Sébastien Wilmet

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#gedit maintainer
Projecthttps://gedit-text-editor.org/
Lives inBelgium, Europe
Homepagehttps://wilmet-software.be/
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https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-12-17-mid-december-news.html

New #gedit blog post, with this time around:
* gedit now refuses to load very large files
* Windows improvements
* Other work in libgedit-gtksourceview
* gspell CI for tarballs

Mid-December News | Gedit Technology blog

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https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-11-14-mid-november-news.html

New #gedit blog post:
* Website: new design
* Enter TeX: improved search and replace
* Internal refactoring for GeditWindow and its statusbar

Mid-November News | Gedit Technology blog

A short news to announce that you can now donate to the #gedit text editor project!

https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-08-30-donating-to-the-gedit-project.html

Donating to the gedit project | Gedit Technology blog

@ploum It's the first time that I read about the reason of having developed gnome-shell and its different desktop UI paradigm. The Linux community doesn't talk a lot about it!

> In 2006, the German Linux Company SUSE had signed a patent agreement with Microsoft covering patents related to many Windows 95 concepts like the taskbar, the tray, the startmenu. SUSE was the biggest contributor to KDE and the agreement was covering the project. But Red Hat and GNOME refused [...]

https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-08-14-mid-august-news.html

A new #gedit blog post!

Topics this time around:
- Code Comment plugin rewritten
- File loading and saving: a new GtkSourceEncoding class
- Know more about the gedit's maintainer
- Robust file loading - some progress

Mid-August News | Gedit Technology blog

@DavidBlue Thank you 😃

@ildar Even if it's possible to write third-party/external plugins for gedit, it has never been a great experience for the developers of such plugins, and for users to install them.

The focus is more on the core of gedit and the default plugins that go with it.

So yeah, life goes on, I understand your point of view.

I hope gedit will still be a successful product for years to come. gedit is here for the long run.

Mid-July News | Gedit Technology blog

@rnb Il y a en effet un peu de turbulence pour le projet gedit en ce moment. Les plugins "officiels" ne seront plus en Python, mais il est possible que le support Python soit restauré pour les plugins tierces.

Voir ma réponse ici : https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/gedit/gedit/-/issues/618

Are Third party plugins still going to be a thing ? (#618) · Issues · World / gedit / gedit · GitLab

Hi, I read the post on removing Python plugin support, and can see this makes sense from a maintenance point of view. Are third party plugins...

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