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What is gedit?

gEdit is a general purpose text editor that includes internationalized text, syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file reverting, print and print preview support and more.

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gEdit is a general purpose text editor that includes internationalized text, syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file reverting, print and print preview support and more.


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Year Founded
1997
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Aniruddha G.
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Aniruddha G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Decent text editor"
Very basic text editor. Quite capable of handling large text files. Good for quick, small edits in code too.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"A good text editor for linux (not the best)"
It's simple and clean. The language support is also great.
Sai Teja S.
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Sai Teja S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best editor for IT"
1. Color difference between the context 2. Compare tool 3. Check spelling 4 highlight misspelled words
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What do you like best about gedit?

Gedit is lightweight. It can work on text files with the same efficiency as command-line based editors. It is usually pre-installed with major Linux distributions, and that is because it IS the best! With a very simple and minimalistic UI, Gedit also handles large text files quite easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

Gedit lacks the visual attractiveness that usually dominates the appeal. For example, the stock version of the software looks minimalistic with a basic set of color-scheme, but not all users would prefer that. Furthermore, customizing the themes is quite a task with Gedit, as compared to other text editors where they can switch the themes with a few keystrokes itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Use the extensive plugins library to make repetitive tasks easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Gedit mainly for editing plain text files because since a lot of distributions have Gedit pre-installed, it is quite easy to use it. Furthermore, Gedit also comes in handy when we have to query long files or just want to write a plaintext file as quickly as possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apoorv N.
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What do you like best about gedit?

This editor is quite useful for users with programming background. Support for keybinding customizations is amazing.

The UI is quite minimalistic and is a great substitute to notepad in ubuntu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

The features could have been much better in the application. CLI tools require better access to UI especially for linux OS. The developers behind this application should now focus on making it more feature-powered and comparable to Sublime Text and similar editors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used gEdit in past for writting developer scripts and faster corrections in files for taking notes etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about gedit?

Gedit is a text editor which is very simple and easy to use. It has a very simple interface and comes as default with most linux distribution. This editor is also available in windows. I like the inserting date feature in this editor and use it a lot. It has auto-save enabled which is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

This isnt a good editor if you work with large files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy and simple interface is very helpful. I feel this editor is very intutive which is the best part of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about gedit?

This editor is very useful when you are doing programming. IT supports syntax highlighting which makes coding much easier.

Also, this editor supports keyboard shortcut customization which is very useful.

The date and time insertion option is also good here. and data is auto-saved so that there is no fear of losing data that is present in the file in case of power failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

As of now, I don't find anything to dislike about the awesome editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to see text much cleaner way which is copied from external sources like browsers.

And useful for taking notes quickly during meetings or calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sushil B.
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What do you like best about gedit?

It is simple and light to work. It is a perfect replacement for Notepad of Windows in Ubuntu. I use it to clean texts copied from the browser. It removes formatting and provides the plain that I require. The best thing about this is that it is simple, lightweight, and fast. It shows multiple files in tabs, making it even more impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

Nothing! It is the best lightweight text editor I was looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped me clean up copied texts from browsers. I often use it as a clipboard while working with multiple copy-paste operations. Other than that, it has helped me read through files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about gedit?

I like the syntax highlights, search and replace with regular expressions, and plugins for comparing files, everything works like a charm and you don't need any other editor for any of the task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

I do not think of anything at the moment, it is super efficient and I have opened 10 GigaByte Comma Separated (CSV) file and can do the search and replace without any lag or issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needed a text editor that can do more than normal file operations to do my BAU tasks. With gedit I was able to improve the performance and most of my shell script and file editing time was saved by its fast speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GINNY G.
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What do you like best about gedit?

GEdit is the alternative to notepad in Ubuntu. It provides all the basic functionalities which a text editor provides. One more advantage is that it is open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

The UI is very basic and not modern. The fonts are not very convenient. Not many disadvantages are functionalities are minimal, thereby providing very minimal usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use GEdit to edit source files and text files in the Ubuntu operating system. In addition, we are using GEdit to store temporary information in a new file and quickly edit HTML files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Srinivas D.
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What do you like best about gedit?

Its interface and easy-to-use options like highlighting the text, fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

There is nothing much so far experience is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Syntax highlighting which helps while writing programs, supports different programming languagaes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Varsha R.
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What do you like best about gedit?

It's basic and I think that's about it. It comes with a straightforward UI and works well when there is a need to quickly open files for editing from the command line and quick saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

The functionalities could have been better. Command line tools require better access to UI especially for GUI based Linux OSes like Ubuntu. This would have been better if there was a shortcut or application as well that could be ported to other platforms and synced with terminals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows easy integration with command line and terminal actions in Linux based systems and provides a GUI for editing, something that vim doesn't do. It increases efficiency and comfort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about gedit?

It's the default editor on my linux (ubuntu) workstation, it's very lightweight and easy to use software for editing files having code, other texts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about gedit?

It's not as advanced as other editors like sublime text when it comes to editing code for specific programming languages like python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?

For faster corrections in files while I do software development and taking notes while I go through an online resource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.