One problem with Linux is there's so many editors to choose from. I assume you want to exclude the Java IDEs which rules out Eclipse and Netbeans. The basic edi

One problem with Linux is there's so many editors to choose from. I assume you want to exclude the Java IDEs which rules out Eclipse and Netbeans. The basic editors are Gedit and Kate. The native IDEs are Geany and KDevelop. Then there's the Scintilla-based editors/IDEs which are probably closer to what you're looking for: SciTE (text editor), or CodeLite (IDE).