Gnome appears to have removed the default application (per-filetype) selection from Nautilus’ ‘open with’ context menu and in settings > ‘default applications’ there’s no category for text editor. I currently prefer using a third-party editor and gedit is still opened seemingly at random, even for plaintext text files without a file extension on my system.
Sure, I could open everything from terminal, but I’m not ready to drop GUI yet. If I uninstalled gedit I may break my OS installation:
Removing:
gedit x86_64 2:3.36.2-1.fc32 @updates 14 M
Removing unused dependencies:
amtk x86_64 5.0.2-2.fc32 @anaconda 135 k
gtksourceview4 x86_64 4.6.1-1.fc32 @updates 4.6 M
libpeas-loader-python3 x86_64 1.26.0-1.fc32 @anaconda 32 k
tepl x86_64 4.4.0-1.fc32 @anaconda 399 k
Gnome 3.36.5