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In windows, I used to use a text editor called crimson editor which featured the best column-mode editing support I have yet to use.
When enabled via a simple Alt-C shortcut, selections could be made with the mouse or cursor keys and they would be visual blocks rather than wrapped-lines.
These selections could be deleted, moved, copied, pasted, and all of the operations just made sense. You could also just start typing, and you'd get a column of the characters as you're typing.
There are multiple ways of getting parts of the these features working separately discussed on this forum thread, but no one has yet to provide a solution that provides this all-encompassing and easy-to-use method.
If someone could point me to a gedit plugin where this work is actively being pursued, perhaps I could help with the coding myself. If someone is aware of a text editor that already provides this full functionality, I'd appreciate the info. Running crimson editor through wine and the close-but-not-quite multi-edit plugin for gedit are the temporary solutions I'm 'getting by with' for the time being.
UPDATE (2012-11): I'm now a very happy user of sublime text. It supports excellent column-mode editing and works on all three major OS platforms without any issue. Highly recommended!
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I am running awesome on trusty after having upgraded from raring. My desktop environment intentionally does not have all the Gnome / Freedesktop daemons running—I don't want them.
When I execute gedit from a terminal like this:
gedit file
It outputs messages like this all over my terminal whenever I hit enter or save or on various other occasions:
(gedit:5700): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
I understand the meaning of this warning and I have decided that it doesn't matter to me.
How can I turn off this kind of warning? With "turn off", I don't mean any of these or similar workarounds:
- piping the output of gedit into /dev/null
- writing a wrapper script that pipes the output of gedit into /dev/null
- creating an alias that pipes the output of gedit into /dev/null
These workarounds are not acceptable as they have to be applied individually to each Gnome application—gedit is not the only one who likes to mess up the terminal.
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This is incredibly weird. I don't see "preferences" in any of my gedit menus. I'm running Version 3.8.3. All I want to do is show line numbers, but I can't do that without preferences.
Where the heck are they hiding?
note: I did remove indicator-appmenus because I dislike having the menus detached from the window.
2015 Update: somehow this is being flagged as a dupe of Enable line numbers in gedit which is a little confusing. The solution is the same but the questions are different.
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I know some other text editors like Notepad++ enable split pane to edit to files side by side. Is there any way I can add this functionality to Gedit?
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Is there a Gedit plugin for highlighting HTML matching tag? If so then please suggest me.
For example in this sample:
<div> //div1
<div> //div2
</div> //end of div2
</div> //end of div1
if my cursor is at end of div1 then I want div1 tag to be highlighted. So that I know if I have closed my tags correctly or not.
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Ubuntu 13.04 comes with MTP support to access files on newer Android devices. My Nexus 10 works OK: after plugging in, I can access the N10 files with Nautilus, and I can copy from and to the device. Evince will open PDF files right from the device, but some applications fail to open files directly from the device like gedit or libreoffice. Gedit says something like:
Cannot open file mtp://[usb:001,009]/65537/5823/5824
I guess MTP is integrated at the gvfs level, so should not all gvfs-enabled applications be able to access the MTP device? Why evince but not gedit?
I know that MTP could be mounted with fuse, but it would be nice if it worked with regular applications from Nautilus just like sftp:// or smb://.
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If I have multiple tabs open, how do I move from one to another?
(Ubuntu 11.10; gedit 3.2.1)
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I can't find how to enable the line numbers, current line highlight, and other goodness in 13.10.
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As the title already says: I have some plug-ins which don't run with gedit 3.18.3 which is shipped with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
How can I downgrade to the version 3.10.4 which was used in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10 and get all the plug-ins possible installed?
And how do I revert it back to 3.18.3 if 3.10.4 is not needed any more.
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There is a gedit plugin called Modelines and the plugin is described as
Emacs, Kate and Vim-style modelines support for gedit.
What are modelines? And how do they work in gedit?
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When I create a new document aimed at containing only plain text, I am not obliged by Ubuntu to add a .txt extension to its name. It works indeed very well: gedit opens it without problem, understanding very well that it is only text.
The only two pro arguments I have found from now on for adding an extension are 1/ interoperability with Windows systems and 2/ avoiding confusion with folders having the same name. Nevertheless those two arguments do not convince me at all. As a consequence, should I keep the reflex of adding an extension to files or not?
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Depending on nature of the text, sometimes line wrapping is convenient, sometimes it is just confusing. And every time I need to switch this (pretty frequently) I have to do to View - Preferences - Enable text wrapping - Close - four clicks, not mentioning all the hand, eye and thought motion. Can this be done a quicker way? Most of text editors have this two clicks away (in a menu) at maximum, some have it on a toolbar or a hot key, but I couldn't find any quick way in Gedit. :-( Maybe there is a hot key I don't know?
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This question already has an answer here:
In gedit, how can I write x^2 without using ^? Where 2 will be the superscript of x.
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Does anyone know about a way to get code folding in gedit, I've found this plugin in google code, but looks like dead and doesn't work with the latest gedit.
Any idea is wellcome
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When I type man bash it shows the info in the terminal itself.
How do I tell "man" to open up the info in gedit instead? Is this possible?
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