Back in May we took our first look at some free, open-source coding environments that trace their roots back to Vim and Unix. This time around we’ll introduce you to six more FOSS editors. There’s little in the way of shared lineage with this batch, though: Quanta Plus and Kate come out of the KDE project, while Bluefish is built on GNOME. The other editors discussed here have similarly diverse backgrounds.
Another differentiating feature, however, is that some of these tools are starting to resemble full-bore integrated development environments (IDEs). Read on to find out what we mean.