The following minitable gives an overview of each editor (listed as either a default package or an optional package):
Utility/Package | What It Does |
Default Packages | |
vim | Allows editing of text files using the Vi IMproved (VIM) editor. See http://www.vim.org/ for additional details. |
Optional Packages | |
ctags etags | Creates a tag file containing identifiers based on the content of code files for use with a text editor. The tags help the editor provide amplifying information when displaying the file onscreen. The etags utility is an Emacs-specific version that produces more information for this particular editor. See http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ for additional details. |
emacs | Displays an extensible, customizable, real-time text editor generally used to modify code files, hence the original name Editing Macros, or Emacs (but you can use it for any other text-editing purpose as well). See https://emacswiki.org/ for additional details. |
emacs-auctex | Provides support for tau-epsilon-chi (TeX) files in the Emacs editor. See https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ for additional details. |
emacs-gnuplot | Provides gnuplot support for the Emacs editor. See https://mkmcc.github.io/software/gnuplot-mode.html for additional details. |