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gedit
Developer(s)Paolo Maggi
Paolo Borelli
Steve Frécinaux
Jesse van den Kieboom
James Willcox
Chema Celorio
Federico Mena Quintero
Initial release12 February 1999
Repository
Written inC, Python
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeText editor
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteprojects.gnome.org/gedit

gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed as a general purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.[1]

It is designed to have a clean, simple graphical user interface according to the philosophy of the GNOME project, and it is the default text editor for GNOME.[1]

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, gedit is free software.[1]

Features

gedit includes syntax highlighting for various program code and text markup formats. 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 (GnomeVFS is now deprecated) libraries. It supports a full undo and redo system as well as search and replace.[2] Other typical code oriented features include line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting, automatic indentation and automatic file backup.[2]

The features of gedit include multilanguage spellchecking 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.[2] A number of plugins are included in gedit itself, with more plugins in the gedit-plugins package and online.[3]

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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Architecture

Designed for the X Window System, gedit uses the GTK+ 2.0 and GNOME 2.0 libraries. The GNOME integration includes drag and drop to and from Nautilus, the GNOME file manager.

gedit uses the GNOME help system for documentation. It also uses virtual file system and GNOME printing framework.[4]

In December 2008, gedit binaries were made available for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c The GNOME Project (2009). "What is gedit". Retrieved 2009-03-16. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  2. ^ a b c "gedit: a powerful, underrated text editor for everybody", Free Software Magazine 15 February 2008
  3. ^ "Gedit Plugins". Live.gnome.org. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
  4. ^ "Free Software Directory - gedit". Directory.fsf.org. 2005-10-03. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
  5. ^ "Club Silencio » Late Christmas gift for Windows users". Blogs.gnome.org. 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2009-03-13.

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