Editing Gedit (section)

==Features==
[[File:Gedit Win10.png|thumbnail|gedit is also available for [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], seen here running on [[Windows 10]]]]

gedit includes [[syntax highlighting]] via [[GtkSourceView]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView|title=Projects/GtkSourceView - GNOME Wiki!|website=wiki.gnome.org}}</ref> for various program code and text markup formats including [[MediaWiki]].<ref>[[Wikipedia:Text editor support#gedit|Wikipedia:Text editor support § gedit]]</ref><ref>{{cite web
 | url          = https://github.com/jpfleury/gedit-mediawiki
 | title        = Syntax highlighting for MediaWiki in gedit
 | author       = jpfleury
 | website      = [[GitHub]]
 | access-date  = 2016-10-21}}</ref> gedit also has GUI tabs for editing multiple files. Tabs can be moved between various windows by the user. It can edit remote files using [[GVfs]] libraries; ([[GnomeVFS]] is now [[Deprecation|deprecated]]). It supports a full undo and redo system, search and replace as well as replace all.<ref name="fsm"/> Other typical code oriented features include line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting, automatic indentation and automatic file backup.<ref name="fsm">[http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gedit_powerful_underrated_text_editor_everybody "gedit: a powerful, underrated text editor for everybody", ''Free Software Magazine''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518020959/http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gedit_powerful_underrated_text_editor_everybody |date=2008-05-18}} 15 February 2008</ref>

The features of gedit include multi language [[spell checker|spell checking]] via [[Enchant (software)|Enchant]] and a flexible [[Plug-in (computing)|plugin]] system allowing the addition of new features, for example [[Snippet management|snippets]] and integration with external applications including a [[Python (programming language)|Python]] or [[Bash (Unix shell)|Bash]] terminal.<ref name="fsm" /> A number of plugins are included in gedit itself, with more plugins in the gedit-plugins package and online.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/gedit/gedit/-/blob/master/plugins/list-of-gedit-plugins.md |title=gedit plugins |date=10 November 2024 |publisher=gitlab.gnome.org |access-date=2024-11-14}}</ref>

Since version 3.20 gedit uses gspell for spell checking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gspell|title=GNOME / gspell GitLab|website=gitlab.gnome.org}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.gnome.org/swilmet/2015/11/20/gspell-news/|title=Blog post: gspell news|access-date=23 March 2016|archive-date=14 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114060144/https://blogs.gnome.org/swilmet/2015/11/20/gspell-news/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

gedit has an optional side pane displaying the list of open files and (in a different tab of the side pane) a file browser. It also has an optional bottom pane with a Python console and (using gedit-plugins) terminal. gedit automatically detects when an open file is modified on disk by another application and offers to reload that file. Using a plugin (in gedit-plugins package), gedit can save and load sessions, which are lists of currently open tabs.<ref name="auto"/>

gedit supports [[computer printer|printing]], including print preview and printing to [[PostScript]] and [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] files. Printing options include text font, and page size, orientation, margins, optional printing of page headers and line numbers, as well as syntax highlighting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/gedit-printing.html |title=Printing with gedit |publisher=Library.gnome.org |year=2011 |access-date=2020-02-23}}</ref>

In late 2013 and early 2014 the application received major upgrades for Gnome 3.12, with a new, cleaner user interface and code base improvements to make it work better with other desktop interfaces, such as [[Unity (user interface)|Unity]].<ref name="Sneddon15Jan14">{{cite news|url = https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/gnome-gedit-text-editor-new-look|title = Gedit Text Editor Finally Gets a UI Revamp|access-date = 15 January 2014|last = Sneddon|first = Joey-Elijah|date = 15 January 2014| work = News Organization}}</ref>