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Softpedia: gedit Review

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 14, 2006

“My Fedora 5 just crashed after I updated it last night. I just
installed the basic applications, and at this point I realized that
software that’s part of the daily use of almost anyone was never
reviewed.

“Such software is gedit. It’s the official text editor for the
GNOME desktop environment and almost any ASCII file is opened with
it when we use GNOME. It’s a big possibility you didn’t notice it
because the attention was focused on the contents and not at all on
the editor. I hope a review will be useful for letting you know
what you can do with it…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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