Vim (http://www.vim.org) is, of course, still a mainstay for text file editing. It has a very long history in the Unix world, and it's a very lightweight command-line text editor. Vim is just about as raw a text editor as you can get. It can be used as a lightning fast and efficient IDE if you have the memory and patience to learn the myriad keyboard commands. My advice is to start out with a few basic commands, and make an effort to pick up a few more each time you use Vim.
You can pimp your Vim and make it better suited for editing Puppet manifests. Let's take a look at that, assuming you've just grabbed a fresh Vim installation, and you have Git installed.
Move to your home directory and clone the given repository with the following ...
