You can also change the case of selected text, or sort lines and columns, removing duplicates as you go. If you are concerned about length, Document Statistics will give you a breakdown of your document in lines, words, characters, and bytes. One of the plugins that is enabled by default in most distributions is Spell Check, which includes an autocheck option. If you are producing plain or HTML text, other plugins help make Gedit as useful for you as it is for a developer. External Tools installs with several presets, including Build, Remove trailing spaces, and Run command, and you can extend the plugin with your own customizations, specifying not only commands, but the shortcut keys to activate them, and where input and output display, such as the Shell Output tab in Gedit’s bottom pane. In the Tools menu, developers can also customize External Tools. Developers, writers, and third partiesĪs you might expect, several plugins are aimed at developers, such as Bracket Completion, Comment Code, Join/Split Lines, and Indent Lines, all of which are available as items in the Edit menu.
Manage Snippets installs with dozens of snippets, mostly for coders, but you can also add your own if you are using Gedit for other purposes, such as typing plain text. Even more elaborately, you can go to Tools -> Manage Snippets to create autotext for insertion, or to add a keyboard shortcut that will enter the snippet without your having to type it out in full.
From the Edit menu, you can use Insert User Name to add the name of the current account at the cursor’s position, or Insert Date and Time to add information in either one of several dozen standard formats or in a custom one of your own choosing. You can also use Tag list to add a display of markup tags to the side pane that range from HTML and XHTML to LaTeX and XUL into the current document conveniently, you toggle a Preview pane in the side bar as well, to check that you have chosen the correct tag.īesides Character map and Tag list, several other plugins are useful for automatic insertions. Similarly, the Character map plugin squeezes a choice of language and a table of special characters into the side pane, although, since the table has only five glyphs per row, you need to be prepared to do some scrolling. File Browser adds a cramped but serviceable directory tree to the side pane. Two of the most visible add tabs to the bottom pane: Python Console, which helps convert Gedit into a Python development environment, and Embedded Terminal, which adds an instance of the GNOME Terminal, complete with all your modifications. The plugins you are likely to notice first are those that enhance the interface. The Edit and Tools menus are likely places, but you may need to check every option in the View menu before you can find some plugins.
Some plugins will be visible immediately because they make a change to the editing window, but you will need to search for others. Regardless of how you get a Gedit plugin, you need to enable it in Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins and restart Gedit before you can use it. Still others are unofficial and available separately, and you must add them to the ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins directory in your home directory. Others are available in the Gedit-Plugins package carried by many distributions. Some Gedit plugins come standard in Gedit, although your distribution may not enable them by default.
#Gedit plugins code#
Many of these plugins make only small alterations by themselves, but enable a dozen or more and you’ll find Gedit transformed almost out of recognition, regardless of whether you are using it to write code or plain text. The difference is the plugins that each distribution packages with Gedit and enables by default. For instance, in Debian, Gedit is a relatively simple text edit, while in Ubuntu, it sprouts features that Debian users may never have seen. If you drift between distributions, one of the first things you might notice is that Gedit, GNOME’s text editor, is not always the same on each system.
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