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Since vim and emacs run fine on OS X, do you mean GUI ones? I think Linux is the worst platform in terms of GUI experience.

why?

also kate is a very nice editor gui editor(mainly linux but probably runs on os x/windows -because of kde portability)

I also like kate alot.

That's just my experience that compared to Windows and especially OS X, GUI on Linux is typically ugly and unrefined.

It's understandable given the more fragmented, programmer-centric ecosystem.