Does Gedit have cool keyboard shortcuts?

Question

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 miss the being to create a new line, going to the end of the line, going to the beginning of the line, deleting a line with keyboard shortcuts.

I tried to look up "gedit keyboard shortcuts" but all it came up with was how to save a file. Basic things.

Answer 1

See the Gedit page for all the default hotkeys.

Answer 2

VIGedit - might have to muck around with it a bit, but sounds like what you want.

also worth reading this "ViGedit–Gedit’s Simplicity with Vi(m)’s Power"

Answer 3

For sure, GNOME’s gedit wiki will direct you to a page with “official” keyboard shortcuts.

However, there is more to this story; gedit uses the GtkTextView widget to display and edit text. This means there are more keyboard shortcuts at play than those documented in the gedit wiki.

Here is a longer list with all gedit shortcuts.

Answer 4

I'm honestly not surprised you had problems with this considering the abusive upbringing you've had with Vi and Vim.

shift + end, delete : delete line
shift + down, delete : delete line
ctrl + d : delete line

home : beginning of line
end : end of line

shift + tab : un-indent
tab : indent

hightlight, shift + tab : un-indent
hightlight + tab : indent

hightlight, ctrl + c : copy
hightlight, ctrl + x : cut
hightlight, ctrl + v : paste

hightlight: secondary x11 clipboard copy
middle-click: secondary x11 clipboard paste

Those last two are X11-only features.