Louhi includes the most commonly used text editors for editing code, makefiles, batch job submission scripts and other such files.

Beginners may find nano, a clone of pico, editor easy to use. It is handy for quick minor edits and also has some advanced functionality, such as search and replace. A similar in spirit editor available on Louhi is joe.

Some experienced users prefer emacs that allows a user to do practically everything within the editor window. Emacs can be customized to suit the user's needs but the customization requires stanzas which a casual user may find repellent.

For the rest a popular vi clone, vim, is available. Vim can be used either in the harsh vi compatible mode or with vim extensions making it a little bit more usable for mere mortals. Beginners might want to know that to exit from vi or vim is done with the :q! command.