Many text editors are available on LC UNIX and Linux systems as well as desktop workstations. Most editors have a man page. Type man editor_name for usage information.

The following editors are available on most UNIX and/or Linux systems, including the LC clusters.

• sed—a stream editor for batch processing of files.
• vi—a visual editor; full screen; uses ed/ex line-mode commands for global file editing.
• ex—an extended line editor.
• vim /gvim—Vi IMproved, a text editor that is upward compatible to vi.
• emacs—GNU project Emacs editor.
• xemacs —a highly customizable text editor (Emacs: the next generation).
• nedit —an X-windows text editor.
• vscode —a free, lightweight, open source code editor developed by Microsoft.

Internal LLNL users can find some guidance on setting up some of these tools on the dev.llnl.gov site (requires on-site or VPN network connection). In particular, see the emacs and vscode pages.

For GUI-based editors you may want to consider using the LC-supported virtual desktop software VNC, particularly when remotely logging in on a connection with low bandwidth. More on VNC at LLNL can be found on LC's VNC page.