It is called "Text editor" in the FC4 Gnome menus. But you call it by "gedit" in a terminal.

Oh, so it's gnome's editor. Ok well that explains why I don't have it then :D I'm using KDE. So I assume it's pertty much same kind of editro that kedit is then...

If you happy with vi I'd stick with that. If you get too used to these newer editors and then one day get dumped out to a command line with no X it could make if difficult to edit and files to get X back, as vi is great for command line editting :)

Neil.

[QUOTE=newbie_fin]Oh, so it's gnome's editor. Ok well that explains why I don't have it then :D I'm using KDE. So I assume it's pertty much same kind of editro that kedit is then...[/QUOTE]
No, you don't need it. Stick with vim if you have already used it because that is one editor that is always available on any Linux or Unix system...

Ok so I'll stick to what I think suits for the purpose if that gedit isn't something super special... ty all for you replys.

vim is great, but if you are not used to, or don't like the line-driven interface, it's not very friendly. In fact I would go on to say it is very unfriendly. Don't get me wrong, I know it is very powerful, and almost ubiquitous, and yes I do like the way it handles Regexs, but I find it awkward to use at best.

For terminal based editing, I suggest nano for GNU systems, and pico where pine is installed. In my experience, that covers the vast majority of Linux and academic Unix systems. Emacs is almost always installed too.

In X, may I reccommend kate? Lots of features, regex support, has a terminal built in, and keeps its list of files in a much tidier way than tabs. Obviously xemacs is a very popular choice, and it is worth getting to know the basics of emacs/xemacs too - very powerful, but friendlier than vi/vim, partly because there's a tutorial and help reference built in.

If you are desperate, well you can always cat > myfile
LOL

Well I think cat is pertty good if you need only see what some small file contains...
well anyway I don't really like emacs or it's variants... vim is ok for some situations and kate is good for general programming.
The point of this thread was to inquire about gedit... and I pretty much got that straight now. So I'll probably won't be replying to messages... ofcourse nothing stops you form posting your views of linux editors...
Thanks to everyone for their replys. Your all been very helpfull.

personally I think gedit is great, but if you dont want to there are alternatives, like cat.
fyi,
cat filename | less
will display it bits at a time. Or, if you want to search, use
cat filename | grep 'STRING'
Firewing1

Is there an editor that can work with columns? I mean to select vertically columns of data in fixed positions, like the old Xedit

OpenOffice.org :)
Firewing1

Yeah, Calc, you're right

You could also try out "mc", or Midnight Commander of Norton Commander fame. Works great....