI) and non-GUI environments. In Book 2, Chapter 4, I take a look at office suites for those who would rather do word ...