Many text editors are available on LC UNIX and Linux systems as well as desktop workstations. Most editors have a man page. Type man editor_name for usage information.

The following editors are available on most UNIX and/or Linux systems.

• sed—a stream editor for batch processing of files.
• vi—a visual editor; full screen; uses ed/ex line-mode commands for global file editing.
• ex—an extended line editor.
• vim/gvim—Vi IMproved, a text editor that is upward compatible to vi.
• emacs—GNU project Emacs editor.
• xemacs—a highly customizable text editor (Emacs: the next generation).
• nedit—an X-windows text editor.
• kwrite—editor bundled with the KDE (Linux) desktop environment.
• atom—a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core.

For GUI-based editors you may want to consider using VNC, particularly when remotely logging in on a connection with low bandwidth. More on VNC at LLNL can be found on LC's VNC page.