gedit is an easy-to-use and general-purpose text editor. Its development started in 1998, at the beginnings of the GNOME project, with a good integration with that desktop environment.

You can use it to write simple notes and documents, or you can enable more advanced features that are useful for software development.

See the gedit website for more information.

gedit is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later, see the file COPYING for more information.

gedit depends on GTK 3.

For a complete list of dependencies, see the meson.build file.

To build gedit from source, see the docs/build.md file.

Please read the web page on how to report bugs, it contains a list of frequently reported bugs and a link to the bug tracker.

• gedit on GitLab
• gedit-plugins on GitLab
• Tarballs

gedit development relies on voluntary contributions and everyone is invited to help.

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more information.