First, a little experiment. What are the first three applications you think of when someone mentions text editors?

If you can only answer Notepad, Notepad and Notepad, there's help for you yet.

Linux text editors are a different breed, more closely akin to the uber-editors that you can add to Windows (in fact, many Linux-based text editors have been ported to Windows and OS X). Sure, you can use them exactly the same way you use Notepad, if you want. But you can do so much more: programming in languages from C to XML, annotating documents with notes, and even collaborative editing.We find ourselves using text editors more with Linux than with Windows. Not only because they're more powerful, but because they are life savers when we have a configuration file we need to edit by hand.

If you've looked at Linux text editors at all, you've found there is a battle raging that's just as passionate as the GNOME or KDE battle.

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