gedit is a lightweight editing tool for the GNOME desktop found in many distributions of Linux, BSD and other Unix systems.
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Custom gedit Syntax Highlighting for Dummies?
I want to make (have, actually) a custom syntax highlighting for gedit.
There would be just a few different items:
A line that begins with 2 tabs. ----- One color.
A line that begins with 3 tabs. ----- Another color.
A line that begins with 4 tabs.…
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Can you do keyboard shortcuts in gedit?
Not sure if I am missing something very obvious here, but it looks like you can't set your own key bindings in gedit. I've looked around on the ubuntu support forums and Googled around, but apart from a very old and down-voted gedit plugin on…
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Modifying a gedit syntax highlighting file
I am trying to change a highlighting file from Gedit. I have modified the file /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/fortran.lang because I want to change the cases in which the editor takes a statement as a comment. The problem I have is that…
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Turn off line wrap in Gedit
I've been using kwrite for a long time and love the way I can turn on/off line wrapping easily. Now I'm running Ubuntu with GNOME, trying to avoid any KDE at all on this particular machine. Gedit seems to always wrap lines with no way to turn it…
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How to tell GEDIT to reload currently opened file
I am using GEDIT and I would like to have a shortcut key that allows me to tell GEDIT (on Ubuntu) to force reloading from file system the currently opened file.
How can I do that?
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Is there an OpenVMS EDT keypad plugin for gedit?
Is there a OpenVMS EDT keypad (layout) plugin for gedit?
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How to stop Firefox opening xml files and get gedit to open them instead
When ever I open an xml file in Ubuntu it opens with Firefox, how do I change the file association to open with gedit instead?
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gedit indent guides
I would like some indent guides for gedit. This is very useful in python code. I couldn't find such an option in the settings, nor a plugin to add it. Does anyone know how to make such a thing visible? like I once had in SciTE, I want to see some…
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I have problems printing from gedit in Windows
Gedit in Linux works like a champ. For me, in two installations Gedit in Windows XP works well except that it will not print properly on HP LaserJets or Toshiba's laser printers. It will make a 90 page project out of two pages of text composed in…
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How to change the UI language of gedit under windows7?
gedit starts with the system-language of my system but I want to use the US version of the UI.
I can not find a option in the menues or the config-file.
Is there a way to change this?
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Gedit - how to set default encoding opening?
I would like to somehow make Gedit on my sister's laptop to open text files in Windows1250 (CP1250-Winlatin2) encoding by default.
She has a plenty of ebooks in txt format and opening them in LibreOffice is not much comfortable.
I need to use Gedit…
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Why won't gedit file browser plugin show files?
Does anyone know why gedit won't show any files on my system, but only show folders? See attached screenshot for clarification. In the screenshot, both Explorer and gedit are showing the exact same location, but none of the files are showing in…
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How to enable gedit editor in midnight commander?
How can I set gedit to be default editor in mc?
When I hit F4, gedit should be used rather than mc's default editor.
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Changing GEdit's default file open/save path?
When opening/saving a file using GEdit you see a open/save file dialog. The default location to open/save files in is ~. Is there anyway I can change it so that the default open/save is ~/Desktop/?
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Which command line text editor has the closest keybindings to Notepadd++, Gedit, or Kate (or any modern CUA style editor)?
I'm looking for a text editor that has an amazing common user access (CUA) mode (or can be configured to have it) that resembles closely modern editors like Notepad++, Gedit, Kate, Sublime, etc.
I've tried Emacs cua-mode and made some custom…
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