Nedit, simple text file editor in Linux

If you find an alternative to vi (prehistoric) try nedit in Linux, it's the simplest way to edit your text file

"NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a text editor and source code editor for the X Window System. It has an interface similar to text editors on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, rather than to older UNIX editors like Emacs"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEdit