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Mousepad vs Traditional Ex - Vi editor

A side-by-side look at Mousepad and Traditional Ex - Vi editor. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Mousepad

Mousepad

Office & Productivity

Mousepad is a simple, lightweight text editor for Linux desktop environments like GNOME. It has basic features like syntax highlighting, search and replace, configurable fonts and colors, etc.

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Traditional Ex - Vi editor

Traditional Ex - Vi editor

Development

The vi editor (short for visual editor) is a classic, ubiquitous text editor common to Unix-like systems. It has a modal, command-based interface, and supports extensive key bindings and scripting. It excels at text editing productivity once the user knows the commands.

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