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.
It is released under Free/Libre Open Source software licenses.
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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 from your distribution. Also available on Flathub.
On macOS
Packaged in Homebrew.
On Windows
Packaged in MSYS2.
Getting in Touch
- Reporting bugs
- Discourse (Applications category, gedit tag)
- Git repositories