Text Editor for Ubuntu

If you are looking for something like Notepad++ in Ubuntu , then i found the default gedit editor can be used in many cases. However the amount of functionality available in npp is not there in gedit.

But i love gedit also.

To enable many powerful functions of gedit

Go to

Edit > Preferences

There you see a set of magical things which we can do

View > Display line numbers while you are working

Colors > You can choose your theme

Plugins > This is area where you can choose set of plugins

I have chosen all and you can start using them also.

One of the good thing is syntax completion

lets see we are writing some shell script

Create one shell script.sh

when we want to write some standard code like for loop

Just write for and press TAB

for<Tab>

Editor would automatically complete the syntax.

You can see set of snippets available for various languages

The post below also share more details about power of Gedit

http://grigio.org/pimp_my_gedit_was_textmate_linux

Besides Gedit there are other powerful editors like gvim , kate , emacs , Play with them also :)