gedit

What gedit is

gedit is a general-purpose text editor for notes, documents, and software development. It opens files in tabs and supports Unicode and UTF-8 text. Editing tools include regular-expression search and replace, spell-checking, word completion, automatic indentation, line numbers, and text wrapping. For code, syntax highlighting is available for languages including Python, Shell, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and Markdown. It can also edit files from remote locations. A plugin system adds options such as bookmarks, document statistics, file browsing, modelines, sorting, and spell-checking. Development began alongside GNOME in 1998, and gedit integrates with that desktop environment. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows; the listed installation routes include distribution packages or Flathub, Homebrew, and the Microsoft Store. gedit is free and released under Free/Libre Open Source licenses. The listed plan is free. Related services include plugin development, code maintenance, training, support, and long-term support versions.