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The auto-save feature in GEdit vs the new GNOME Text Editor

I recently compared GEdit’s auto-save to Kate’s swap-save feature. Both features try to achieve the same goal — to protect your unsaved work from power failures and crashes — but through different means.

The new GNOME 42 release replaces GEdit with GNOME Text Editor (GTE) as the recommended default text editor. GTEdit also has a feature like Kate’s swap-save, so I thought I’d revisit the topic.

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