Editors

Command Line Editors

Here are some good tutorials to popular command line editors that can be used through a text console. All of these can be installed on Raspbian (if they are not already installed).

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-vi-editor.htm
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html
install: vi comes installed with Raspbian
It is not possible to insert spaces for indentation. Use Vim for code editing (see below).

vim

https://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/vim-how-to/
https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/#gs.=rImO8Q
http://www.openvim.com
install: sudo apt-get install vim
Configure for spaces instead of tabs and 4 space indentation. Put the following in ~/.vimrc

" tabstop: Width of tab character
" softtabstop: Fine tunes the amount of white space to be added
" shiftwidth Determines the amount of whitespace to add in normal mode
" expandtab: When on uses space instead of tabs
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab

emacs

http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/
http://ocean.stanford.edu/research/quick_emacs.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html
install: sudo apt-get install emacs
Configure for spaces instead of tabs and 4 space indentation. Put the followin in ~/.emacs

;; Only uses spaces, not tabs
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(setq tab-width 4)
(setq-default c-basic-offset 4)

http://ne.di.unimi.it
http://ne.di.unimi.it/docs/index.html
http://help.unc.edu/help/unix-ne-editor/
install: sudo apt-get install ne
You can configure the use of spaces instead and tabs and 4 space indentation using the menus.

micro

https://micro-editor.github.io/

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