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gedit ( or ) 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. It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

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Software.name
GNOME
Software.title
gedit
Software.logo
GNOME Gedit 2018.svg
Software.logo_size
100px
Software.screenshot
Screenshot of gedit 46.1.png
Software.caption
gedit 46.1 showing "Hello, world!" with syntax highlighting and one other tab
Software.screenshot_size
300px
Software.screenshot_alt
gedit displaying an "Hello, world!" script written in C++ with one other tab
Software.developer
Paolo MaggiPaolo BorelliSteve FrécinauxJesse van den KieboomJames WillcoxChema CelorioFederico Mena Quintero
Software.programming language
C, Python
Software.operating system
Linux, MacOS, Windows
Software.genre
Text editor
Software.license
GPL-2.0-or-later

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Official website
gedit-text-editor.org
Image
Gedit 3.32 screenshot.png
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IRC channel URL
irc://irc.gnome.org/gedit
source code repository URL
github.com/GNOME/gedit
Commons category
Gedit
software version identifier
49.0
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Gedit
inception
1999-02-12
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gedit ( or ) 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. It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

By July 2017, gedit was not being maintained by any developers, but in August 2017 two developers volunteered to commence work on it again.

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