| gedit | |
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 gedit 46.1 showing "Hello, world!" withsyntax highlighting and one other tab | |
| Developers | Paolo Maggi Paolo Borelli Steve Frécinaux Jesse van den Kieboom James Willcox Chema Celorio Federico Mena Quintero[citation needed] |
| Initial release | February 12, 1999; 27 years ago (1999-02-12) |
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| Written in | C,Python |
| Operating system | Linux,MacOS,Windows |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | gedit-text-editor |
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gedit (/ˈdʒɛdɪt/ or/ˈɡɛdɪt/)[3] is atext editor designed for theGNOMEdesktop environment. It was GNOME's default text editor and part of theGNOME Core Applications until GNOME version 42 in March 2022, which changed the default text editor toGNOME Text Editor.[4] Designed as a general-purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use, with a clean and simpleGUI, according to the philosophy of the GNOME project.[5] It includes tools for editingsource code and structured text such asmarkup languages.[5] It isfree and open-source software under theGNU General Public License version 2 or later.[5]
By July 2017, gedit was not being maintained by any developers, but in August 2017 two developers volunteered to commence work on it again.[6][7][8]
gedit includessyntax highlighting viaGtkSourceView[9] for various program code and text markup formats includingMediaWiki.[10][11] gedit also has GUI tabs for editing multiple files. Tabs can be moved between various windows by the user. It can edit remote files usingGVfs libraries; (GnomeVFS is nowdeprecated). It supports a full undo and redo system, search and replace as well as replace all.[12] Other typical code oriented features include line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting, automatic indentation and automatic file backup.[12]
The features of gedit include multi languagespell checking viaEnchant and a flexibleplugin system allowing the addition of new features, for examplesnippets and integration with external applications including aPython orBash terminal.[12] A number of plugins are included in gedit itself, with more plugins in the gedit-plugins package and online.[13]
Since version 3.20 gedit uses gspell for spell checking.[14][15]
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.[13]
gedit supportsprinting, including print preview and printing toPostScript andPDF files. Printing options include text font, and page size, orientation, margins, optional printing of page headers and line numbers, as well as syntax highlighting.[16]
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 asUnity.[17]
Being part of theGNOME Core Applications, gedit 3 uses theGTK 3.x and GNOME 3.xlibraries. The GNOME integration includesdrag and drop to and fromGNOME Files.
gedit uses the GNOME help system for documentation. It also usesvirtual file system and GNOME printing framework.[18]
In December 2008, gedit binaries were made available formacOS andWindows.[19]
The last version for Windows 32-bit was 2.30.1, released in 2014.[20] Standalone releases for 64-bit Windows continued, with Version 3.20.1 released in 2016.[21]
Current versions of gedit (3.0+) for Windows are also available throughMSYS2 and can be installed via the built-inPacman package manager.[22]
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