NEdit... totally graphical, very very configurable, open source www.nedit.org It even uses nice standard keys for doing copying and pasting, unlike both emacs and vi Brian Cluff ----- Original Message ----- Like I had previously stated to the PLUG, I am teaching myself programming. Currently I am using my favorite editor, Pico, to create my source code. Now Pico works great, but I was wondering if any of the code gnomes out there knew of any text editors that facilitated coding (I am doing java right now) better. I am not interested in any IDE's at the moment because I want my learning experience to be very raw, if that makes any sense. Thank you for taking the time to read my message.