Editors

Several text editors are available on the HPC system. Most provide features such as syntax coloring.

Vim (Vi iMproved)

Vim is an updated version of the early Unix text editor vi (for “visual”). It provides many extensions over plain vi. On the HPC system, the vi command is equivalent to the vim command. Vim is primarily utilized through keyboard commands. Once learned, it is extremely efficient to use. Many tutorials can be found online such as https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorial.

Emacs

Emacs is another well-known Unix text editor. Like vim, it is largely operated through the keyboard. It can run a compiler and debugger so has some of the capabilities of an IDE. An introduction can be found here.

Nano

Nano is a simplified version of Emacs. It is easy to use and mostly self-explanatory. An introduction is available at its homepage.

Pluma

Pluma is a simple WYSIWYG text editor provided by the MATE desktop. It is a variant of gedit and we provide an alias to it, so either name should work. It is very similar to Notepad++ on Windows and can do syntax coloring.

IDEs

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides more features than a text editor. They are nearly all graphical in nature and so must be used through a graphics-capable frontend. On the HPC system we recommend using them via FastX.

Geany

Geany is a lightweight IDE. In some respects it is intermediate between a text editor such as pluma and a full-featured IDE. It is capable of managing building C/C++/Fortran programs, including through make. It provides syntax coloring for many languages other than the three compiled languages. It is accessed through a module:

module load geany

Module	Version	Module Load Command
geany	1.38	module load geany/1.38

Code Server

See here

Module	Version	Module Load Command
code-server	4.16.1	module load apptainer/1.2.2 code-server/4.16.1
code-server	4.16.1	module load code-server/4.16.1
code-server	4.92.2	module load code-server/4.92.2