Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment
While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
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
gedit features also a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to gedit itself.
Simple solid editor. Does not try and do everything like some editors. I have been a happy user for a number of years. The only feature I would like is a multi file search, but that can be done outside.