gedit roadmap - done tasks
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Documentation for contributors
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Write a guide to get started with gedit development.

Done during the GNOME 3.34 development cycle.

Tepl-ification of the gedit core
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- gedit 3.36:
	- Start to use the Tepl library.
	- Use some Tepl utility functions.
	- Use TeplFileMetadata, remove GeditMetadataManager.
- gedit 3.38:
	- Move some utility functions to the Tepl library.
	- Refactor and move some I/O error infobars to Tepl.
	- GeditView now inherits from TeplView.
	- Port to the new Tepl metadata API.
	- Use TeplStyleSchemeChooserWidget in the preferences dialog.
	- Create GeditFactory class, subclass of TeplAbstractFactory.
- gedit 40:
	- Use `tepl_pango_font_description_to_css()`.
	- Use TeplLanguageChooser's, for choosing a language for the syntax
	  highlighting. Remove GeditHighlightModeSelector and
	  GeditHighlightModeDialog.
	- Use TeplProgressInfoBar. Remove GeditProgressInfoBar.
	- GeditDocument now inherits from TeplBuffer, start to use the
	  TeplBuffer and TeplFile APIs.

Tepl-ification of the gedit plugins
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- gedit 40:
	- Draw Spaces plugin: new implementation based on TeplSpaceDrawerPrefs.

Other done tasks in gedit plugins
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- gedit 40:
	- Smart Spaces plugin: new implementation based on a GtkSourceView feature.

New version of gedit on Windows
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gedit is available in [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/). The integration with
Windows is not perfect, but it mostly works.