Ever thought of using an IDE in Linux to type C? For pure C guys this is not a problem because they have the nice little VI or VIM. Yea it's very true that you can do a great lot of things with VI. The only problem for me was that I used to do a lot with Java using Eclipse. So suddenly when I wanted to use C for one of my assignments I found it very difficult to adapt with it.
Little bit of googling came up with this wonderful tool,
CDT. It's a plug-in for Eclipse and you can do a great lot of things with C with rich IDE features. Try this
tutorial to learn about the plug-in.