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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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How to make Gedit look like Textmate?

I want to make Gedit look like Textmate, and act like it too. I have read many tutorials on the net, but can't find an easy to follow guide. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and would like to use it for Ruby on Rails and other web languages. I want only the…
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Github syntax highlight style scheme for Gedit?

I like the syntax highlight style scheme used for R scripts in github and I would like to get it to my gedit editor. Where could I get it?
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Collapsable code in gedit

How to collapse a function , class , or method in gedit. i managed to install all plugins for gedit , but unable to find any plugin for the same.
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How to to build src from a CygPort?

I have a question about the structure of the source code from a cygport package. Here is the contents of a Cygports source file: the actual source bundle for the project (tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc.) the any number of *.patch files. a .cygport file I am…
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UTF32 and C# problems

So I've got some troubles with character encoding. When I put the following two characters into a UTF32 encoded text file: 鸕 and then run this code on them: System.IO.StreamReader streamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader("input",…
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Gedit - External Tools specify Current file

How do I specify the placeholder for the current in Gedit's manage external tools. For example if I want this in my external tools what should i use? perl -d:ptkdb my_current_file.pl pertidy my_current_file.pl
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Highlight all matching words on double click in gedit

IDEs like Eclipse, CodeBlocks and editors like Notepad++ highlights all instances of a double clicked word. I miss this feature in gedit. Of course, I can do Ctrl+k to highlight all instanced, but it is weird. Is there anyway this feature can be…
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How do I follow python PEP8 regarding line breaks, and how important is it?

I am writing in python 3.5.1 and I am a programming novice. I use gedit with a pep8 and pyflakes plugins showing style mistakes according to the python style guide. I do not know whether to follow the style recommendation to the letter or not. I…
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gedit plugin error - plugin loader 'python3' was not found

I tried to add some plugins in gedit 3.10.4 on ubuntu 14.04LTS and some errors occured when I try to activate those plugins in gedit: (gedit:20686): libpeas-WARNING **: Error initializing Python Plugin Loader: PyGObject initialization failed …
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Change default text editor in fedora 20 kde

I have always been a fan of Gedit in Linux as my default text editor. How do I make it the defualt in Fedora 20 kde. I know that it is so in Gnome but I want the same in KDE. Is there a way?
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Python run shortcut in GEdit

I'd like a shortcut key for GEdit that will run the currently open .py file when I press, say, F5. I have a script that does this via an external Terminal window, but I'm having more trouble creating a version that uses the internal output window…
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I'm trying to run gedit in cygwin, but receiving error

I'm trying to run some normal text editor in cygwin (version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3)). I've really disappointed and frustrated with emacs :( So I downloaded and installed gedit as a part of cygwin package, but when I'm trying to run it, I receive: $…
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GEdit/Python execution plugin?

I'm just starting out learning python with GEdit plus various plugins as my IDE. Visual Studio/F# has a feature which permits the highlighting on a piece of text in the code window which then, on a keypress, gets executed in the F# console. Is…
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Text editing - insert comments (#) in Ubuntu with gedit or other text editor

I am programming in a dedicated language called macro language. To comment I need to add # at the beginning of the line. What I want is, in order to spare time, to comment several lines of code at same time with gedit or other program (gedit is nice…
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Detecting end of input using std::getline

I have a code with the following snippet: std::string input; while(std::getline(std::cin, input)) { //some read only processing with input } When I run the program code, I redirect stdin input through the file in.txt (which was created using…
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