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Gedit Review

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

keyboard shortcuts

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Fri, 2006-06-16 10:02.

Thanks for the tip. Is there documentation somewhere for these shortcuts?

I think keyboard shortcuts are useful, and do not conflict with the goal of gedit being for beginners and average users. There is no reason to have them adhere to emacs or vi shortcuts. I just used emacs as an example.

By the way, the reason I asked in the first place was that I find gedit quite useful for casual editing tasks, and have pretty much moved over to it rather than emacs for most script editing that I do. It's a well thought out program.

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