![]() Most of the time it can figure it out and do the highlighting automatically. gEdit can highlight syntax for huge number of languages. ![]() Syntax Highlightingīefore we go to plugins, one of the coolest feature in gEdit is its syntax highlighting. If you have worked in any general purpose text editor, you will be immediately feel at home with gEdit. It is very flexible and extensible – it has an excellent plugin architecture, allows themes to customize UI and so on. GEdit is a lightweight editor in GNOME with lot of neat features. I will focus on Ubuntu version of gEdit and its plugins – although most of the points are applicable to other Linux distributions. Instead, I will focus on its powerful plugin architecture and recommend some plugins which I hope will, dramatically improve your productivity. This post is not a tutorial on using gEdit. I primarily use Vim for my coding and use gEdit for some basic stuff like taking notes, writing blog post drafts etc. gEdit is much much more powerful than notepad (or Wordpad for that matter). ![]() Most people underestimate the power of gEdit – comparing it to notepad in Windows. Probably this is the editor with least learning curve. If you are one of the new users to Linux, it will not hurt to learn to use gEdit. ![]() If you are one of those people – Great ! You have found the editor of your dreams. Hard core Linux users mostly focus on either vim or emacs. GEdit is one of the excellent text editors available with GNOME. ![]()
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