Gedit
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gedit 3.12 with syntax highlighting
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| Developer(s) | Paolo Maggi Paolo Borelli Steve Frécinaux Jesse van den Kieboom James Willcox Chema Celorio Federico Mena Quintero |
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| Initial release | February 12, 1999 |
| Stable release | 3.22.3 (9 November 2016) |
| Preview release | 3.23.91 (1 March 2017) |
| Repository | git |
| Written in | C, Python |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | GNU General Public License |
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gedit (/ˈdʒɛdɪt/ or /ˈɡɛdɪt/) is the default text editor of the GNOME desktop environment and part of the GNOME Core Applications. Designed as a general-purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use, with a clean and simple GUI, according to the philosophy of the GNOME project. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.
It is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
gedit is also available for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
gedit includes syntax highlighting via GtkSourceView for various program code and text markup formats including . gedit also has GUI tabs for editing multiple files. Tabs can be moved between various windows by the user. It can edit remote files using GVFS libraries; (GnomeVFS is now deprecated). It supports a full undo and redo system as well as search and replace. Other typical code oriented features include line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting, automatic indentation and automatic file backup.
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