gedit

gedit is the text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

The first goal of gedit is to be easy to use, with a simple interface by default. More advanced features are available by enabling plugins.

Notable Features

Files are opened in tabs

Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)

Syntax highlighting for lots of languages (Python, Shell, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, Markdown and many others)

Configurable fonts and colors

Print and print preview support

Search and replace with support of regular expressions

A side panel with an integrated file browser

Spell-checking

Word auto-completion

Undo/Redo

Auto indentation

Text wrapping

Line numbers

Right margin

Highlight current line

Highlight matching brackets

Editing files from remote locations

Backup files

A flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features

List of plugins distributed with gedit

Screenshots

Installation

On Windows

gedit is available on the Microsoft Store: gedit for Windows.

On macOS

macOS packages (a bit outdated)

A Homebrew formula for the latest version of gedit is available: brew install gedit

On Linux

gedit is installed by default with many Linux distributions, otherwise you can install the gedit and gedit-plugins packages.

Getting in Touch

See Also

CategoryTextEditor