what is gedit?

gedit is a lightweight text editor for the GNOME desktop found in many distributions of Linux, BSD and other Unix systems. Designed for the X Window System, it uses the GTK+ and GNOME libraries. gedit is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

gedit supports most standard editing features, and has a powerful plugin system for adding even more. See the features page for a complete description, or go to the screenshots page to see it in action!