gedit is an easy-to-use and general-purpose text editor. Its
development started in 1998, at the beginnings of the
GNOME project, with a good
integration with that desktop environment.
You can use it to write simple notes and documents, or you can enable more
advanced features that are useful for software development.
Once gedit launches, you can start writing right away. To save
your text, just click the Save button in the gedit
header bar.