Text editors

There are many editors that can be used on the UPPMAX clusters:

Editor type	Features
Simple terminal editors	Used in terminal, easy to learn, limited features
Advanced terminal editors	Used in terminal, harder to learn, powerful features
Simple graphical editors	Graphical, needs X forwarding, easy to learn, limited features
Advanced graphical editors	Graphical, needs X forwarding, harder to learn, powerful features

Try them out and pick one favourite editor!

Tip

These shortcuts and commands are useful in the command line when something is stuck or a program is limiting you to do further work.

• Ctrl+C  interrupts a program or a command that is "stuck"
• Ctrl+D  quits some programs from the program environment in the terminal
• Ctrl+Z  pauses a program, can be continued in background (bg) or foreground (fg)

Simple terminal editors

• nano: used in terminal, easy to learn, limited features

Advanced terminal editors

Warning

• we suggest that you learn this tools before trying to work with them on UPPMAX
• If you start one of these editors you may have difficulties to exit!

• emacs
• vim

Simple graphical editors

These are simple graphical editors provided by UPPMAX:

Simple graphical editor	Description
Pluma	Default on Pelle
gedit	Default on Bianca
nedit	Another one :-)

Advanced graphical editors

gvim

• vim with a GUI, lots of features, very fast