Gedit, the GTK text editor that was first released 23 years ago, has been replaced in the newest version of GNOME; dropped for the new Libadwiata ‘Gnome Text Editor’. And, while Gedit is often made the but of the joke by Vim and Emacs users, it is more alike then you’d think. Gedit is an amazing, extensible text editor that is packed full of features. So, I’ve been giving it a try. And I’m going to explain what makes Gedit so good, with the hope that maybe you’ll take it more seriously.