Text editor recommendations

[vellingiri]

Dear Raseel Bhagat,
          Try to use gedit , it is like same as notepad.

  Regards,
S.Vellingiri.

Raseel Bhagat wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:05 AM, <madanabhat27 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:madanabhat27 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>     I was wondering which is the text editor you'd recommend for me,
>     considering that I'm a TOTAL newbie to linux and having JUST
>     migrated from MS Windows Vista Business where I was using
>     notepad.. Some of my friends recommended vim and others
>     recommended emacs but I'm a bit confused as to which one to pick,
>     Yours,
>     KMB
>
>
> There is a HUGE choice of text editors in the Linux/OpenSource world.
>
> You can start with the likes of "gedit" or "kedit" which will remind 
> you of Notepad and Wordpad in Windows.
>
> But you will slowly realise that having a much more powerful editor 
> like a Vim(gVim) or Emacs will make your life peace.
>
> Thanks,
> Raseel. 

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