Introduction

Gedit is a light-weight text editor. It has all the basic features you come to expect from a simple text editor, but gedit has a native graphic user interface (GUI). Gedit also has command line arguments available to users to quickly and easily view and edit files from a terminal. Overall, gedit is an easy to use text editor with utilizing the powerful capabilities of the GNOME desktop.

Gedit has a verastile plug-in architecture to extend its capablilties. This allows you to perform functions you don't normally except from a text editor, such as piping the outputing of a shell command to the screen. The plug-in architecture also lets you email people, browse the internet, or produce a diff from gedit.

Gedit provides a variety of ways to accomplish all your text editing needs. Gedit has the traditional menu, with all the commands, tools, and options. It also has a toolbar, where the commands you use most often will be found. You can also place the menu and the toolbar anywhere on the desktop you choose, for quick access. Gedit also has a menu in the text window. You need to click the right mouse button to access the menu. Inside you'll see the common editing commands you use the most. Gedit provides a menu, toolbar, and right click menu in order to give you the quickest and easiest access to gedit's commands.

To run gedit, select gedit from the Applications submenu of the Main Menu, or type gedit on the command line.

Gedit is a basic application of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version 0.9.0 of gedit.