gedit is a long-established text editor associated with the GNOME desktop. It combines a traditional graphical editing interface with enough programming-oriented functionality to handle source files and system configuration work comfortably.
Documents are presented in tabs, and the editor can work with local and remotely accessible files. Its search facilities extend beyond simple text matching to regular expressions, while configurable display options make it easy to tailor the editing area to different types of work.
gedit also has an extensible design. A collection of supplied plugins adds useful capabilities without forcing every user to keep them visible or enabled all the time.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Tabbed editing for multiple documents.
- Syntax highlighting for many programming and markup languages.
- Regular-expression search and replace.
- Unicode text editing.
- Remote file access through the desktop’s virtual file system.
- Automatic indentation and configurable text wrapping.
- Line numbers, right-margin display and current-line highlighting.
- Bracket matching.
- Configurable fonts and colour schemes.
- Spell checking and word completion.
- Automatic backups and document recovery facilities.
- Print preview and printing.
- Plugins for bookmarks, document statistics and sorting.
- Integrated file-browser plugin.
- Plugins for inserting dates and times, drawing whitespace and handling modelines.
- Undo and redo history.
Website: gedit-text-editor.org
Support:
Developer: gedit team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
gedit is written in C and Python. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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