text editors

salmon utilizes text editors to edit strings of text and JSON files during the uploading/tagging processes. There are several prominent text editors for Linux, each suitable for a different audience.

• Nano is probably the most well known editor, as it comes default for Ubuntu. I recommend against using Nano because it's not going to be efficient to trawl large metadata JSONs with, but that is fully up to you.
• Vim is another option, but has a learning curve. It is not intuitive to full beginners.
• Gedit is a GUI text editor, much like Notepad on Windows. It is generally a good choice if you do not want to edit text in the terminal.

You can set a text editor by modifying the EDITOR environment variable in your shell. To modify it for every shell you open, you can add the following line to your ~/.bashrc (or any other applicable shell rc file), replacing vim with the name of your editor:

export EDITOR=vim