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

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

Warning: The latest official Windows binary is the version 3.20, and the latest official Mac binary is the version 3.2, however, the latest source releases should work. If you can help with building binaries of newer releases for either platform, please get in touch with us.

Plugins

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