Recommended Editors for Beginners

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# 2.2. Recommended Editors for Beginners

- The following text editors are recommended for developers who are new to Linux development:

## Kate

- Kate (short for "KDE Advanced Text Editor") is a powerful programmer's editor for the KDE environment.
- It has menus, toolbars, a nice user-interface, syntax highlighting and operates in a Windows-like manner.
- If you have KDE installed, you could give it a try.

## gedit

- gedit is the default GNOME editor, which is also suitable to development.
- Has syntax highlighting, menus and toolbars, syntax highlighting and most other things developers need.
- GNOME is known to deviate from the MS-Windows conventions in some respects, which may prove to be an obstacle to people who convert to it (or to gedit specifically) from Windows.

## NEdit

- NEdit is a Powerful, desktop-neutral, programmer's editor.
- Emulates the Windows conventions precisely.
- Has a nice GUI, syntax highlighting, and many powerful features.
- Probably not installed by default and so will require an explicit installation using your distribution's package manager.

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