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official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment
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Description:

Gedit is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. gedit is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI).

gedit fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files. Its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation and printing and print preview support.

gedit is also extensible through its plugin system, which currently includes support for spell checking, comparing files, viewing CVS ChangeLogs, and adjusting indentation levels.

User reviews:

	Score	Comment
ReleaseRoger 10 months ago	4	Simply my favourite editor. I've written a ton of code using it exclusively - syntax highlighting in all the major languages. Why use an IDE?
V_V_V 1 year ago	5	One of the best text editors
BazyTrue 1 year ago	4	Lubię to.
xgoran 1 year ago	5	The best
aanand_ub 1 year ago	2	Geany is richer, more customizable and equally light weight.
zboraon 1 year ago	5	what else is there?
jukswede 2 years ago	5	amazing
Hammer459 2 years ago	2	Why invent new editors all the time. There are two (and the rivalry takes on epic proportions) Emacs or Vi (Vim) Emacs is the most advanced you will ever see and Vi is the original since early 70-s
oussama 2 years ago	5	wonderful editor
cryptor 2 years ago	4	Editor imprescindible, rápido y bonito.
markator 3 years ago	3	It does not come with tag highlight activated as sublime text does. You have to google for a module, for the way to install it an to activate it.
ngabor7 3 years ago	5	Got everything a text editor needs.
novo1987 3 years ago	5	1*
hitch 3 years ago	5	Love it, especially the dark theme mode. So much earier on the eyes...
lib2know 3 years ago	4	does what it should,not too exciting
asderceder 3 years ago	5	Recently became my favourite plain text editor. Doesn't look as sleek at Leafpad but is really useful for programming, CSS editing and similar.
Sabur 3 years ago	5	Best
luisbraganca 3 years ago	5	Who needs notepad++
Link9 3 years ago	5	Стандартный блокнот можно в нём и покодить.
fresh_user 3 years ago	5	I'm mostly using sublime, but gedit is nice to have for simple and quick edits, especially from terminal
Gyurka 3 years ago	5	I love this simple editor. When I first moved to Linux from Windows, I used to run Notepad++ with Wine out of habit. Once I got familiar with gedit I am using it about 90% of the time. It is quick and handy without a lot of overhead. This is not the most capable text editor but for most days, this is all I need.
maxximo11 3 years ago	5	Love it
AdrianoTorres 3 years ago	4	Simple and direct,
Transformator 4 years ago	5	You need!
jahid_0903014 4 years ago	5	Awesome editor
Dirkoir 4 years ago	3	With built-in spell checker, it's a little above your average default text editor, but not by much. Gedit has trouble with slightly large (e.g. 2.7 MB) text files and has no macro making or line length reformatting. Sort and capitalization change can be added via plug-ins (the Sort plugin has a very neat 'remove duplicates' feature) once you learn about the plugins, that is. But, by that time you are probably already searching for a more powerful text editor -- one which is more befitting the tweak-everything Linux world. ;-)
AdrianArde 4 years ago	5	A excelent editor!Good Work
Fifis 4 years ago	4	As a generic tool for dealing with miscellaneous programming languages, it is very nice, but less powerful than Kate. However, for TeX, TeXStudio is better; for R, RStudio is better. Besides, the “Replace” dialogue missing the “Regex” option makes you blindly guess what “\\” will be treated like. A basic tool, nothing more, but for simple text files that will do.
TheFlyingIndian 4 years ago	5	A good basic Editor....Works Great!!!
bahrampc 4 years ago	5	my favorite editor
bjtamas 4 years ago	5	Egyszerű, gyors, megbízható!
authmane512 4 years ago	1	It's basic
revrww 4 years ago	5	Great editor
Vector-full 5 years ago	4	sencillo y practico
burak3 5 years ago	3	Spent a lot of time searching for plugins to get working all features I needed. Besides it took a while, I did not find all of it. Also movement between words (Ctrl+left/right) worked in a different manner than I am used to.
stevewood007 5 years ago	4	Liked it before, but I've switched to Geany now due to some Gedit plugins being broken. LM15 Cinnamon.
josef7 5 years ago	5	Does a lot & easy to use
xerebus 5 years ago	4	Super Editor
Miau 5 years ago	4	Gedit junto al plugin Smart Highlight es de los programas que más utilizo
berrlone9 5 years ago	1	this is too old and not compatible with the gedit-plugins in the repo
killkenny 5 years ago	4	Basico mas bom
ulrich3110 5 years ago	4	Good editor.
sujitnag 5 years ago	5	good GUI editor. I like to use it.
hermes333 5 years ago	4	Very useful!
AshBaby 5 years ago	5	Good editor.. ample features
cqdyer 5 years ago	4	C'est ok...
telcnas 5 years ago	5	Awesome gui based text editor....support colour coding for various programming lang...
myaquila 5 years ago	4	good simple editor
quake0 6 years ago	5	works great.
gauravjuvekar 6 years ago	5	better than any thing else, but geany is best for coding
mysoomro 6 years ago	4	It's nice, but there are many better text editors.. Gedit has a hard competition.. Of course, it's wayyy better then Microsoft Notepad.
silicont 6 years ago	5	Gedit has the basic bases covered. If you need more there are others, but this is 101 basics essential.
