gedit
Text editor Source
Description
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.
Rating
Mobile Fit: 5Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!
Project status: released
This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.
The project repository was created on 2018-05-22.
The last known commit happened on 2025-03-29.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-05-09
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Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.gedit.flatpakref
If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:
Install* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-2.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0
Frameworks: GTK3
Programming languages: C Python
Build system: meson
AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/gedit/gedit/-/raw/master/data/org.gnome.gedit.metainfo.xml.in