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    <desc>A brief introduction to gedit.</desc>
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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jcampbell@gnome.org</email>
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    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Sindhu S</name>
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      <mal:name>Zander Brown</mal:name>
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      <mal:years>2020</mal:years>
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  <title>Get started with gedit</title>
  <p><app>gedit</app> is a full-featured text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. You can use it to prepare simple notes and documents, or you can use some of its advanced features, making it your own software development environment.</p>

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  <p>Once <app>gedit</app> launches, you can start writing right away. To save your text, just click the <gui>Save</gui> button in the <app>gedit</app> header bar.</p>

  <p>To learn about additional <app>gedit</app> features and to get assistance with performing additional tasks, explore <link xref="index">the other portions</link> of the <app>gedit</app> help.</p>

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