# gedit Reviews **Vendor:** GNOME Foundation **Category:** [Text Editor Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-editor) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 76 ## About gedit gEdit is a general purpose text editor that includes internationalized text, syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file reverting, print and print preview support and more. ## gedit Reviews ### 1. Decent text editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aniruddha G. | Full-stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2024 **What do you like best about gedit?** Very basic text editor. Quite capable of handling large text files. Good for quick, small edits in code too. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Theming is not great. Existing in-built themes are not very easy on the eye. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It lets me quickly edit code, text or csv files. It helps with reading and updating shell scripts, my bash history, various config files, etc. ### 2. Gedit - most simplified text editor for linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about gedit?** It has a very simple interface yet provides syntax highlighting for all the common programming languages. Also you can change font style and font size on the go. **What do you dislike about gedit?** The theme of the editor gedit is static bright theme - so it cannot be changed to dark mode. All of today's editors provide this functionality so maybe gedit can also provide this. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is used to code and write text on linux. It comes preinstalled, so you don't have to do any extra effort to install it. Also it increases efficiency by being simple to use. ### 3. GEdit - Simple Text Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023 **What do you like best about gedit?** It's a very lightweight and simple text editor, which comes preinstalled in Ubuntu. It supports most common programming languages, and it is very robust in syntax highlighting. **What do you dislike about gedit?** The support can be inreased to more programming languages, as well as more support features can be added, such as plugin support and autocomplete for common programming languages. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very helpful text editor, that actually enables to write clear text and gives us syntax highlighting for most of the programming languages that are commonly used like java. ### 4. A good text editor for linux (not the best) **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **What do you like best about gedit?** It's simple and clean. The language support is also great. **What do you dislike about gedit?** The theme engine is not great. Plugins and extensions are not available **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** For Windows I use VSCode but gedit works fine for me in Linux as it takes less RAM and is much more responsive than VSCode ### 5. Best file management tool available on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** miquel g. | Software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2023 **What do you like best about gedit?** The best part about gedit is how easy is to use it, how popular it is, how many things you can do it, it always works, efficient, fast, good support and many articles about it in the internet. **What do you dislike about gedit?** It could be considered old or deprecated, but none of that is of matter. It's just as great as everyone has been saying, just takes a bit to get used to it!!!!!!!!! **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Perfect to write notes, code, keep passwords, links, etc! I've been using it on my work and personal life for over 10 years, even back at school when i was studying. ### 6. Best editor for IT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Teja S. | Information Technology Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about gedit?** 1. Color difference between the context 2. Compare tool 3. Check spelling 4 highlight misspelled words **What do you dislike about gedit?** 1. Window of tab 2. Some Shortcuts not working 3. Some bugs available **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gedit useful for preparing configuration files and scripts for our project ### 7. Dependable but minimal **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aryan S. | Editorial Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2023 **What do you like best about gedit?** It is a minimal no nonsense editor, syntax highlighting feature is a plus for coding **What do you dislike about gedit?** All the features are not visible at a glance, which makes it a bit difficult to mold according ro requirements **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Linux operating system and gedit is an accessible inbuilt text editor when compared to vim or emacs which are more complex and have a learning curve ### 8. GNOME based text editor with decent syntax highlighting **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Palash S. | Graduate Research Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about gedit?** decent syntax highlighting support for various programming languages and offers flexible plugins **What do you dislike about gedit?** often issues regarding file formatting and encoding and gets unstable while working with large files. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** mostly while editing scripts through the terminal, we use gedit. its terminal-based support allows us to edit and review scripts without a dedicated GUI. ### 9. Quick and Simple tool to edit files in Linux system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** We can quickly open files in the linux OS and edit the files. It provides find and replace that works very smoothly and fast. It is good for linux beginners who are not proficient with the vi editors. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Syntax highlighting seems me a big issue. Also not much support for shortcuts. Also, it lacks the support for good plugins because of that we can not extend the use of this. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I always work on Linux systems and there to edit files quickly I use gedit. Also using this I can create new files very easily and fast. And it is useful for taking notes quickly during meetings or calls. ### 10. Open source, less overhead and effective text editor for linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hemantharaju H. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** Ease of use, accessibility, feels like most other windows text editors, simple interface. It supports syntax highlighting for major programming languages such as C, C++, Python, and Java. Also supports spell checking, and highlights matching brackets. It's also available for Mac, windows but I've not used!. **What do you dislike about gedit?