Gnome's Text Editor, Gedit: A TextMate-like Editor for Linux
The humble Gnome editor is often compared to Windows notepad app. A simple editor with minimal features that is pathetic for anything else. Not true!
The truth is that I use gedit for programming in Ubuntu at least as often as I boot up Eclipse. So there! There are times you want a heavy IDE, and times you need a lightweight editor that starts in a second and takes less than five minutes to open a file. I've always liked to avoid IDEs when I can because I find them a chore to use for anything but a few bigger applications where their awesomeness is actually awesome and not just tedious. Mostly they tend to be slow and cumbersome, and this is made worse when you're running inside a small virtualised OS. Gedit on the other hand is about as unassuming as you could wish for - small, fast, stable and customisable with plugins if you know Python or C (or can download third party plugins ).
Gedit can, with a little work, become an excellent source code editor. It's main advantage is its plugin system which allows for some really great customisations that allow gedit to appear and act more like Mac OS's TextMate (which presumably is a good thing). Let there be no mistake, I love gedit. I've been tempted into trying alternatives, but gedit seems to suit a need for simplicity in my programming life where I spend all my time using the Gnome desktop.
To get us started here's a quick video showing a plugged and styled gedit in action.
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