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gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor. | With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. |
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 highlighting;Bracket matching;Backup files;Configurable fonts and colors;A complete online user manual;A flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features | Code Hints from a PSD;Inline Editors;Live Preview;Preprocessor Support |
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GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 33.1K |
GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks 7.6K |
Stacks 64 | Stacks 450 |
Followers 101 | Followers 752 |
Votes 48 | Votes 202 |
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What are some alternatives to gedit, Brackets?
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Atom
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
Vim
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Visual Studio Code
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Notepad++
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Emacs
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Neovim
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VSCodium
It is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode.
TextMate
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Kakoune
Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones. Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.
