gedit

gedit is the GNOME text editor.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

Notable Features

• Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
• Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
• Undo/Redo
• Editing files from remote locations
• File reverting
• Print and print preview support
• Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
• Search and replace with support of regular expressions
• Go to specific line
• Auto indentation
• Text wrapping
• Line numbers
• Right margin
• Current line highlighting
• Bracket matching
• Backup files
• Configurable fonts and colors
• A complete online user manual
• A flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features

Screenshots

User documentation

• README.md file

• Online Help (for gedit and default gedit plugins)

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Keyboard Shortcuts

Download

• Get release source tarballs

Binaries

• Windows 64-bit binaries

• Windows 32-bit binaries

• MacOS packages

If you're using MacOS, then an unofficial Homebrew formula for the latest version of gedit is available: brew install gedit

Plugins

• Lists of gedit plugins

• How to write a gedit plugin

Getting in Touch

• IRC channel: the #gedit channel on irc.gnome.org

• Mailing list

• Reporting bugs

Development Resources

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit.git

• gedit on GitLab

• How to contribute to gedit (to understand the code, conventions, …)

• New roadmap

• Old roadmap

• Development notes

• Miscellaneous TODOs

How-to Documents

• Using External Tools

• Using Snippets

See Also

• External Tools Plugin Command Collection

• A Collection of Code Snippets for the Snippets Plugin

• Syntax Highlighter and Language Bundles

• List of extra style schemes

• List of extra syntax highlighting definition files

CategoryTextEditor