gedit

gedit is the GNOME text editor.

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

About gedit maintenance: gedit has been marked as unmaintained recently, now two new developers have proposed their help to become new maintainers. If you want to help, reach us on the IRC channel or the mailing list, thanks!

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

Online Help (for gedit and default gedit plugins)

Frequently Asked Questions

Keyboard Shortcuts

Download

Get release source tarballs

Binaries

WARNING: The latest official Windows binary is 3.20.1, and the latest official Mac binary is 3.2.1 from 2011, however, the latest source releases should work. If you can help with building binaries of newer releases for either platform, please mention it over IRC.

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

Plugins

Getting in Touch

IRC channel: the #gedit channel on irc.gnome.org
Mailing list
Reporting bugs

Development Resources

git clone git://git.gnome.org/gedit

Please note

gedit will aim for a 2.26 release.