In Defence Of Gedit · The Kernal
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Gedit, the GTK text editor that was first released 23 years ago, has been replaced in the newest version of GNOME; dropped for the new Libadwiata ‘Gnome Text Editor’. And, while Gedit is often made the butt of the joke by Vim and Emacs users, it is more alike then you’d think. Gedit is an amazing, extensible text editor that is packed full of features. So, I’ve been giving it a try. And I’m going to explain what makes Gedit so good, with the hope that maybe you’ll take it more seriously.
  • octt
    10·
    3 years ago

    The new GNOME text editor is cool but lacks many features I need

    My trial of it went like this:
    > Upgraded to Fedora 36
    > “wow new text editor?”
    > See it lacks features like extensions, also the option to use tabs instead of spaces doesn’t seem to work
    > Uninstall it and install gedit…

    I hope the new editor catches up to gedit ASAP, because I like it aesthetically