However it is just a simple text editor so it does not offer many features like other Linux text editors.

Open text editor in linux terminal. Ctrl x to quit and then press s to confirm save. The default text editor is TextEdit. You can open a text file in there by using open-a.

To open a specific file. The Pico editor is a terminal-based Linux text editor. It supports more than 30 programing language and multiple panes.

In Ubuntu exist a command called xdg-open that opens a file or URL in the users preferred application so you can open several types of files with the default program pre-defined. Text Editor gedit is the default GUI text editor in the Ubuntu operating system. It has built-in support for pine news and email client.

It supports most file types and vim editor is also known as a programmers editor. Classic Command Line Text Editors. Not just for System Administrators but for the average user as well.

To debug cron issues you can emulate a cron-like environment in a terminal. Type nano to edit the file you want to edit. To install vim on Debian based Linux like ubuntu run the command.

The terminal window will wait for gedit to close before it returns you to the command prompt. Xdg-open hello_wordtiff Open the file using the default image visualizer. Vim is an advanced and highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.