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gedit is a general purpose and powerful text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

gedit is an UTF-8 compatible editing tool that emphasizes flexibility and ease of use. gedit is open-source software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Customized gedit with the GMate plug-in package enabled running in Ubuntu 10.10

Features

  • Full support for UTF-8 (internationalized text).
  • Syntax highlighting for most popular languages (C/C++, Java, HTML, Python, Perl, and others).
  • Flexible plug-in system.
  • Tabs and multi-window editing capability.
  • Line numbering, bracket matching, text wrapping, current line highlighting, automatic indentation and automatic file backup.
  • Multi-language spell checking.

Available Plug-ins

gedit comes with a few prepackaged plug-ins. Additional plug-ins are distributed online and can be found on GNOME's gedit page. GMate, a package that enables Textmate-like features is also available through the Github repository for GMate.

Resources

Official gedit website

gedit for Windows

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Run gedit on OSX Mavericks?

The Version of Gedit on the gnome.org site does not seem to run on OSX Mavericks. Is there any way to fix this?
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Highlight BOTH matching braces into Gedit

Any way to highlight both braces on Gedit?, it's annoying when you have several braces joined and is not clear which one are you pointing. Highlighting both braces would be a simple solution to know exactly what are the starting and ending…
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gedit underscore as a word_character

Is it possible to configure gedit to treat the underscore character as a word character? Currently, it appears that the editor treats "two_words" as two separate words when selecting, instead of a single word as in many other mainstream text…
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linux gedit: I always get "GConf Error: failed to contact configuration server ..."

How come I always get "GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for…
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Word wrap in gedit

I am using gedit & I have a very huge line and I am not able to see that complete line because gedit gets stucking. so, I wanted to do word wrapping in gedit. I searched but I didnt found word wrap option in gedit. How I can do wrapping in gedit?
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Can I gedit something in Mac's Terminal

When I was using a Linux laptop as my dev machine, I used to do "gedit xxxx" in a Terminal. Now I just switched to MacBook, I d like to do the same thing. I know that I can open gedit in a command line like "open gedit", but can I add the file name?…
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is there any plugin to use git on gedit on ubuntu?

i would like to use a git plugin while coding on gedit. i mean by that buttons for commit or shortcuts. thank you.
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Why do gedit and vim hide the final newline from the user?

Let's assume we have two text documents: Our first file contains "hi" as text. Our second file contains "hi" as text. When we open these two files in gedit, vi, or vim, the two files are visually identical in every way. However, when we run xxd on…
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Gedit in Windows creates multiple instances

I installed the latest version (2.30.1) of Gedit for Windows. And whenever I open files from explorer with gedit, it won't open as tabs in the current instance, instead it opens a new window for each file, like a notepad. I do not like this…
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Gedit Zen Coding Plugin

I've tried multiple times to install the Zen Coding plugin for Gedit in Ubuntu 11.10. (I have all the latest updates installed.) I know I'm doing it correctly because I've done it on other installations with no problem but for some reason it doesn't…
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Gedit plugin development in Python

Does anyone know where information about writing gedit plugins can be found? I'm interested in writing them in Python. I know of Gedit/PythonPluginHowTo, but it isn't very good. Besides the code of writing a plugin that does nothing, I can't seem to…
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How to check if a file is opened in Linux?

The thing is, I want to track if a user tries to open a file on a shared account. I'm looking for any record/technique that helps me know if the concerned file is opened, at run time. I want to create a script which monitors if the file is open, and…
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gedit syntax highlighting for assembler files (*.asm)

By default, gedit doesn't syntax highlight .asm files. How can I add this support for this language?
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How can I produce a nice output of a numpy matrix?

I currently have the following snippet: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import numpy from numpy import linalg A = [[1,2,47,11],[3,2,8,15],[0,0,3,1],[0,0,8,1]] S = [[113,49,2,283],[-113,0,3,359],[0,5,0,6],[0,20,0,12]] A =…
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Syntax Highlighting: How Does Eclipse Do It So Fast?

I've developed a syntax highlighter in Java for Android and it's working well, but the problem is it can be slow with big files. So I'm wondering how source code editors like Eclipse and Gedit (Ubuntu) highlight what you've just wrote so quickly.…
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