Gedit page on the Ubuntu help wiki.

In gnome what is the standard text editor. - DESCRIPTION gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. There are two types of text editors in Linux. Both Vi and Nano are unusable with GNOMEs touch keyboard as Vi requires the Esc key and Nano requires the Ctrl key neither of which are available on GNOMEs touch.

Sudo update-alternatives --config editor This command show you the text editors. Gedit project home page. Gnome Shell unlike KDE Plasma 5 does not have a built-in program shortcut editor.

To know that is the default command line text editor in your system you can try one of the following methods. It supports syntax highlighting printing a variety of plug-ins multi-language spell check tabbed for multiple files etc. Since I am constantly writing and modifying config files and programming in scripting languages I decided to try the programmers text editor.

And of course it is. Aiming at simplicity by default can be configured as full fledged integrated development environment through various plugins provided by gedit-plugins package. While its a joke ed.

This is the default text editor for the Linux Gnome desktop. Sure I could open. The one you are using has the in front.

Luckily theres a very nice GUI program called Dconf-editor that allows you to list all the possible configuration keys in the system and edit them easily. It can be used to create and edit all kinds of text files. In spite of being commonly considered rock-solid and often used as a base for testing Gtk support in general since it is mostly fail-proof the user experience and interface may look slightly outdated at times and it has severe issues with handling large text files.