Gedit

gedit
Developer(s)Paolo Maggi
Paolo Borelli
Steve Frécinaux
Jesse van den Kieboom
James Willcox
Chema Celorio
Federico Mena Quintero[citation needed]
Initial releaseFebruary 12, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-02-12)
Stable release
46.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 1 August 2023; 15 months ago (1 August 2023)
Preview release
43.alpha[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 6 July 2022; 2 years ago (6 July 2022)
Repository
Written inC, Python
PlatformLinux, MacOS
TypeText editor
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit

gedit (/ˈdʒɛdɪt/ or /ˈɡɛdɪt/)[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.[5]

It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.[5]

gedit is also available for macOS and at one time had a Windows version, which as of May 2020 was no longer available.[6][7]

By July 2017, gedit was not being maintained by any developers, but in August 2017 two developers volunteered to commence work on it again.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ "News in 46.1".
  2. ^ "News in 43.alpha". 6 July 2022.
  3. ^ Borelli, Paolo (19 April 2006). "Re: [gedit-list] Pronouncing gedit" (Email). GNOME Mail Services. The GNOME Project. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  4. ^ "GNOME Release Notes". GNOME.org. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  5. ^ a b c The GNOME Project (October 2015). "gedit". Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  6. ^ "gedit On Windows". wiki.gnome.org. 5 April 2021. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  7. ^ "gedit". microsoft.com. 4 May 2020. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  8. ^ "[gedit-list] gedit is unmaintained, some thoughts". mail.gnome.org. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  9. ^ "Gedit Text Editor is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu!". OMG! Ubuntu!. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  10. ^ The GNOME Project (27 August 2017). "About gedit maintenance". wiki.gnome.org. Retrieved 29 December 2017. about gedit maintenance: gedit has been marked as unmaintained recently, now two new developers have proposed their help to become new maintainers. If you want to help, reach us on the IRC channel or the mailing list, thanks!