An Introduction to Python Programming for Scientists and Engineers

This page provides operating system-specific advice on text editors, as mentioned in Section 3.2.4 of the textbook.

• Linux: vim, Emacs, and nedit. While vim and Emacs are powerful, they have a somewhat steep learning curve. If we are using the GNOME environment, we can also use gEdit [1].
• Mac OS X [2]: Brackets and BBEdit. We can also use the TextEdit editor, and all Mac OS X computers come with it installed in Applications, but if we are not careful it will turn our plain text into formatted text. Basically, any editor available for Linux is also available for Mac OS X.
• Windows: Notepad++. Notepad and WordPad can also work.

Notes

[1] http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/07/top-5-best-linux-text-editors/ (accessed June 21, 2017).

[2] https://beebom.com/best-text-editors-for-mac/ (accessed June 21, 2017).