My favourite code editor for my works is Emacs. But Emacs is slower to start compare to other lightweight text editors, such as Mousepad, Gedit, Featherpad, etc, because it involves a lot of plugins/packages.

I always need text editor for some quick and temporary notetaking. Atom is not a good solution to me, because it is too bloat, depends on Electron.

The following features are what I need

• Drag and drop to open file

As a software developer, a good text editor is always needed. I don’t like to use any IDE (Integrated Development Environment), but I think Eclipse is a very good IDE.

As a Linux user, at least need to know how to use a text-based editor: nano, vim, or emacs. vim and emacs are very powerful text editor. And learning to use these two text editors is really very troublesome. The main reason is there are too many commands or shortcuts need to memorize. But both of them has these good features: