Overview

What is GEdit?

gedit : The official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment, a multipurpose text editor with support for many text formats and plugins

In depth

A closer look at GEdit

gedit The installation procedure does not take a long time to finish. gedit's main application window resembles the one of a simple word processor like Notepad, with a key difference being that it features multiple tabs, meaning that you can work in multiple documents at the same time. Syntax highlighting is supported for plain text, INI and changelog files, CSS, C#, JavaScript, R, Octave, and so on.

gedit 3.20.1 (64-bit)

It is now ready to run on windows. It is really efficient and totally free. In other desktop environments is very successful and that would be a good reason to try it out. Very versatile it can highlight a good number of programming languages among them we can highlight c c java python fortran haskell sql php or javascript. If you don't have a powerful computer or you need to open multiple documents at the same time ppit consumes very few resources. It also supports add-ons making gedit even more powerful and useful.

Verdict

Should you download GEdit?

GEdit runs on Linux and is available under the GPLv2 license — the installer is 22.8 MB. We’ve catalogued it under Word Processing.

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GEdit specifications

Category: Word Processing
Publisher: Alex Roberts
Last updated: Nov 20, 2025
License: GPLv2
Operating system: Linux
File size: 22.8 MB
Price: Free
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