any suggestions to choose cool programs to edit files?

[Leon]

Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> imalone

Winefish is the latex editor for gnome:-)

-- 
Leon