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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How disable ketboard shortcuts in gedit?
My question is how do you disable the keyboard shortcuts in gedit? I sometimes hit the wrong key or keys (I do touch typing but am not very good at it) and my whole document disappears. There is no ...
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Remove unnecessary blank and eol in gedit
Notepad++ offered me a simple GUI to remove all trailing & unnecessary whitespace how do I do that via using Linux (gedit)
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Fallback fonts in gedit or geany for Windows
On Linux I often use gedit and Geany, and love the interface of both. On Windows (8) however, non seem to support font fallback; that is, when I open a text file containing Chinese and Japanese ...
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Missed scrolls in Gedit and nautilus
After I type anything in GEdit, it ignores the next 6 ticks of my scrollwheel in a direction. If I scroll 6 times up, it will then let me scroll up, but not down. To scroll down I will have to scroll ...
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How to fix Gedit not showing files
I have Ubuntu 12.10, my Gedit suddenly stopped showing files on the file browser.
It only shows folders. I can open any file on Gedit, but the file browser doesn't show the files on the current ...
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Unable to save file with gedit
After upgrading to Fedora 18, I am no longer able to edit the files in my html folder using gedit. The files have the following permission:
-rw-r-----. me apache ...
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unable to open a file in gedit from the terminal when I login as root
When I try to open a file named tester.php from gedit by logging in as root, I see this :
[root@Feddy htdocs]# gedit tester.php
(gedit:4310): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session ...
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Why can't I open a certain file in gedit
I edited one of gedit's language files (syntax highlighting) and – to test the changes – changed the language of an open file to another one and then back. I did this a couple of times, ...
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Add terminal plugin to gedit on Windows
How can I use the embedded terminal feature, available for gedit on Linux, on Windows?
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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 ...
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gedit color HTML file
I have a file that I don't want to put .html in its name. However, I still want gedit to color it like an HTML file. Is there a way that I can tell gedit to color it as an HTML file? Like putting some ...
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Convert vim syntax highlighting for use with gedit
Is there an easy way to convert vim syntax highlighting definitions for use with GtkSourceView/gedit?
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View file path on drive
Using Gedit can the path to opened files be displayed so I know where they are stored on hard drive? I have looked at preferences and plugins but there does not seem to be an option available ?
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Config file for gedit to disable line wrap?
Is there a non-interactive way to disable line wrapping in gedit? i.e., a config file? I am teaching a class and would like to change the settings for the whole class globally.
(follow-up to how ...
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How to move files and folders with Gedit?
Is there a plugin or something to be able to drag and drop files in the file browser?
I thought gedit was gonna become my default "IDE" after throwing away Netbeans. But just now I found I can't ...
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How to make HTML snippets available when working with PHP?
This question is not only about HTML and PHP, there are some files which are written in more than one language. Let's take example of HTML; here you can do CSS and JavaScript stuffs in it.
In ...
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CSS Taglist for gedit 3.4
How do we install/integrate CSS tag list in ubuntu 12.04, so that we can get the info of tags in the gedit text-editor?
Where to get the tags xml files from ? and where to place them ?
Does anyone ...
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Gedit ftp plugin won't connect
I'm using gEdit and I want to connect to an FTP server with the FTP Browser plugin.
I filled in the connection details but when i click on the connect button it won't respond.
I'm sure the FTP ...
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gedit flashes and exit automatically when opening a file
Environment:Ubuntu 11.10 gedit 3.2.3
When I open a specific .php file with gedit, it will appear in a flash and disappear immediately. I searched the web and found one way to get around this - use ...
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Change language colors/syntax highlighting in gedit
When a javascript file is open in gedit, I want comments to be green instead of the default blue.
How do I change the colors?
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GEdit 'Session Saver'
I use 'session saver' with GEdit on Ubuntu 11.10. I would like to know where GEdit stores them so that I can automatically back it using DropBox.
Session Saver: Allow to bookmark working sessions ...
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Can't install gedit plugins on Linux Mint 12
I'm trying to install for instance this plugin in gedit on Linux Mint 12 (Gnome 3). The gedit version is 3.2.3. According to the Gnome gedit plugins page, the following must hold for third party ...
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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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How do you use sftp with gedit on Ubuntu?
Do you need a plugin to edit sftp files on a remote server with gedit? Which one works best?
What about (non-secure) ftp?
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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 ...
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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. ...
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GEdit Snippets don't seem to work on remote files?
