FocusWriter : The best application for writers on Ubuntu

FocusWriter is a lightweight application and a good text editor and free from distraction or exciting distraction, and can operate in full-screen mode, which is very comfortable in writing because it is simple and far from complex.

# Key benefits: 

- Support file formats: TXT, RTF, ODT and initial support for XML
- The timing and alerts
- Daily goals
- Custom attributes are fully
- Sound effect is similar to a typewriter (optional)
- Autosave and Messaging (optional)
- Live statistics directly (optional)
- Spell check (optional)
- Support for multiple documents
- Sessions
- Mobile Mode (optional)
- The availablity of more than 20 languages

# For the installation on Ubuntu 14.10/14.04/13.10/12.04 Open terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following three commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: gottcode/gcppa 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install focuswriter

     

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Install the beautiful text editor ATOM TEXT on Ubuntu

ATOM TEXT is a nice text editor, open-source developed by GitHub, which is currently in beta , Atom is based on the web techniques, and you can customize it easily and add new features to it, either by CSS or HTML and JavaScript ; It is smooth that allow you to use the APIs without the complexity .

# Other advantages :

- Browser for the system disk .
- Fast Explorer to open files quickly .
- The user interface is clean and beautiful.
- Indicators, and options
- Supports importing grammatical rules for TextMate and features.
- Along with more advantages .

# To install Atom on Ubuntu 14.04 \ 13.10 \ 12.04 ( Architecture 64-bit only) , open the terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom

* Note : The application may not work well on Ubuntu 13.10 ; for reporting problems via this link .

- For Archlinux users, the application is available in AUR.

     

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Install text editor "Sublime Text 3" on Ubuntu

Sublime Text is text editor application, which is characterized by simplicity and lightness and speed, and multi-platform.

Version 3 comes with some improvements in the application and improves the software add-ons (plug-ins).

- To install Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu 14.04 \ 13.10 \ 13.04 \ 12.10 \ 12.04 \ 10.04, open the terminal and run the following three commands :


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

     

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PyCharm : New open-source Editor application for Python

PyCharm Editor software is a new IDE from JetBrains , open-source , built specifically for Python programmers language.

It has a lot of wonderful features that improve productivity so much, watch the video above.

PyCharm is available in two versions : the first free open source ( a community ) , and the second is the professional which comes with some additional features for developers Web and supports : (Google App Engine, Flask, Django, web2py, CoffeeScript and other templating languages, Remote development, SQL and more)

For installation on Ubuntu ; download this package, and then unzip ( extract ) and then run the file pycharm.sh.

Note : that you 'll need to install the Java Oracle JRE (1.6 +).

Run the following commands , so the program will work.

sudo apt-get purge openjdk * && sudo add-apt-repository ppa: webupd8team/java && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

     

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