Atom and Brackets, especially Atom, are beautiful. I've stopped using standard text editors like Kate and KWrite and switched to Atom and Brackets for creating

Atom and Brackets, especially Atom, are beautiful. I've stopped using standard text editors like Kate and KWrite and switched to Atom and Brackets for creating simple text files. Who doesn't like writing in Markdown? And because I don't think it makes sense to ask people to learn how to use a text editor before they can edit a simple file, I always recommend and use Nano when I need to edit or create from a shell terminal.