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Gedit Review

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2006-06-12 06:49. Bag of Software

Softpedia.com has a nice review of the basic gnome Text Editor.

My Fedora 5 just crashed after I updated it last night. I just installed the basic applications, and at this point I realized that software that's part of the daily use of almost anyone was never reviewed.

Such software is Gedit. It's the official text editor for the GNOME desktop environment and almost any ASCII file is opened with it when we use GNOME. It's a big possibility you didn't notice it because the attention was focused on the contents and not at all on the editor. I hope a review will be useful for letting you know what you can do with it.

gEdit is the hidden gem of GNOME

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-06-14 23:09.

gEdit is the hidden gem of GNOME. I love the way gEdit has all the necessary highlighting for whatever I edit, be in Java, html, CSS or just plain text (no highlighting needed for this though). gEdit is small and works great on any system I have.

I haven't programmed anything in Java for over 3 years and just the other day I installed Xubuntu. Not having any default text editor I decided to install gEdit because I remember editing a CSS file on Hoary a while back. Once I started writing up some code, I actually wanted to write more and more. I don't like big clunky IDE's so I like the lightweight of gEdit.

gEdit + terminal is a great combination.

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