gedit is the offcial text editor of GNOME

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

Among others, it features full UTF-8 support, syntax highlighting and a powerful plugin system.

website: http://www.gedit.org

gedit 2.16.1 is a stable release and features the following changes:

- Remember the active page in the side and bottom panes (Paolo Borelli)
- Fix spinner with some themes (Christian Persch)
- Some fixes to the file saving code (Alexander Larsson)
- Filebrowser plugin fixes (Jesse van den Kieboom)
- Updated translations (nn, en_GB, fi, et, cs, ca, vi, dz)

download:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.16/gedit-2.16.1.tar.gz