When comparing Notepad2-mod vs Gedit, the Slant community recommends Notepad2-mod for most people. In the question“What are the best simple text editors for Windows?” Notepad2-mod is ranked 7th while Gedit is ranked 21st.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can replace Windows Notepad
Pro Simple and fast
Pro Code folding
Pro Syntax highlighting
Supports more languages than the original Notepad2.
Pro Plugins allow for added functionality and customization
There are tons of plugins for productivity available in many different workflows, such as a dictation plugin, an encryption add-on, a whitespace remover, and more.
Pro Great UI
The UI is lean and minimal. Everything feels quite fast and it is easy to add custom shortcuts for doing things like compiling, deploying, or testing.
Pro Available on all systems that use Gnome
Gedit is the official text editor for Gnome and it's available wherever any version of Gnome is installed. With thousands of people using it daily and not even realizing it.
Cons
Con Certain useful features are missing
No multi-caret.
Markdown syntax colouring for headers, quotes, etc. only styles the character, not the line.
Con Last line bug
Sometimes the last line of text is not visible.
Con Confusing interface
For example, finding anything in the settings menu is hard. Most other text editors use Edit->Preferences for managing settings but this is not the case for Gedit.
Con Faster than Atom but Slower than Geany
Not bad editor. Very similar to Geany, but Geany works faster and has more features.
Con Not a lot of features
Gedit is a text editor. Though it's simple and fast, it misses a lot of features, most notably auto-complete for several languages.