What is gedit?
The gedit text editor provides cross-platform functionality, supporting the GNOME desktop environment, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Its feature set includes internationalized text capabilities, syntax highlighting, undo and redo operations, file reverting, as well as print and print preview functionality. Designed with simplicity and usability in mind, gedit also offers robust general-purpose text editing capabilities
Highlights
- Cross-platform support for GNOME, macOS, and Windows
- Internationalized text handling
- Syntax highlighting for various code languages
- Undo and redo operations
- File reverting
- Print and print preview support
Features
Undo/Redo
A complete online user manual
A flexible plugin system which can be used to
Go to specific line
Configurable syntax highlighting for various
Right margin
Current line highlighting
Auto indentation
File reverting
Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
Search and Replace
Bracket matching
Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
Line numbers
Configurable fonts and colors
Editing files from remote locations
Text Wrapping
Print and print preview support
Backup files