There’s also support for the ‘Document Statistics’ plug-in, which lets you keep the file to an acceptable size. It provides you with information about the number of characters, words, lines, and bytes. While all these features are useful, the best thing about gedit is the simple ...
Gedit is officially known as the “Gnome text editor” but there are Windows and Macintosh ports of gEdit. You can even find it as part of non-Gnome Distros like Ubuntu 11.10 Unity or you can find it in many Distro Software repository. In 2006 when I was running my first laptop on Xub...
To open at a specific line number, useful when an error message includes the line number, include "+<line number>". (gksudois used in this example since the file is a system file owned by root): gksudo gedit +21 /etc/apt/sources.list ...
For example, I added a new snippet foradding a Markdown tableand assigned a keyboard shortcut and tab trigger to it (as seen in the above image). Now, if I pressCTRL + Alt + Sin a Markdown document, a table is added. Alternatively, typingtableand pressing the TAB key also adds the...
Another way to pass a target file is to write anargs.jsonfile in the same directory as vgedit. For example, to opentest.txt: {"filename":"sd:/path/to/test.txt","callback":"sd:/switch/the_caller.nro"} An optional callback can be specified, which will be launched when vgedit exi...
Allows configuration of mouse-click text selections. Any regex-defined text selection can be assigned to a single-click, double-click, triple-click, quadruple-click, or quintuple-click. So, for example, you can set it to select a name with underscores with a double-click.Download:http://cod...
For example, there is this specification of GtkTextIter, which is a component of GtkTextView providing text manipulation. In it, sentence navigation gets mentioned. Unfortunately, key-bindings for these sentence functions are nowhere to be found… Finally, I did not include published shortcuts ...
The above process has all images linked by a valid method using relative path names to an image in the multimedia folder. If the software you use does not find any multimedia objects either that software simple does not support importing multimedia objects (which is common) or it does not ...
To be a good graphic designer, you must be adept at using the profession's tools, which for most designers today are the ones in the proprietary Adobe Creative Suite. However, there are times that open source tools will get you out of a jam. For example, imagine you're a commercial pr...
An excellent place to start is the official Gnome plugins page. In this example, you’ll install the Code Folding plugin, which is unavailable in the Ubuntu repositories. This plugin helps you better organize your code by allowing you to collapse code blocks. 1. First, create a directory to...