By default there are not many editors on Linux which are CSS friendly, for better syntax highlighting and cleaner look, you basically need a text editor which perform smoothly in your web development environment. Here are some of great CSS editors available for Linux;
* Quanta+ - It provide maximal user extensibility, best editor for efficient and natural use, You can effectively manage editor contents and visually create dialogs for your scripts.
* CSSED - Best editor in open source for auto completion, syntax highlighting and syntax validation that make CSS editing easy. CSSED also features MDI notebook based interface, quick CSS properties and values insertion, auto-completion and dialog-based insertion of CSS complex values.
* Gedit - It is general purpose text editor,the official text editor for GNOME. A simple and efficient editor with flexible plugin system for CSS/HTML editing, and does syntax highlighting.
* SciTE - Another great editor for development, SCIntilla based Text Editor runs on both Linux & Windows. Apart from the standard syntax highlighting and code folding features - it also understands error messages from compilers/interpreters.
* jEdit - jEdit is Written in Java works on Unix, Windows, Mac OS and others. Great editor for CSS and other languages.
* BlueFish - A powerful editor with many great features. Supports editing of PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS and so many others.
* Screem - A tool for web development environment which increase productivity, it provide quick access to commonly used features and provide versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment.
* Kate - Another web development editor on KDE with Sessions handling applications, it Supports most languages.
* Nvu - A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users, you can handle it even without technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
* Cream / Vim - Cream is a version of Vim which is easy-to-use configuration run on vim, It nicely highlights CSS syntax, HTML. It also provides a simpler learning step to vim.
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