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gedit

gedit(/ˈdʒɛdɪt/or/ˈɡɛdɪt/)[3]is atext editordesigned for theGNOMEdesktop environment.It was GNOME's default text editor and part of theGNOME Core Applicationsuntil 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 codeand structured text such asmarkup languages.[5]

gedit
Developer(s)Paolo Maggi
Paolo Borelli
Steve Frécinaux
Jesse van den Kieboom
James Willcox
Chema Celorio
Federico Mena Quintero[citation needed]
Initial releaseFebruary 12, 1999;25 years ago(1999-02-12)
Stable release
46.1[1]Edit this on Wikidata / 1 August 2023;15 months ago(1 August 2023)
Preview release
43. Alpha[2]Edit this on Wikidata / 6 July 2022;2 years ago(6 July 2022)
Repository
Written inC,Python
PlatformLinux,MacOS
TypeText editor
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitegedit-technology.github.io/apps/gedit/

It isfree and open-source softwareunder theGNU General Public Licenseversion 2 or later.[5]

gedit is also available formacOSand at one time had aWindowsversion, which as of May 2020 was no longer available.[6][7]

By July 2017, gedit was not being maintained by any developers, but in August 2017 two developers volunteered to commence work on it again.[8][9][10]

Features

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gedit is also available forWindows,seen here running onWindows 10

gedit includessyntax highlightingviaGtkSourceView[11]for various program code and text markup formats includingMediaWiki.[12][13]gedit also has GUI tabs for editing multiple files. Tabs can be moved between various windows by the user. It can edit remote files usingGVfslibraries; (GnomeVFSis nowdeprecated). It supports a full undo and redo system, search and replace as well as replace all.[14]Other typical code oriented features include line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting, automatic indentation and automatic file backup.[14]

The features of gedit include multi languagespell checkingviaEnchantand a flexiblepluginsystem allowing the addition of new features, for examplesnippetsand integration with external applications including aPythonorBashterminal.[14]A number of plugins are included in gedit itself, with more plugins in the gedit-plugins package and online.[15]

Since version 3.20 gedit uses gspell for spell checking.[16][17]

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.[15]

gedit supportsprinting,including print preview and printing toPostScriptandPDFfiles. Printing options include text font, and page size, orientation, margins, optional printing of page headers and line numbers, as well as syntax highlighting.[18]

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.[19]

Architecture

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

Being part of theGNOME Core Applications,gedit 3 uses theGTK3.x and GNOME 3.xlibraries.The GNOME integration includesdrag and dropto and fromGNOME Files.

gedit uses the GNOME help system for documentation. It also usesvirtual file systemand GNOME printing framework.[20]

In December 2008, gedit binaries were made available formacOSandWindows.[21]

The last version for Windows 32-bit was 2.30.1, released in 2014.[22]Standalone releases for 64-bit Windows continued, with Version 3.20.1 released in 2016.[23]

Current versions of gedit (3.0+) for Windows are also available throughMSYS2and can be installed via the built-inPacman package manager.[24]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"News in 46.1".
  2. ^"News in 43. Alpha".6 July 2022.
  3. ^Borelli, Paolo (19 April 2006)."Re: [gedit-list] Pronouncing gedit"(Email).GNOME Mail Services.The GNOME Project.Retrieved25 April2014.
  4. ^"GNOME Release Notes".GNOME.org.Retrieved26 September2022.
  5. ^abcThe GNOME Project (October 2015)."gedit".Retrieved14 November2024.
  6. ^"gedit On Windows".wiki.gnome.org.5 April 2021.Archivedfrom the original on 1 December 2021.Retrieved1 December2021.
  7. ^"gedit".microsoft.4 May 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 1 December 2021.Retrieved15 November2021.
  8. ^"[gedit-list] gedit is unmaintained, some thoughts".mail.gnome.org.Retrieved5 August2017.
  9. ^"Gedit Text Editor is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu!".OMG! Ubuntu!.27 July 2017.Retrieved2 August2017.
  10. ^The GNOME Project (27 August 2017)."About gedit maintenance".wiki.gnome.org.Retrieved29 December2017.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!
  11. ^"Projects/GtkSourceView - GNOME Wiki!".wiki.gnome.org.
  12. ^Wikipedia:Text editor support § gedit
  13. ^jpfleury."Syntax highlighting for MediaWiki in gedit".GitHub.Retrieved21 October2016.
  14. ^abc"gedit: a powerful, underrated text editor for everybody",Free Software MagazineArchived2008-05-18 at theWayback Machine15 February 2008
  15. ^ab"gedit plugins".gitlab.gnome.org.Retrieved14 November2024.
  16. ^"GNOME / gspell GitLab".gitlab.gnome.org.
  17. ^"Blog post: gspell news".Archived fromthe originalon 14 November 2018.Retrieved23 March2016.
  18. ^"Printing with gedit".Library.gnome.org. 2011.Retrieved23 February2020.
  19. ^Sneddon, Joey-Elijah (15 January 2014)."Gedit Text Editor Finally Gets a UI Revamp".News Organization.Retrieved15 January2014.
  20. ^"Free Software Directory - gedit".Directory.fsf.org. 3 October 2005.Retrieved23 February2020.
  21. ^"Club Silencio » Late Christmas gift for Windows users".Blogs.gnome.org. 25 December 2008.Retrieved13 March2009.
  22. ^"ftp.gnome.org".ftp.gnome.org.Retrieved22 March2019.
  23. ^"ftp.gnome.org".ftp.gnome.org.Retrieved22 March2019.
  24. ^"How to build your GTK+ application on Windows".Blogs.gnome.org. 1 August 2014.Retrieved30 November2015.
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