gedit
gedit (/ˈdʒɛdɪt/ or /ˈɡɛdɪt/) 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. 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. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.
gedit 46.1 showing an "Hello, world!" with syntax highlighting and one other tab | |
| Developer(s) | Paolo Maggi Paolo Borelli Steve Frécinaux Jesse van den Kieboom James Willcox Chema Celorio Federico Mena Quintero |
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| Initial release | February 12, 1999 |
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| Written in | C, Python |
| Platform | Linux, MacOS |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | wiki |
It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
gedit is also available for macOS and at one time had a Windows version, which as of May 2020 was no longer available.
By July 2017, gedit was not being maintained by any developers, but in August 2017 two developers volunteered to commence work on it again.