Text editor recommendations

[Fred Roller]

> *As a newbie*, I'd say a simple GUI text editor like Gedit (if you use 
> Gnome) or Kate (if you use KDE) would suffice for most things. On
> the other hand, time spent on learning vim is time well spent.


gedit/kate would be the best start then the OP could settle in to the 
new OS and what it has to offer.  Time enough to explore as they go.

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Fred
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