gedit is not available for Xfce but there are a few alternatives with similar functionality. The best Xfce alternative is SciTE, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to gedit and four of them are available for Xfce so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Xfce alternatives to gedit are Mousepad, medit and MadEdit.
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...
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A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.
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Lightweight open-source text editor featuring syntax highlighting for many languages, tabbed interface, customizable keyboard shortcuts, plugin and macro support, configurable color schemes, find and replace with regex, and cross-platform compatibility for programming or general use.
MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.
