gedit
gedit on Ubuntu Linux
Maintainer:	gedit developers
Latest release:	2.14.2 / April 11, 2006
OS:	Unix-like
Genre:	Text editor
License:	GPL
Website:	gnome.org/projects/gedit/

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Features

Gedit includes syntax highlighting and tabs for editing multiple files. It can edit remote files thanks to the GNOME VFS libraries. It supports a full undo and redo system as well as advanced search and replace. Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that displays text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. ... GNOME VFS is short for GNOME Virtual File System. ...

Some advanced features of gedit include multilanguage spellchecking and a flexible plugin system allowing to dynamically add new features. In computing terms, a spell checker or spelling checker is a design feature or a software program designed to verify the spelling of words in a document, helping a user to ensure correct spelling. ... A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ...

Minor features of gedit include line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting and automatic file backup.

Architecture

Designed for the X Window System, it uses the GTK+ 2.0 and GNOME 2.0 libraries. Complete GNOME integration is featured, with support for drag and drop between Nautilus (the GNOME file manager); and the use of the GNOME help system, virtual file system, and printing framework. KDE 3. ... Initially created for the raster graphics editor, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, the GIMP Toolkit—abbreviated, and almost exclusively known, as GTK+—is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System for creating graphical user interfaces. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of (or support for the action of) clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object. ... Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. ... A file manager is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. ... GNOME VFS is short for GNOME Virtual File System. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors

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External links

• Homepage of gedit