Alternative text editors

Emacs and Vi are really the heavyweights of text editors for Linux, but others are available. If using these two doesn't really turn you on, you might want to check out these alternatives

• pico - text editor that accompanies the pine email program

• mcedit (not related to the hamburger chain) - text editor associated with the Midnight Commander file manager

• joe - another popular editor, though may not be adequate for all tasks (like the aforementioned crontab editing)

We refer here to text editors that can be used in terminal mode. There are dozens of text editors for X-Window