** There are very few plugins and shortcuts are almost non-existent. Syntax highlighting is not that effective as it doesn't work sometimes with python and c++. The autosave feature for files is not supported. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** As there are very few plugins, these can be considered to add in the future. Adding shortcuts would be a good feature addition. Syntax highlighting is can be made more effective in languages such as python and c++. The autosave feature for files can be a great addition. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mainly use this for text editing, to keep my notes during meetings, and workshops and to edit some config files in scripting/markup languages such as JSON, xml and HTML. I've also integrated this with Git. ### 11. Best lightweight open-sourced graphical text editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit is lightweight. It can work on text files with the same efficiency as command-line based editors. It is usually pre-installed with major Linux distributions, and that is because it IS the best! With a very simple and minimalistic UI, Gedit also handles large text files quite easily. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Gedit lacks the visual attractiveness that usually dominates the appeal. For example, the stock version of the software looks minimalistic with a basic set of color-scheme, but not all users would prefer that. Furthermore, customizing the themes is quite a task with Gedit, as compared to other text editors where they can switch the themes with a few keystrokes itself. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Use the extensive plugins library to make repetitive tasks easier **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Gedit mainly for editing plain text files because since a lot of distributions have Gedit pre-installed, it is quite easy to use it. Furthermore, Gedit also comes in handy when we have to query long files or just want to write a plaintext file as quickly as possible ### 12. Opensource Editor for linux users...! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Apoorv N. | Android Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** This editor is quite useful for users with programming background. Support for keybinding customizations is amazing. The UI is quite minimalistic and is a great substitute to notepad in ubuntu. **What do you dislike about gedit?** The features could have been much better in the application. CLI tools require better access to UI especially for linux OS. The developers behind this application should now focus on making it more feature-powered and comparable to Sublime Text and similar editors. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used gEdit in past for writting developer scripts and faster corrections in files for taking notes etc. ### 13. Easy to use editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit is a text editor which is very simple and easy to use. It has a very simple interface and comes as default with most linux distribution. This editor is also available in windows. I like the inserting date feature in this editor and use it a lot. It has auto-save enabled which is very helpful. **What do you dislike about gedit?** This isnt a good editor if you work with large files. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy and simple interface is very helpful. I feel this editor is very intutive which is the best part of it. ### 14. Editor which is very useful for linux users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** This editor is very useful when you are doing programming. IT supports syntax highlighting which makes coding much easier. Also, this editor supports keyboard shortcut customization which is very useful. The date and time insertion option is also good here. and data is auto-saved so that there is no fear of losing data that is present in the file in case of power failure. **What do you dislike about gedit?** As of now, I don't find anything to dislike about the awesome editor. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to see text much cleaner way which is copied from external sources like browsers. And useful for taking notes quickly during meetings or calls. ### 15. This is a great text editor for Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil B. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** It is simple and light to work. It is a perfect replacement for Notepad of Windows in Ubuntu. I use it to clean texts copied from the browser. It removes formatting and provides the plain that I require. The best thing about this is that it is simple, lightweight, and fast. It shows multiple files in tabs, making it even more impressive. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Nothing! It is the best lightweight text editor I was looking for. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me clean up copied texts from browsers. I often use it as a clipboard while working with multiple copy-paste operations. Other than that, it has helped me read through files. ### 16. Super fast and lightweight text editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** I like the syntax highlights, search and replace with regular expressions, and plugins for comparing files, everything works like a charm and you don't need any other editor for any of the task. **What do you dislike about gedit?** I do not think of anything at the moment, it is super efficient and I have opened 10 GigaByte Comma Separated (CSV) file and can do the search and replace without any lag or issues. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed a text editor that can do more than normal file operations to do my BAU tasks. With gedit I was able to improve the performance and most of my shell script and file editing time was saved by its fast speed. ### 17. Best text editor available in Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** GINNY G. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** GEdit is the alternative to notepad in Ubuntu. It provides all the basic functionalities which a text editor provides. One more advantage is that it is open source. **What do you dislike about gedit?** The UI is very basic and not modern. The fonts are not very convenient. Not many disadvantages are functionalities are minimal, thereby providing very minimal usage. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use GEdit to edit source files and text files in the Ubuntu operating system. In addition, we are using GEdit to store temporary information in a new file and quickly edit HTML files. ### 18. Easy to use and best editor on linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinivas D. | Senior Software Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** Its interface and easy-to-use options like highlighting the text, fast **What do you dislike about gedit?