mrbatcop
Well at a guess, because the developers of gedit decided not to support that feature as a core part of gedit and by definition plugins are optional, they exist as ways to customise your experience. If something is supported by way of an external plugin (not shipped with the program) then it should in my opinion remain optional.
To put it another way it would be like arguing Solus should should ship Firefox with the ublock origin, Stylus and multi-account containers addons because I personally think they are important features for a web browser.
My question would be to the gedit developers. Why is it not a core feature? (I actually wouldn't ask this because I don't care so long as there is a way to do what I want).
