any suggestions to choose cool programs to edit files?

[Ian Malone]

BB Cao wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm staring change to linux to work on editing things, such as, documents, presentations, figures,... I used to do those things on Windows machines. Of course, all my other jobs has been done on Linux and I am very pleased of that. As a starter, I found it is difficult to find apropriate programs. Your suggestions will be highly appreciated. I'm interested in doing the following:
> 
> 1, write Latex files,

While I typically use emacs, you may also want to look at
kile (it's either in extras or core).  I think Bluefish can
do syntax highlighting, but none of the useful "insert
figure" type operations.

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imalone