** There is nothing much so far experience is good **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syntax highlighting which helps while writing programs, supports different programming languagaes ### 19. The very basic editor **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varsha R. | Incident Response Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** It's basic and I think that's about it. It comes with a straightforward UI and works well when there is a need to quickly open files for editing from the command line and quick saving. **What do you dislike about gedit?** The functionalities could have been better. Command line tools require better access to UI especially for GUI based Linux OSes like Ubuntu. This would have been better if there was a shortcut or application as well that could be ported to other platforms and synced with terminals. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows easy integration with command line and terminal actions in Linux based systems and provides a GUI for editing, something that vim doesn't do. It increases efficiency and comfort. ### 20. My gedit experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** It's the default editor on my linux (ubuntu) workstation, it's very lightweight and easy to use software for editing files having code, other texts. **What do you dislike about gedit?** It's not as advanced as other editors like sublime text when it comes to editing code for specific programming languages like python. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** For faster corrections in files while I do software development and taking notes while I go through an online resource. ### 21. gedit best open source text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed T. | Cloud Administrator (AWS, GCP), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2021 **What do you like best about gedit?** open source, support multiple programming languages, lots plugins, themes **What do you dislike about gedit?** no autocomplete for programming languages **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** i use gedit to write a bash script and python script ### 22. The default Linux Text Editor, good enough as a daily for power users! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed A. | Staff Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2021 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit has a simple and easy-to-use interface. It's effortless to get used to and provides the standard features offered by any other text editor. It also includes a marketplace for 3rd party plugins that you can install. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Nothing, I liked everything about Gedit. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using Gedit daily for editing all kinds of text documents, like quick code changes, writing and editing scripts for deployment, and other activities. ### 23. One of the best text editor for Ubuntu **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about gedit?** I used this in ubuntu, which comes by default with the OS **What do you dislike about gedit?** Frequent crashes is something I don't like in gedit **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this as a text editor ### 24. Write genuine code. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evelyn T. | System Code, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about gedit?** I like to write and modify software code on Linux and Windows. Compatible with Python and Perl, exclusive and extensive code for greater control and security. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Writing code from different projects in the console consumes a lot of system resources. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Run program and correct security error. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do proofreading and write software with main security and user registry functions. ### 25. Simple Text Editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** tripti t. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** Another suitable component is of small length: it could run fast on both low-end PCs and excessive computing devices. This is good for customers who are more open to operating with GUI, rather than organizing mechanical line assemblies. It can work your code, or really cross as a spell checker. **What do you dislike about gedit?** I can't give an accurate explanation of why, but it also doesn't seem very polished, possibly due to the default font or inherited color alternatives. I discovered that gedit is a way too simple and I have strange default options. I also want there to be more git guidance and shading problems to make the code more readable and less difficult to navigate and manage versions. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Text editor integrated into Unix operating systems, for what it is, a simple text editor. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It includes my code and makes me more beneficial. It allows me to easily edit files, using the mouse. I also use it when I need to update sentences in a document, since it is easier to do it with VIM. ### 26. gedit review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ramneek k. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** It is easy to use, it is a good tool for searching and replacing, it has the auto saved for data security, it has the option to be able to edit how the text looks and you can search for spelling mistakes, use little memory and CPU and that allows read very large logs without major problem **What do you dislike about gedit?** There is nothing that upsets me since it is a staple in my day **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** The application is designed to work on X Window System, using the GTK + and GNOME libraries, has a clear and clean graphic interface and has a multi-language corrector **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to make from drafts for my emails, to my schedules that I get to do for some update of pages or the creation of others, it also allows me to save links of my work to have them all at hand, I also use it to save the main ideas that I get to have a project or job ### 27. Good Text Editor. