Gedit

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Gedit
Official GNOME Text Editor
Developer:	Paolo Maggi (Current Maintainer)
Package Info (pin)	openSUSE 11.0 openSUSE 10.3 openSUSE 10.2
License:	GPL
Website:	http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit//

About Gedit

gedit is a free software, UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to have a clean, simple interface inspired by the ideals of the GNOME project.

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 search and replace.

Some advanced features of gedit include multilanguage spellchecking and a flexible plugin system allowing to dynamically add new features, for example snippets and integration with external applications.

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