Going into the detail of the matter, I was reviewing the current news, among which I found the following note and that is the popular Gedit text editor is no longer supported leaving the project in abandonment.
Talking about Gedit, personally I think it's talking about an essential complement that is on almost any Linux distribution, this being the main text editor for many users, being more powerful and reliable than the classic Windows text editor.
Gedit
In a post to the Gedit mailing list The last month, GNOME developer Sébastien Wilmet shared some ideas on the areas that a responsible future should focus on:
I think a high priority problem is that there are no checks to see if a plugin is compatible with the Gedit version. Currently, enabling a plugin can cause Gedit to crash
Looking for a development team
In the Wiki from GNOME you can read that the project is "no longer maintained" and is "looking for new maintainers" and worse still, it is in the list of abandoned projects.
Not that it's an easy task for anyone approaching the role of maintainer, as Wilmet goes on to point out:
Whoever takes control of the maintenance will need to deal with 4 programming languages (not counting the structure system). Python code is not compiled, so when refactoring in Gedit core, good luck porting all plugins
Well, in the meantime it is still looking for a new support team, soon or not, so it still works well today and with GTK3 still stable, it should continue working for some time to start arriving with some problems.
We just have to wait, to know if we will have a support team and not see him die and be forgotten.
Now which one do we use
Kate! One of the best editors I've ever tried.
Personally, I mostly use Bluefish, even though gedit is still an excellent editor.
I suppose that most of the text editors like Pluma, Xed and others, who could be considered their children so to speak, will do what is necessary, even so this kind of news makes me feel old, ha ha ha ...