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[[Programmer|DeveloperTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Paolo Maggi
Paolo Borelli
Steve Frécinaux
Jesse van den Kieboom
James Willcox
Chema Celorio
Federico Mena Quintero[citation needed]
Initial releaseFebruary 12, 1999; 27 years ago (1999-02-12)
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Written inC, Python
Operating systemLinux, MacOS, Windows
TypeText editor
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
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gedit (/ˈdʒɛdɪt/ or /ˈɡɛdɪt/)[1] is a text editor designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It was GNOME's default text editor and part of the GNOME Core Applications until GNOME version 42 in March 2022, which changed the default text editor to GNOME Text Editor.[2] 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.[3] It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.[3] It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.[3]

By July 2017, gedit was not being maintained by any developers, but in August 2017 two developers volunteered to commence work on it again.[4][5][6]

Features

gedit is also available for Windows, seen here running on Windows 10.

gedit includes syntax highlighting via GtkSourceView[7] for various program code and text markup formats including MediaWiki.[8][9] 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, search and replace as well as replace all.[10] Other typical code oriented features include line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting, automatic indentation and automatic file backup.[10]

The features of gedit include multi language spell checking via Enchant and a flexible plugin system allowing the addition of new features, for example snippets and integration with external applications including a Python or Bash terminal.[10] A number of plugins are included in gedit itself, with more plugins in the gedit-plugins package and online.[11]

Since version 3.20 gedit uses gspell for spell checking.[12][13]

gedit has an optional side pane displaying the list of open files and (in a different tab of the side pane) a file browser. It also has an optional bottom pane with a Python console and (using gedit-plugins) terminal. gedit automatically detects when an open file is modified on disk by another application and offers to reload that file. Using a plugin (in gedit-plugins package), gedit can save and load sessions, which are lists of currently open tabs.[11]

gedit supports printing, including print preview and printing to PostScript and PDF files. Printing options include text font, and page size, orientation, margins, optional printing of page headers and line numbers, as well as syntax highlighting.[14]

In late 2013 and early 2014 the application received major upgrades for Gnome 3.12, with a new, cleaner user interface and code base improvements to make it work better with other desktop interfaces, such as Unity.[15]

Architecture

gedit logo from 2010
gedit logo from 2009
gedit logo from 2006

Being part of the GNOME Core Applications, gedit 3 uses the GTK 3.x and GNOME 3.x libraries. The GNOME integration includes drag and drop to and from GNOME Files.

gedit uses the GNOME help system for documentation. It also uses virtual file system and GNOME printing framework.[16]

In December 2008, gedit binaries were made available for macOS and Windows.[17]

The last version for Windows 32-bit was 2.30.1, released in 2014.[18] Standalone releases for 64-bit Windows continued, with Version 3.20.1 released in 2016.[19]

Current versions of gedit (3.0+) for Windows are also available through MSYS2 and can be installed via the built-in Pacman package manager.[20]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Borelli, Paolo (19 April 2006). "Re: [gedit-list] Pronouncing gedit" (Email). GNOME Mail Services. The GNOME Project. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GNOME Release Notes". GNOME.org. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The gedit team (November 2025). "gedit, an easy-to-learn text editor". Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."[gedit-list] gedit is unmaintained, some thoughts". mail.gnome.org. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gedit Text Editor is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu!". OMG! Ubuntu!. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The GNOME Project (27 August 2017). "About gedit maintenance". wiki.gnome.org. Retrieved 29 December 2017. about gedit maintenance: gedit has been marked as unmaintained recently, now two new developers have proposed their help to become new maintainers. If you want to help, reach us on the IRC channel or the mailing list, thanks!
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Projects/GtkSourceView - GNOME Wiki!". wiki.gnome.org.
  8. ^ Wikipedia:Text editor support § gedit
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.jpfleury. "Syntax highlighting for MediaWiki in gedit". GitHub. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  10. ^ a b c "gedit: a powerful, underrated text editor for everybody", Free Software Magazine Script error: No such module "webarchive". 15 February 2008
  11. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."gedit plugins". gitlab.gnome.org. 10 November 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GNOME / gspell GitLab". gitlab.gnome.org.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Blog post: gspell news". Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Printing with gedit". Library.gnome.org. 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sneddon, Joey-Elijah (15 January 2014). "Gedit Text Editor Finally Gets a UI Revamp". News Organization. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Free Software Directory - gedit". Directory.fsf.org. 3 October 2005. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Club Silencio » Late Christmas gift for Windows users". Blogs.gnome.org. 25 December 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ftp.gnome.org". ftp.gnome.org. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ftp.gnome.org". ftp.gnome.org. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."How to build your GTK+ application on Windows". Blogs.gnome.org. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2015.

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