Free texteditors for Linux

I am an Ubuntu/Xubuntu user, and this list of free texteditors for Linux is based on my findings in that distribution.

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  Quanta Plus

  The webdevelopment editor for the K Desktop Environment.

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  gEdit

  The standard texteditors in Gnome. Extendable with plugins.

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  Bluefish

  Popular editor targeting programmers and webdesigners.

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  Vim

  “Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor ‘Vi’, with a more complete feature set”

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  Kate

  Texteditor for the K Desktop Environemnt, same project also provides KWrite.

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  Scribes

  Minimalistic, powerful, well designed texteditor. “Lets design a minimalist text editor that combines simplicity with power.”, as they state on the homepage.

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  Emacs

  GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. The learning curve is quite steep.

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  XEmacs

  XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. Related to Emacs.

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  Kompozer

  The free WYSIWYG editor for all platforms, but it also has coding capabilities.

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  SciTe

  SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.

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  jEdit

  A mature texteditor written in Java, so it runs on all major platforms.

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  Geany

  Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.

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  Eclipse

  Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform. Also runs on java. For you can use the version “PDT” (PHP Development Tools).