GNOME Text Editor is the default text editor for the

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. The program is a

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graphical

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included as part of the

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. GNOME Text Editor has been the default text editor for GNOME since GNOME version 42, which was released in March 2022. GNOME Text Editor replaces

gedit gedit ( or ) is a text editor designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It was GNOME's default text editor and part of the GNOME Core Applications until GNOME version 42 in March 2022, which changed the default text editor to GNOME Text Edi ...

as GNOME's default text editor, and was created due to the GNOME developers' intention of having all of their programs comply with the

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(HIG). The adherence to their HIG is done by using the

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library, and making gedit compliant with that would have required an extensive rewrite of gedit's code, so a new program was written from scratch instead. GNOME Text Editor was created by

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's creator Christian Hergert. The program was officially announced in March 2021 via a blog post by Hergert. The text editor is built using the Adwaita design language and GTK 4. The text editor has features including themes,

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, session restoration,

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, the ability to zoom into text without changing the text's size, custom font support, and opening files can be done via a

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box.

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replaced gedit, the text editor that had been Ubuntu's default text editor since 2004, with GNOME Text Editor in Ubuntu 22.10, citing Text Editor's adherence to desktop standards like dark mode and other GNOME design standards.

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s that use GNOME 42 have also replaced gedit with GNOME Text Editor, including

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36.

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* {{GNOME Free text editors GNOME Core Applications Linux text editors Notepad replacements Software using the GNU General Public License