Running Ubuntu "gedit" instead of Ubuntu-Mate "gedit"

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Running Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome classic and just installed ubuntu-mate-desktop.
While this supports a lot of things that I like which has been removed from
Gnome 3, The ubuntu-mate "gedit" seems to be really barebone.
Is there a way to use the Ubuntu version instead?

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Ubuntu Desktop contained the gedit editor; a legacy version of the GNOME text editor, as it uses a GNOME desktop. (My past tense is because its no longer the default GNOME text editor)

The MATE desktop uses the pluma text editor; which yes is extremely similar as it started as a fork of the GNOME text editor back from GNOME2 days.

I'm a lover of my multi-desktop environments, where I have multiple desktops installed & select which I'll use for the session when I login. I just start the editor I want via name...

  • gedit would of course start gedit or that old GNOME text editor
  • pluma would of course start pluma or the MATE text editor

(I'm on lunar or the development release, and my box hasn't got gedit installed as it's no longer a default having been replaced in GNOME; my system has gnome-text-editor instead. Have you tried searching by name?)

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If all you want to know is how to install gedit so you can use it instead of pluma, you can use one of these two commands in a terminal:

sudo snap install gedit

or

sudo apt install gedit

The first installs the Snap package. The second installs the deb package.

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