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Or use Kate instead :)

Doesn't that pull in all the KDE libraries in the process, if the rest of the software you use is built around GTK?

The GNOME Editor is hardly a good place from which to cast such criticism, though. Gedit pulls in a whole load of entire external Desktop Bus services in order to work, and indeed a second Desktop Bus, not only some shared libraries inside the editor process. Moreover, that editor process isn't the one that one might naïvely think it to be.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056252

I'm making the assumption that most people who'd be using gedit are already running Gnome anyhow, and would already have all that stuff pulled in.

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