Try FeatherPad as your Linux terminal text editor: 
There’s always room in my Activities menu for a utilitarian text editor. Of course, the exact meaning of “utilitarian” is different for each user, but for me, it means a text editor with all the features I need and not much else. So far, FeatherPad has proven in many ways to fit these requirements.
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