Gnome Text Editor

Gedit is a UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. It's most basic function resembles the Microsoft Notepad ^tm text tool.

With this application you can do the following:

General purpose editing Undo/Redo Bracket matching Use it to copy formatted text from the Internet etc. and paste it as standard text.

Edit source code Line numbers Print and print preview support Easily edit configuration files from within a gnome-terminal session

Basic Usage

Basic Usage

Gedit is 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.

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.

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You can access this application in the following ways:

• Computer ▸ More Applications ▸ Accessories section ▸ Text Editor.
• From the command line, type: 'gedit &' or 'gedit '

Further Information

Further Reading and Information

For more information regarding gedit , please refer to the following external website:

• http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/