On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> Per Starbäck wrote:
>
> > I have always thought of GNU Emacs as *the* editor in GNU, that is the
> > default editor. Do you think a GNU system ideally instead should have
> > some other ("simple") editor as the default editor?
>
> If GNU has a default editor, I guess it is the default GNOME one, gedit.
> It advertises itself as "aiming at simplicity and ease of use".
>
>
Why was gedit developed? It looks advanced to me. (I have never used it.)
Why was not Emacs used as a basis for gedit?