This is an alternate text editor which have features like syntax highlighting.

• To install goto terminal and type the following

                      sudo apt-get install geany
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It is an alternative to text editor.It have features like syntax highlighting

• To install go to terminal and type

                               sudo apt-get install scite
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• The source of vi/vim command is vim-tiny package which does not support syntax highlighting. Install vim:

             sudo apt-get install vim

Anjuta IDE

• Anjuta is an IDE used primarily for C/C++ development. Not as robust as other integrated development environments. However, it does feature some useful plugins that provide functionality that most other IDE's have.
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• Eclipse IDE is an alternative of Netbeans IDE. Actually, it is somewhat more popular among Linux users.
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• Netbeans is a platform independent IDE for Java. But it also supports C/C++, Ruby, portals and lots of other stuffs as plug-ins. At the point of writing, version 5.5.1 is the latest stable release and can be installed by:

          sudo apt-get install netbeans5.5
 
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