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13 Plugins to Make Gedit a More Useful Text Editor

makeuseof.com — Gedit is the default text editor for most of the Linux distributions using Gnome as the desktop environment. As it turns out and as we shall see shortly Gedit supports plugins and there are some very useful plugins for Gedit.

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  • topgun553, on 01/25/2009, -3/+23I prefer doing my coding in MS Word 2007
  • emanonthespot, on 01/25/2009, -11/+20Or you could learn Vim and never look back.
  • Armor1901, on 01/25/2009, -5/+14FINALLY something useful instead of ANOTHER ***** post about Obama's first day, or what toilet paper Linus uses, or a damn link to a webcomic that we vist every day anyway
  • elfprince13, on 01/25/2009, -0/+7that's pretty cool, didn't know gedit actually supported plugins. I've always been a fan of Kate.
  • Kingoftherings, on 01/25/2009, -0/+6Awesome, downloaded three great plugins.
    Auto Tab
    Class Browser
    Tab Extend.
  • Drazzard, on 01/25/2009, -0/+5don't forget the terminal plugin. gives you a command line at the bottom of the window for quck compiling/file management. has to be downloaded from the repositories.
  • keyo, on 01/26/2009, -1/+6The kde4 version of kate is really good.
  • klitzbtc, on 01/25/2009, -0/+4wow I'm a noob, I've been doing php/python in gedit for years, and never once tried to install any plugins for it. great list.
  • eigenweasel, on 01/25/2009, -3/+7# rm `which gedit` && ln -s `which vim` ${dirname `which vim`}/gedit
  • Vadi0, on 01/25/2009, -0/+4Another good list (dated though): http://www.micahcarrick.com/09-29-2007/gedit-html- ...
  • klitzbtc, on 01/25/2009, -0/+3Let me add that the Python and Terminal plugin for the bottom pane is probably the best thing that's ever happened to text editing.
  • Peterix, on 01/25/2009, -0/+3Another blocked troll :)
  • subxero37, on 01/25/2009, -1/+4I want the ability to move my cursor past the end of a line of text. This effectively turns the document into a grid of characters. Microsoft's IDEs call it "virtual space", vi/vim can do it with ":set virtualedit=all", Kate has this option, and a few other editors have this ability, but not gedit, which is sad.

    Also, why are gedit's (GTK in general, actually) tabs so huge? It's relatively theme-dependent, but most GTK themes have god-awful tab controls.
  • DougVitale, on 01/26/2009, -0/+3Wow, great idea. Do you use Word Standard, Word Professional, Word Small Business, or Word Ultimate?
  • MattBD, on 01/25/2009, -1/+3Notepad? GTFO! Try Vim and you'll see what a real text editor is!
  • Kingoftherings, on 01/26/2009, -2/+4That would be the biggest nightmare ever.
  • Kris00001, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2How many of you have used bluefish or eclipse? What are the pros, and cons? of these two vs. gedit?
  • MattBD, on 01/25/2009, -0/+2Next version of Kate is supposed to support vi key bindings. I would like to see that in gedit too though...
  • Vadi0, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2So it's easy to click on them.

    I don't see a problem - there are minimal themes about if you want them.
  • Kris00001, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2Here's another question, how do you change the syntax highlighting in gedit? It's so ugly.
  • Myztry, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2Dugg for gedit. If you're learning Linux and need a familiar working text editor it's a good choice.
    You need to have the desktop working but otherwise it can be started from either the GUI or command line.
  • resonator, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1Does anyone know of a plugin that will allow collapsing/expanding of functions that supports PHP?
  • blakecraw, on 01/26/2009, -1/+2Oh oh I've got one:

    # rm `which gedit` && ln -s `which vim` ${dirname `which vim`}/gedit && rm `which vim` `which gedit` && ln -s `which emacs` ${dirname `emacs`}/vim && ln -s `which emacs` ${dirname `emacs`}/gedit
  • MattBD, on 01/25/2009, -2/+3Dugg for Vim - most awesome text editor ever! Every time I use it I learn something new about how to use it. It's awesome for Python coding.
  • resonator, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1I checked that before... it doesn't. :)
    According to http://www.geany.org/Support/PluginWishlist, it can be done with Snippets, but I cant see how.
  • kcap122, on 01/29/2009, -0/+1eclipse is really useful for unit testing and runtime debugging, including tracking memory useage by your program. However, everything needs to be set up perfectly in order for it to work. It's not that difficult though. It also has built-in support for automatic management of makefiles, making your life a lot easier if you have a project with a dozen header files, source files, and separate main routines. Oh yeah, and there's a terminal, and a compiler error-tracker that lets you step from one line with an error to the next with a single keystroke. In my experience, the c++ IDE is really useful.

    Haven't tried bluefish, though.
  • Vadi0, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1http://www.micahcarrick.com/09-29-2007/gedit-html- ... should list one.
  • yellowaeroplane, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1Hah, I just figured this one out myself.

    Go to edit -> preferences -> font & colors

    You'll see a list of color schemes (there are 4 on my machine). These change the highlighting. There's got to be a file somewhere containing the color scheme data, but I'm not sure where you'd find it.

    Anyways... I kind of like the default scheme, at least for PHP editing.

    To answer your question above, Bluefish and Eclipse are much more detailed programs. Gedit is just a plain text editor. For more customizable programs similar in functionality to Gedit, try either Kate or Notepad++ under Wine (it works perfectly).
  • Kris00001, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1+1 Yellowaeroplane. Thanks!
    I've always utilized Bluefish, Eclipse, and Notepad++ it just depended on where I was at. Kate is something that I've not tried yet, and I'm always interested in new tools. LOL.. So it looks like I'll be downloading that today.

    Also here's a list of font color schemes for Gedit that you can download.
    http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView/StyleSchemes
  • keyo, on 01/26/2009, -0/+1Kate : /
  • tackle, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1Vim is "OK" for smaller projects. At work, (where we work with 1000s of files) I tried my best to switch from SlickEdit to Vim (on Linux). After trying various plugins for several hours, I could still not get all the functionalities that SlickEdit offers out of the box. The only thing I hate about SlickEdit is the time it takes to load the first time it is opened (this might be due to a slow license server.. but I'm not sure). I hope they make it better in the next release.
  • radye, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1it's good.
  • ScottyMcBaggs, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1What functionality specifically? I use a mix of vim and komodo (w vim keybindings)
  • peestandingup, on 01/25/2009, -1/+1Just 13 huh?

    /s
  • theblt, on 01/25/2009, -2/+2Now to find the plugin that makes it function and look like Textmate...
  • MattBD, on 01/25/2009, -1/+1Vim does that...
    http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=13 ...
  • inactive, on 01/25/2009, -6/+1Reddit?
  • factsahoy, on 01/25/2009, -7/+0The term is "plug-in".
  • Armor1901, on 01/25/2009, -10/+3vi is HORRIBLE
  • mehan, on 01/25/2009, -16/+3#1. Notepad.

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