Recommended File Explorer & Text Editor for Debian

[C87]

I'm looking for a decent File Manager/Explorer for use on Linux Debian and also a Text Editor. On the Text Editor it would be helpful if it showed the column position as well as the line number. A File Explorer close to Windows Explorer would be good. It's a waste of time looking online because all I see are adverts.

Google was so good at one time, you could locate anything you wanted and find advice. All it is now is adverts about the best 5, or the best 10 supposedly
tested and then written about by people who clearly haven't a clue.

Any advice appreciated.

[mk-soft]

As an editor I like to use Geany. Various syntax highlighting is also supported.

sudo apt install geany

[AZJIO]

I use Geany. I even did highlighting for PureBasic and Grub2 for it (black theme). For it I made a description of how to set it up.
For the file manager I use Nemo. It can be installed separately, but it is better to install it complete with Cinnamon. Cinnamon is a shell similar to Windows and I also made setup instructions for it.
Nemo has a customizable context menu and you can add some tasks like compare 2 files or open in folder size analyzer.
Screenshot
Geany Video
Geany_conf.zip

[deeproot]

I also use Geany for most editing tasks. Occasionally for very simple plain text files I sometimes open them in FeatherPad.

For a couple of more specialised things I use others, for example for MarkDown files there is ReText and for HTML Bluefish is good.

Haven't really given much thought to File Managers but mostly use Thunar, which is the installed default on my normal Xfce systems. It does everything needed and is simple - there might be better options but I've also seen worse.