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sreejith S. | System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit is a text editor, and I can also use it for coding, because Gedit support syntax highlighting , and that makes it more useful for coding. it also has all the other basic options like Goto Line ,find and replace. And I really like the option to insert the date and time that is a really good option. It also has a Spell checking feature that helps me check the words that I typed. I can also customise the keyboard shortcuts. And Gedit has a cross platform support, so we can install Gedit on Windows,Mac and Linux. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Opening a Folder in gedit is kinda tricky, and the only option is to open the entire file browser structure and find the folder from there. other than that I really like gedit as a text editor. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** If you are a Linux user then gedit comes preinstalled on your computer, so you don't have to install, but the installation is also very easy. and Its a good text editor , And gedit got a fast response when you open it. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Gedit as a Text Editor and also use it to write shell scripts when I use it on Linux, and I can run gedit as admin too , so when I edit system files gedit is really helpful. ### 28. Text and Code Editor. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jithin D. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit got all the text editor options and also syntax highlighting for code. I like the customisation options , we can change fonts and themes or we can just import a theme/colour scheme file.And Gedit got some nice tools that we can use like find and replace,grid, line numbers and goto line. One other thing that I really like is the keyboard shortcuts , I really like that I can customise the keyboard shortcuts as my needs. There are some plugins too that we can make it enable and use as some extra features in Gedit. **What do you dislike about gedit?** I noticed that there is no option to install plugins from online, and I expected some more colour schemes that we can choose from without importing new theme files. Other than that I liked how gedit works. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Gedit is really good for taking notes and for coding too, and its so easy to install and its always pre installed on Ubuntu OS. So if you don't already have it then, You should install it. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gedit is a good text editor to save code snippets. easy to open and type some code and we can change the syntax highlighting manually to that really convenient. and that made our work easier. ### 29. An editor for any occasion **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos G. | Encargado de redes sociales, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** It is easy to use, it is a good tool for search and replace, it has auto-save for data security, it has the option to edit how the text looks, and you can search for spelling mistakes, it uses little memory and CPU, and it allows you to read very large logs without major problems. **What do you dislike about gedit?** There is nothing that I dislike since it is a basic in my day **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** The application is designed to run on the X Window System, using the GTK+ and GNOME libraries. It has a clear and clean graphical interface and includes a multi-language spell checker. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to create drafts for my emails, as well as the schedules I make for any page updates or the creation of others. It also allows me to save links to my work to have them all at hand. I also use it to save the main ideas I come up with for any project or work. ### 30. Gedit your text editor that runs very well with Linux **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dorothy D. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** It is a good text editor that complements very well with Linux, has many notable features that make it excellent, such as: Undo redo. Revert files. Spelling correction Go to specific line. Text wrap. Current line highlighted. Configurable fonts and colors. Online user manual, etc. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Loading becomes very slow with large files and it takes a long time to respond. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** I recommend it, it's easy to install, compatible with Linux, Ubuntu and Windows, it's free. I use it with Linux and they complement each other very well. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thanks to this tool that consumes few resources, allows us to have several documents open, I can also take notes and add the date and time, so I can quickly locate them without any problem. ### 31. Good Text Editor. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Midhun M. | Tech Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** I like the option to insert date and time, and we can choose the format of the date , or we can add custom format type too. The option to change keyboard shortcuts is a really good feature and it helped me a lot. and gedit has find and replace, goto line and spelling check. I really like the option to change the theme and there are bunch of themes that we can choose from and i really like those themes, and we can also import other colour scheme files to gedit. And the quick open option let us open the recent files from history. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Can't install any plugins from online from the settings , we can only choose from what they already given. We can access a 'File browser' in gedit from the side panel, but there is no option to open just a folder in gedit. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Its really good for taking notes, and you can install gedit on Linux, Windows and Mac. and it works really good,and you can also code using gedit because it has syntax highlighting for lots of languages. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** gedit is really useful when it comes to taking notes, And with the date and time adding feature , I was able to take notes with current date and time and I save it, so all of my notes have the date and time of the note created. So that really helps me to find the date of a note easily. ### 32. Really good text Editor For Linux. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayakrishnan K. | PHP Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** This is the best editor for Linux, its easy to install and use. It can be also used as a code editor because we can open a project as a folder to Gedit and start editing , gedit has a good syntax highlighting too, so that makes it a good code editor. And gedit has find and replace, word wrap,line numbers and some plugins too. We can also change the look from the settings there are some theme options in the settings and we can also change the editors font style and size. **What do you dislike about gedit?