Duff 6 years ago	5	All I need.
cjwelborn 6 years ago	5	i use it for shell scripts too...
jonashendrickx 6 years ago	5	Perfect
dianat100 6 years ago	5	Best there is!
drsmyrke 6 years ago	4	Скорости при открытии файла бы ему прибавить! А в общем отличный редактор!
Thinker 6 years ago	5	Simply Awesome..
macg 6 years ago	5	Excellent
crismblog 6 years ago	5	Excellent
TommyBdk 6 years ago	4	Very good, does a good job, quick.
ulysses 6 years ago	4	A good constant companion.
Mintification 6 years ago	5	For plain text editing, gedit really can't be beat. Moving from Windows, it's the equivalent of the essential Notepad program.
fiver22 6 years ago	4	tiny and useful
Snoopy77 6 years ago	5	Klein, fein, funktioniert !
Emil89 6 years ago	5	I wouldn't be able to live without it. It's exactly what I want in a plain text editor.
JESSEJJ89 6 years ago	5	A must for any developer :)
chassum 7 years ago	5	One of the essential apps. Lightweight and robust. Even if it's not your mainl IDE (though it could be), you'll want to keep it handy.
abunse 7 years ago	1	autosave not enabled by default. Working with tabs and not beeing able to disable it. A.s.o.....
augusto_mint 7 years ago	5	A great text editor. Never needed anything else.
newrave 7 years ago	4	Ein Texteditor ist ein Texteditor bleibt ein Texteditor. Gedit ist einer der besseren.
blueXrider 7 years ago	4	like it
Labby 7 years ago	5	What's not to like about gedit? It's simple and gets the job done.
RavS 7 years ago	5	An awesome editor. Just works...
bugz 7 years ago	4	Very straight forward and usable in daily note saving routines.
atifhans 7 years ago	5	Best editor. I do verilog coding in it and it works best.
OnesimusUnbound 7 years ago	4	simple, lightweight editor.
prativasic 7 years ago	5	By far, the best editor in simplest form.
tamoghna4 7 years ago	4	symple & easy
kazztan0325 7 years ago	5	I cannot programming, but sometimes edit text files. It is simple and easy to use.
Andria 7 years ago	5	with new version this software become a powerful tool
H5N1 7 years ago	4	Top usage, just like a Macintosh simple text.
RytronII 7 years ago	5	There are many great text editors in GNU/Linux but this is still my fave.
Steampunk-Nick 7 years ago	5	Easy to use text editor suitable for everyone
Dannie 7 years ago	5	Great and easy to use text editor. I have written some websites in it and it has worked without problems.
AllGamer 7 years ago	5	this is the App i use the most on my machine
crom 7 years ago	2	Can't open some normal text files which Leafpad opens without problems.
DynamicMan 7 years ago	5	So simple, yet so awesome.
mitanshugamer 7 years ago	5	great...
timoto 7 years ago	4	Good basic text editor
Germmare 7 years ago	5	.. i most use this !!! ...
bst2 7 years ago	3	I prefer (g)vim
zaenal1234 7 years ago	5	very good, & I often use it.
Mitzh 7 years ago	5	simple and nice, especially like the syntax highlightning
mikefreeman 7 years ago	5	Essential tool.
troy 7 years ago	5	I use this all the time!
sayan_acharjee 7 years ago	4	good one =]
ChirmiPlay 7 years ago	5	Le da un terrible puntapié al Bloc de Notas y a su hermano WordPad de Windows.
orionthehunter 7 years ago	5	Gedit is fast and quite elegant. It has intelligent color-coding based on file type and is generally quite polished.
grim 7 years ago	5	Just great!
NumberSeventeen 7 years ago	5	Noting bad about it.
RobinJ 7 years ago	5	It' awsome! A super fast and light-weight text editor that supports syntax highlighting and addons! What else would you need in a text editor?
jamesm 7 years ago	5	I use gedit for all my projects, its a great editor.. Thanks for this peice of software.
L3nz 8 years ago	5	Great features and awesome customizability.
sskeller 8 years ago	5	great editor with syntax highlighting
wanda 8 years ago	5	Gebrauch es taglich sehr gut.
Elisa 8 years ago	5	Cool!
kip- 8 years ago	5	i use it every day,very very usefull! you can edit even css with that or you can make stream file if you know your favour radiostation stream link simple create file.m3u with link inside and open with vlc media player.. love it!
lollo6_83 8 years ago	5	I love its customizability! plugins and themes are a big plus.
m4daredsun 8 years ago	5	I use it everyday to edit any kind of file, from basic text to C++ code. Can't live without it
sewmyheadon 8 years ago	5	Use it all the time and it does exactly what I need it to do.
incogita 8 years ago	5	A text editor swiss army knife. Whatever you want to do, write notes, program Java, or whatever else, this text editor can be customised to your needs. A brilliantly simple and clean interface, forget Notepad++, this is Notepad#.
brettalton 8 years ago	5	Can almost be used as an IDE with it's plugins. Great for programming
dbpatankar 8 years ago	3	Time to save the document increased considerably.
Jac978 8 years ago	4	Great tool.
nikhilsinha 8 years ago	2	I used to like gEdit in Linux Mint 7, now in Linux Mint 9 it takes more than 5 seconds to open or save a normal text file. This problem is a deal breaker for me.
barthossius 8 years ago	4	Prosty edytor, ale dzi?ki wtyczkom staje si? bardzo u?yteczny.
alisahaf 8 years ago	5	very good text editor with the plug-ins
darkprof 8 years ago	5	the best editor to work correctly with the Russian encodings, sorry there is no syntax highlighting for assembler
Rufus 8 years ago	4	I prefer gedit over OpenOffice as long as no complicated text formatting is necessary.

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