Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a universal text editor that's very useful for coding. It's kind of like notepad++, except it exists for essentially all OS types, and is much more customizable.
It also has support for various extensions, which can make it almost as good as an IDE for most languages.

Ubuntu Installation

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

• wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
• echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
• sudo apt update
• sudo apt install sublime-text

Settings

The following settings are a good default to get started. Simply copy into your settings window.

{
    "caret_style": "phase",
    "default_line_ending": "unix",
    "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
    "ignored_packages":
    [
    ],
    "line_padding_bottom": 2,
    "line_padding_top": 2,
    "save_on_focus_lost": true,
    "scroll_past_end": true,
    "shift_tab_unindent": true,
    "theme": "Default.sublime-theme",
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true
}