There's an excellent Mac-style text editor called NEdit. NEdit is
a GUI-style plain text editor that supports a thorough set of features
for programming and general purpose text editing. You can do Mac-style
drags to select text, and it supports the standard ctrl-x, ctrl-c,
ctrl-v and ctrl-z for cut, copy, paste and undo.
 
 NEdit's home page is at:
 
   http://fnpspa.fnal.gov:80/nirvana/nedit.html
 
From there, you can view screenshots and download pre-built, tested
executables for Silicon Graphics, Sun (Solaris & SunOS), HP, Digital
Unix, Ultrix, IBM AIX, Linux, and VMS systems.
 
But of course, you don't care about those platforms, you want the MkLinux
version, which is available in RPM format at the  MkArchive Text Index:
 
   http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/mklinux/mkarchive/text/index.html
 
Try it, you'll like it!
 
(also see question 6, "What's a good file manager for X11/MkLinux?")
 
-- submitted by sjohnson@datadungeon.com

NEdit is a great text editor, (I use it for writing code at work and at home).
One gotcha.  LinuxPPC 1999 ships with NEdit installed, but without the necessary Motif-compliant shared library.
Don't panic!  Just go to ftp.linuxppc.org and find the lesstif rpm.  Download it and install it using:
rpm --install lesstif...rpm
Here's the URL I downloaded, (this will break soon I'm sure, just an example):
ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org//linuxppc-1999/RedHat/RPMS/lesstif-current-1999.01.28-1.ppc.rpm

Once that is installed the libXm.so.1 will no longer be missing and NEdit will run just fine.