I am attempting to use gedit's "snippets" plugin. They work great in Ubuntu, but I've since switched to Debian. Now, even though I have enabled Snippets, they don't work when I am editing files on a ...
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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 ...
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How can I open a large XML file?
I've got to read an XML file and put it into a DB. But before that I want to open it and 'clean' it by deleting many chunks of records. The original file is about 20Mb.
How can I open this file to ...
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PowerShell ISE as C editor (like gEdit with embedded terminal)?
I've just discovered PowerShell in Windows 7 and realised that it comes with an ISE too.
In Linux, I use gEdit with an embedded terminal when writing C programs and I've been looking for an ...
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How do I make Gedit run a custom command when I save a certain type of file?
Can I tell Gedit to automatically run a command like slimrb -p foo.slim foo.html whenever I save a file ending in .slim?
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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 ...
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Gedit on Windows - Locating a File
I am using the text editor gedit on Windows Vista. I did not realize it at the time, but the default is the gedit saves a file to "C:\Windows\system32". I am looking for a file that I saved to this ...
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Open file in gedit from terminal (Mac OSX) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can gedit on mac be used to edit files over ssh?
I've been able to do this in the past but completely forgot how to call it!
I'm using OSX and looking to edit a file in ...
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gedit snippets are not activated?
I want to use facility of gedit to insert snippets.
The documentation suggests (doc):
Using snippets
Install the plugin. Menu: Tools -> Manage Snippets. A dialog will appear and you can start add ...
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How do I save to my home folder using gedit on MAC OS X?
I've just created a text file in gedit. I'm trying to save to a folder in my home folder and I'm getting the following error:
You do not have the permissions necessary to save the file.
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gedit in VMware always says file has been modified since opening when I save
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 in VMware Workstation 7.1.0, and using gedit to edit text files that are in a folder shared between Ubuntu and Windows 7 x64. Whever I try to save a file in gedit, it gives ...
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Is it possible to get gedit's External Tools plugin working with cygwin on Windows?
I see that gedit has an External Tools plugin, but it is Unix only. Is there a way to get it working with cygwin on Windows? Or is there a windows alternative to External Tools?
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Where to put *.lang syntax highlighting files for gedit in Windows
I'm trying to add coffeescript syntax highlighting to gedit in Windows, but I can't work out where to put the *.lang file.
I'm following the instructions here, but the path ...
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gedit missing spell check database
Spell check is installed and enabled in gedit, but the dictionary seems to be missing. When I enable autocheck spelling every word is highlighted as incorrect (and yes, some of them are spelled ...
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Does Gedit have cool keyboard shortcuts?
I have used Vim before and I love the keyboard shortcuts, but I hate having to copy and paste, so I am looking for a text editor that makes it easier. I have been trying Gedit. It's cool. But I really ...
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gedit, keyboard shortcut to switch to bottom pane (command prompt)
Im on Ubuntu, and using gedit for some minor programming stuff, and was wondering if anyone knows a keyboard shortcut to switch between the text area and the bottom pane (bottom pane = shell / command ...
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How can I show “space” as “-” or other marks in gEdit?
How can I show "space" as "-" or other marks in gEdit?
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Where do I get gedit for windows?
Do I just install the binary from here: http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
Is it simply click to install or?
Do I install python 2 or 3? Or does it matter?
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Gedit open current directory from terminal - Ubuntu 10.10
I've been searching for how to do this for quite some time and can't find an answer. I'm new to UNIX environments in general so excuse my ignorance.
I'm watching a screencast on Rails and in OSX it ...
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Formatting gets changed when trying to copy text from gedit to vim
I want to copy/paste some text to vim from gedit. The original text looks like this:
I start vim, press "i", then right click, paste, and get this:
How could i set vim to not to do this? How ...
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how to 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 ...
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How do I change the theme of gEdit on WIndows?
Gedit (like most Windows GTK applications) is hideously ugly. I already tried the solution described in this question, however, it a) prompted me to install an endless array of DLLs and finally ...
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use gedit to open file with null characters
I know GEdit has a bug which prevents it from opening a file with null (\0) characters in it. This is a huge inconvenience for me because I frequently have to open big log files with only a couple ...
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Can gedit on mac be used to edit files over ssh?
I use a linux machine at work and a mac at home. I can ssh from my machine at home to my work machine. But the only editor that I have access to on the command line then is vi, which I don't like.
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