gedit is the GNOME text editor.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

Notable Features

• Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
• Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
• Undo/Redo
• Editing files from remote locations
• File reverting
• Print and print preview support
• Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
• Search and replace
• Go to specific line
• Auto indentation
• Text wrapping
• Line numbers
• Right margin
• Current line highlighting
• Bracket matching
• Backup files
• Configurable fonts and colors
• A complete online user manual
• A flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features

Screenshots

Online Help (for gedit and default gedit plugins)

Frequently Asked Questions

Keyboard Shortcuts

Download

• Source Tarballs

• Windows binaries

• Mac OS X packages

Plugins

• Lists of gedit plugins

• How to write a gedit plugin

Getting in Touch

• IRC channel: the #gedit channel on irc.gnome.org

• Mailing list

• Reporting bugs

Development Resources

• Git: git clone git://git.gnome.org/gedit

• Browse source code

• Development – getting started

• RoadMap

• Development notes

HOWTO Documents

• Using External Tools

• Using Snippets

See Also

• External Tools Plugin Command Collection

• A Collection of Code Snippets for the Snippets Plugin

• Syntax Highlighter and Language Bundles

• List of extra style schemes

• List of extra syntax highlighting definition files