gedit

gedit is an easy-to-use and general-purpose text editor. Its development started in 1998, at the beginnings of the GNOME project, with a good integration with that desktop environment.

You can use it to write simple notes and documents, or you can enable more advanced features that are useful for software development.

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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
List of plugins distributed with gedit
User manual

Installation

On Linux

You can install the gedit and gedit-plugins packages.

On macOS

A Homebrew formula is available: brew install gedit

On Windows

gedit is available on the Microsoft Store.

Getting in Touch

Reporting bugs (see the list of common gedit bugs)
Git repository

General communication:

Discourse (Applications category, gedit tag)
Old mailing list (archived)