[wcarey]

Truth be told, I've never tried to use a gtk-based editor without a mouse. Which would you recommend? I'll try it out.

[enriquto]

I'm not the most representative person for that... I can only suggest gvim ;)

Anyhow, just tried gedit and you can press "^S" to save the file and "^Q" to close the window, which is pretty much all that you need to start editing text files.