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 gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

 Maintainers: Paolo Maggi
 Homepage:    http://gedit.sourceforge.net/
 Family:      LinuxEditorFamily
 Platform:    Linux/Gnome?
 License:     Open source

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor. Currently it features:

Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
Undo/Redo?
Editing files from remote locations
File reverting
Print and print preview support
Clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
Search and replace
Go to specific line
Auto indentation
Text wrapping
Line numbers
Right margin
Current line highlighting
Bracket matching
Backup files
Configurable fonts and colors
A complete online user manual

gedit features also a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to gedit itself. See the plugins page for more info on the existing plugins.

 Screenshot: (GEdit showing UTF-8 support)