** There is no option to install plugin from online, we can only choose from the plugins from the list they gave us. Its really hard to find the keyboard shortcuts for some functions and tools in gedit. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Linux users should try Gedit, because you can use it as a text editor or if you are a programmer , you can use it as a code editor too. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** To do dome quick edits of the codes , I use gedit, because gedit is so faster than some other editors. and I use gedit as a note saver too ### 33. using and knowing about gedit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai S. | DevOps Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** its was very easy to use. it was mainly supported for Linux, Ubuntu and windows . Mainly it was supported all programming languages like java ,C,C+,HTML etc for writing coding and configurable syntax highlighting.Its also supports configuration file for viewing and editing.And its very simple GU interface and simply access. mainly it was supported international-zed text .it having undo redo option are presented for get back or deleted text purpose.Its will supports colour fonts ,bracket matching and line numbers also presented for text/coding so we can easily identify the mistake/bugs in file. we can create empty files also using gedit . **What do you dislike about gedit?** In gedit text editor there is no attractive/effective GUI and all option like same as regular editors. There is no auto saving options. and its look like old tool editor. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** I recommend this editor my colleagues and its is free of cost and is to use . **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm resolving numbers off issues using gedit. Presently I was using machine Ubuntu machine so i want open and edit any file I using gedit only. i configure some servers configuration using gedit editor only ### 34. Text editor gedit **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesabel B. | Ingeniero DevOS, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** Another suitable component is of small length: it could run quickly both on low-end PCs and on high-performance computing devices. This is good for clients who are more open to operating with a GUI, rather than organizing mechanical line assemblies. You can run your code, or really cross over like a spell checker. **What do you dislike about gedit?** I can't give a precise explanation of why, but it also doesn't seem very polished, possibly due to the default font or inherited color alternatives. I found that gedit is too simple and I have strange default options. I also want there to be more guidance on git and shading issues to make the code more readable and less difficult to navigate and manage versions. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Integrated text editor in Unix operating systems, for what it is, a simple text editor. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Include my code and make me more beneficial, allow me to edit files easily, the use of the mouse. I also use it when I need to update phrases in a document, as it is easier to do with VIM. ### 35. Text files edit. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit j. | Software Engineer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** Edit text files easily and user friendly. It provide block highlight and find and replace feature. **What do you dislike about gedit?** It only provide support for text file edit. Except its best helpful in edit text files. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** If you want to edit text files with easily than its best suitable software. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Edit text files and block identification in text file is best part of it. ### 36. Gedit: The best rich text editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan M. | Dylan Miller, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit has some features that make it great. It includes syntax highlighting that allows to markup the different parts of the code files, that it's very useful to develop. But it also include the posibility of work with multiples tabs for editing simultaneous files or for example you can undo and redo along all changes that you do, not just the most recent. In general it's a very good rich text editor. **What do you dislike about gedit?** On the other hand, it is a very simple program, which does not have a lot of power to do certain tasks, such as working with third-party plugins, nor can you compare files side by side or compile from the same editor. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Gedit is a great text editor that includes a lot of advanced features that make it a powerful text editor. It's available for free in all Linux distributions. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** In general I use Gedit because it is a graphic text editor that meets my requirements. I usually develop code from it, as well as edit configuration files or the system files. ### 37. gedit its a good code editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriela P. | software developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** its really simple to use, have nice langauge to code and its accessible **What do you dislike about gedit?** the interface its to much simple and dont offers a lot of tools to code **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** its simple to use **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** develop in some program language ### 38. Simple and Convinent Editor **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** Simple and easy to call in ubuntu system **What do you dislike about gedit?** Not so good Gui. No support Not dynamic **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use to write programs when i dont to open heavy duty editors ### 39. Edit text files **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun S. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** Edit text files is great part of it. It support blocks in code. **What do you dislike about gedit?** It only support text files not video or audio files. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** If you want to edit text files easily that its best suitable for you. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Edit text files is best part of it in easily and user friendly. ### 40. Edit and manage files easily. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramnarayan R. | Sr. Android Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** Edit files easily and maintain it. Best software to edit files, maintainable. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Nothing except it handles only text files. It cannot support video etc. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Best software to edit files and manage them with ease. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** View and edit text files easily. Its best suitable if you are new in software learning. ### 41. Free cross-platform text editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran R. | PhD Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2019 **What do you like best about gedit?** - Easy to use - Pre-installed is most Linux/Unix/MacOS - Language support - Portability: Available in Windows/Linux/MacOS - Free **What do you dislike about gedit?** - Not many extensions - Not many hotkeys and hotkey customization available - Could be more customizable and powerful - Basically, an open-source version of notepad **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Simple and powerful text editor for MacOS, Linux and Windows. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Text editor, program editor, note taking ### 42. A must-have tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nacho G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit is a simple text editor that has gained popularity and is now the default graphical text editor in many distributions. It was originally exclusive to Gnome, hence the name, g-edit. It is simple but serves its purpose; it allows you to open any type of plain text file without issues, it is fast, and it has useful functions for searching within the text or replacing words. **What do you dislike about gedit?** As negative points, I find that it would be very useful to be in charge of making the indentation automatically according to the type of file; other similar applications do it without problems. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Gedit is very useful for quickly editing any type of text file. It is simple but easy to use and effective. It comes by default in almost all distributions. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gedit is a tool that is used for everything in day-to-day activities, as it is the default text viewer, so any file I open is with Gedit. ### 43. One of the best development environments **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paula T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** gEdit is a totally featured substance apparatus for Linux. Not at all like other substance altering instruments, for instance, nano and vim, gEdit gives you a magnificent and straightforward interface. This is ideal for customers who are more open to working with GUIs as opposed to arrange line mechanical assemblies. gEdit is adaptable, so it has features for the two originators and standard customers. It can highlight your code, or just go about as a spell-checker. **What do you dislike about gedit?** gEdit mimics various uncommon features of more master content altering instruments, it doesn't have the ability to set edges and plan the configuration. So it may not be sensible for making articles and such. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** I prescribe gedit to anyone who does not have to use VIM or another further created content administrator, or for any person who needs to make a specific discharge. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I'm creating code, I can open various tabs and bob transversely over different archives. It includes my code and causes me be more beneficial. For instance, I can look at the standard work in a program and after that open the header archive in another tab and analyze the other limit executions meanwhile. There's basically no basic strategy for doing this with nano or vim. ### 44. Good IDE for make quick changes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jose d. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** gEdit is a completely included content manager for Linux. Not at all like other content editing instruments, for example, nano and vim, gEdit gives you a delightful and easy to use interface. This is perfect for clients who are more open to working with GUIs instead of order line devices. gEdit is flexible, so it has highlights for the two engineers and standard clients. It can feature your code, or simply go about as a spell-checker. **What do you dislike about gedit?** While gEdit emulates numerous extraordinary highlights of more expert word processing instruments, it does not have the capacity to set edges and arrange the design. So it may not be reasonable for composing expositions and such. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** In case you're a product designer hoping to make speedy change to the code and examine existing code, gEdit is for you. Anyway there are better instruments accessible on the off chance that you are creating starting with no outside help. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I'm composing code, I can open numerous tabs and hop crosswise over various documents. It features my code and encourages me be more profitable. For example, I can take a gander at the primary capacity in a program and after that open the header document in another tab and examine the other capacity executions in the meantime. There's simply no simple method for doing this with nano or vim. ### 45. the best IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ainhoa M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** It is extremely simple to use for new client, Gedit is generalny preinstalled on any little person based work area so we dont need to do anyrhing to begin utilizing them. Other good thing is little size - it can run quick both on low end pc and top of the line work area. Proofreader has additionally punctuation featuring so can be easly used to programmig little applications. Module framework is extraordinary, client can expand capacity of editorial manager at whatever point he need. **What do you dislike about gedit?** Its not useful for gigantic activities, its difficult to deal with a bunches of records and organizers. Out of box its not coordinated with Git framework promotion doesnt have record list toolbar. Opening colossal records can is incomprehensible on the grounds that proofreader is endeavoring to stack everyrhing into RAM(vim can stack it with no issues even on low spec pcs). Its additionally producing refuse records with tilde at the finishes, client need to add section to gitignore or cripple it in settings. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Introduce heaps of module to broaden usefulness of editorial manager **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its free so I had not to purchased any permit. I can utilize it in business items and acquaint new clients with this program is quick ### 46. Gedit: an advanced text editor with much features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan T. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** Gedit is the typical plain text editor of Linux like Notepad is in Windows. Gedit has some features that normally you don't expect in a plain text editor: It has an advanced search and word replace, document statistics, syntax highlighting, that enable programming like in a IDE compatible with almost all languages. Other thing that matters for me is that works with tabs, it's basic. **What do you dislike about gedit?** As negative things, Gedit does not save a temporary file while you are writting, then if the computer stops sudentlly you lost all unsaved work. In a future versions, would be great an option to compile the codes from the same window of Gedit,. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** Gedit it's the best text editor for developers and normal users that needs a simple program to take notes. It works with all file formats, you can save in any format your files. Also it's available by default in all Linux systems. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Gedit to develop C++ programs from Ubuntu computer. It's perfect for me because I can develop with the code formatted with the correct spaces and a color schema applied to the code, that helps me to find errors and read the code easily. ### 47. Good program to do simple tasks **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna M. | Sysadmin, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** The best of Gedit is that it's always available and it's the default viewer in Linux systems. When you needs to modify some configuration files or read a log, Gedit it's a good option. It's very simple and easy to use and fore some tasks it's really efficient, for example to search patterns and replace words. **What do you dislike about gedit?** It's very simple and you can not pretend to do something special. There aren't much keyboard shortcuts and you needs mouse for do almost everything **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** It's a plain text editor that it's always available in your Linux to edit any text file. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use to read some system logs and to modify little parts of codes. Also I use it when I want to replace words in a document because it's easier than do it with VIM ### 48. The best if you seek simplicity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roberto V. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** gEdit is a fully equipped substance tool for Linux. Not at all like other substance alteration instruments, for example, nano and VIM, gEdit gives you a magnificent and straightforward interface. This is ideal for clients who are more open to working with forms rather than organizing mechanical line sets. gEdit is adaptable, so it has features for both originators and standard clients. You can highlight your code, or simply use it as a spell checker. **What do you dislike about gedit?** gEdit imitates several uncommon features of more advanced content editing tools, but it does not have the ability to set margins and plan the layout. Therefore, it may not be sensible for creating articles and such. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** I prescribe gedit to anyone who doesn't have to use Vim or another created content manager, or for anyone who needs to make a specific download. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I am creating code, I can open multiple tabs and move across different files. It includes my code and makes me more beneficial. For example, I can look at the standard work in a program and then open the header file in another tab and analyze the other boundary executions in the meantime. Basically, there is no basic strategy to do this with nano or VIM. ### 49. Good IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carmer N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** gEdit is a completely included substance mechanical assembly for Linux. Not in the least like other substance modifying instruments, for example, nano and vim, gEdit gives you a superb and clear interface. This is perfect for clients who are more open to working with GUIs rather than mastermind line mechanical congregations. gEdit is versatile, so it has highlights for the two originators and standard clients. It can feature your code, or simply go about as a spell-checker. **What do you dislike about gedit?** gEdit copies different phenomenal highlights of more ace substance adjusting instruments, it doesn't be able to set edges and plan the setup. So it may not be sensible for making articles and such. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** I endorse gedit to any individual who does not need to utilize VIM or another further made substance overseer, or for any individual who needs to make a particular release. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I'm making code, I can open different tabs and weave transversely over various chronicles. It incorporates my code and causes me be more useful. For example, I can take a gander at the standard work in a program and after that open the header chronicle in another tab and break down as far as possible executions in the interim. There's fundamentally no essential system for doing this with nano or vim. ### 50. Good text editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fatima D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2018 **What do you like best about gedit?** It is one of the best and easiest text editors to use for LINUX. This editor is the default when I use Ubuntu, and it has numerous built-in features like syntax highlighting for many languages. Many features can be modified on the fly, which can be useful for programmers who use different languages. It is free, as it is built-in by default. **What do you dislike about gedit?** All the features that gedit currently has are really good, but many features like a compiler, layouts, etc., can still be added. Gedit is too simple compared to advanced text editors or those for programmers. It is quite slow when loading large text files. **Recommendations to others considering gedit:** It is a good text editor that fulfills the basic functions we can perform. It may fall short for more advanced users like programmers, but for regular users, it is perfect. **What problems is gedit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic, fast, and efficient text editor. I can write many types of code like HTML, PHP, C, etc. It is really a great simple text editor. There is no need for more advanced text editors for beginners. 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