The advantage of using a plain text editor for your writing is that you can focus on your piece instead of formatting. With plain text, you don't need to figure out italics or boldface.

Have you used the Linux terminal and wished there was a way you could go back to previous commands without retyping everything? Modern shells let you do exactly that with command-line editing.

The VI text editor is the most used and popular Linux text editor. You can get it in almost any Linux distribution. There are two modes, Insert and Command. Command mode is used to take the user ...

Nicholas Petreley compares the programming editors Jext and J to Jedit and offers a revised opinion of the best Java for Linux.

The Linux command line interface provides a wealth of tools for text processing, and one of the most powerful among them is the sed command. Sed, an abbreviation for Stream EDitor, is a versatile tool ...

Wrap-up Linux includes a number of ways for counting lines, words and characters in text and for making modifications that help count the words. Some are just a bit more complex than others.

It's easy to add a few lines of text to files on Linux, but there are tools that make it easier to add many lines.