GNOME Text Editor is the default text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. It’s a simple text editor that focuses on session management.
It works hard to keep track of changes and state even if you quit the application. You can come back to your work even if you’ve never saved it to a file.
It replaced gedit as GNOME’s default text editor.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- A simple editor focused on a solid default experience.
- Syntax highlighting for common programming languages.
- Search & Replace including support for PCRE2-based regular expressions.
- Inline spell checking.
- Document printing.
- Desktop integration including dark-mode and saving session state.
- Support for .editorconfig and modelines.
- Integrated support for Vim keybindings.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor
Support:
Developer: Christian Hergert, Christopher Davis, Günther Wagner, Lukáš Tyrychtr, Matthias Clasen, Michael Catanzaro, Nick Richards, scootergrisen, vanadiae
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
GNOME Text Editor is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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