gedit
(3 | 2.7)
Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions - Lightweight - Spell checking - Syntax Highlighting
surehand53
4 years ago
simple lightweight beginner friendly IDE yet it has some quite useful functionsterminal accesssupport for many languages
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Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.
Currently it features:
* Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
* Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
* Undo/Redo
* Editing files from remote locations
* File reverting
* Print and print preview support
* Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
* Search and replace
* Go to specific line
* Auto indentation
* Text wrapping
* Line numbers
* Right margin
* Current line ...
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External Links
Official Website
Microsoft Store
Ubuntu Software Center
Features
+ Extensible by Plugins/Extensions (24 )
+ Lightweight (4 )
+ Spell checking (3 )
+ Syntax Highlighting (2 )
+ Tabs (1 )
+ Autocompletion (0 )
Application Types
Text Editor (1 )
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