Text editors

There are many editors that can be used on the UPPMAX clusters:

Editor type	Features
Simple terminal editors	Used in terminal, easy to learn, limited features
Advanced terminal editors	Used in terminal, harder to learn, powerful features
Simple graphical editors	Graphical, needs X forwarding, easy to learn, limited features
Advanced graphical editors	Graphical, needs X forwarding, harder to learn, powerful features

Try them out and pick one favorite editor!

Tip

These commands are useful in the command line when something is stuck or a program is limiting you to do further work.

• ctrl-C interrupts a program or a command that is "stuck"
• ctrl-D quits some programs from the program environment in the terminal
• ctrl-Z pauses a program, can be continued in background (bg) or foreground (fg)

Simple terminal editors

• nano: used in terminal, easy to learn, limited features

Advanced terminal editors

Warning

• we suggest that you learn this tools before trying to work with them on UPPMAX
• If you start one of these editors you may have difficulties to exit!

• emacs
• vim

Simple graphical editors

To use a graphical editors you will need to:

• work on an UPPMAX cluster that allows SSH X forwarding
• login with SSH X forwarding enabled

See the SSH X forwarding page how to do so.

And what about Bianca?

Bianca is an UPPMAX cluster that does not allow X forwarding.

See the 'How to login to Bianca' page here for more details.

gedit

See gedit

Advanced graphical editors

gvim

• vim with a GUI, lots of features, very fast