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gedit
gedit is a general-purpose text editor. It has been created in 1998, at the beginnings of GNOME.
The first goal of gedit is to be easy to use, with a simple interface by default. More advanced features are available by enabling plugins.
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Notable Features
- Files are opened in tabs
- Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
Syntax highlighting for lots of languages (Python, Shell, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, Markdown and many others)
- Configurable fonts and colors
- Print and print preview support
- Search and replace with support of regular expressions
- A side panel with an integrated file browser
- Spell-checking
- Word auto-completion
- Undo/Redo
- Auto indentation
- Text wrapping
- Line numbers
- Right margin
- Highlight current line
- Highlight matching brackets
- Editing files from remote locations
- Backup files
- A flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features
Installation
On Linux
You can install the gedit and gedit-plugins packages.
On macOS
macOS packages (a bit outdated)
A Homebrew formula for the latest version of gedit is available: brew install gedit
On Windows
The current way to install gedit on Microsoft Windows is with MSYS2.
Getting in Touch
Reporting bugs (see the list of common gedit bugs)
General communication:
IRC channel: the #gedit channel on irc.gnome.org
Discourse (Applications category, gedit tag)
Old mailing list (archived)
Gedit Technology
The gedit application is based on Gedit Technology.
See Also
Donations
You can fund the gedit project on Liberapay:
