In this chapter, we discussed four text editing tools, divided into two types: GUI-based editors (Atom and Notepad++) and command-line editors (Vim and GNU nano), before showing how to use these tools together.
Atom is a powerful text editor that can be configured exactly how you want . By default, it has support for many different coding languages, including shell. It also comes with Git and GitHub integration. We also briefly discussed Notepad++. While not as powerful as Atom, it is also suitable for our purposes, as it is basically an enhanced Notepad with all the important features for shell scripting.
Vim and nano are the two most popular Linux command-line text editors. We have learned that while Vim is very powerful, it is also harder to learn than nano. However, learning how to properly use Vim will speed up many things you do on a Linux system and is...
