A brief introduction to 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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Once gedit launches, you can start writing right away. To save your text, just click the Save button in the gedit header bar.