Terminal and text editor

Terminal and text editor #

For this lab, you will need to know how to open a terminal and a text editor.

Terminal #

You can launch a terminal in multiple ways:

  • searching for applications,
  • clicking on the corresponding icon or desktop shortcut (if there is one),
  • with a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+t by default on Ubuntu).

Warning. Windows comes with two shells by default. Out of these two, we (highly) recommend the Windows PowerShell.

Text editor #

Make sure that you know how to open, modify and save a text file on your machine with a text editor. The following text editor should be installed by default:

  • on Windows: Notepad++
  • on macOS: TextEdit
  • on Linux (depending on your distribution and/or desktop environment): gedit, xed, mousepad, etc.

Other popular options include VSCode, emacs, vim or neovim, sublime text, geany, etc.

Your can open your text editor in multiple ways:

  • searching for applications,
  • clicking on the corresponding icon or desktop shortcut (if there is one),
  • from a terminal: for instance, on Windows:
    • type notepad to open Notepad++,
    • type notepad <path/to/my/file> to open a file with Notepad++.