GEdit for Linux is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. It features support for internationalized text (UTF-8), configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others), Undo or Redo, editing files from remote locations, and file reverting.
Full Specifications
What's new in version 3.8
Version 3.8.0 has fixed some bugs and improvemed in docs.