gEdit Tunnings

gEdit tunnings holds some personal setup to make the editor work my way. Anyone interested in using gEdit for VBScript, Javascript, Python, Ruby, MSSQL, C# etc may check this repository for small tips and tricks.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The official list of keyboard shortcuts is maintained at live.gnome.org/gedit/keyboardshortcuts

Enhanced Editing features

Note i: More information about gtkrc-2.0 signals available at GTKTextView reference
Note ii: More information about gtkrc-2.0 binding available at GTK+ Bindings

Duplicate line

Bind <Control><Shift>D to duplicate the current line.

Add the following lines to your .gtkrc-2.0 file ($ gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0)

# Duplicate line
binding "control-shift-d" {
    bind "<Control><Shift>d" {
        "move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, -1, 0)
        "move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, 1, 1)
        "copy-clipboard" ()
        "move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, 1, 0)
        "insert-at-cursor" ("\n")
        "paste-clipboard" ()
    }
}
class "GeditView" binding :highest "control-shift-d"

Some tips for people trying to make their own bindings

# Tips:
# "move-cursor" (visual-positions, -1, 0) previous char
# "move-cursor" (visual-positions, 1, 0) next char
# "move-cursor" (words, -1, 0) moves to the start of the word or previous word
# "move-cursor" (words, 1, 0) moves to the end of the word or next word
# "move-cursor" (display-lines, -1, 0) moves to the previous line (trying to keep the cursor in the same position)
# "move-cursor" (display-lines, 1, 0) moves to the next line (trying to keep the cursor in the same position)
# "move-cursor" (display-line-ends, -1, 0) moves to the line start (absolute|non-indented)
# "move-cursor" (display-line-ends, 1, 0) moves to the line end (absolute|with-spaces)
# "move-cursor" (paragraphs, -1, 0) moves to the previous line start
# "move-cursor" (paragraphs, 1, 0) moves to the next line (with content) end
# "move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, -1, 0) moves to the line start ABSOLUTE
# "move-cursor" (paragraph-ends, 1, 0) moves to the line end ABSOLUTE

Envy Code R

For a programmer, a good monospaced font is vital just as the editor. I'm currently using the Envy Code R by damieng, a well thought TTF created by a VS programmer. It's very easy to install:

Download the font package (view the author page)
Extract the package to ~/.fonts/
$ fc-cache

Click System > Preferences > Appearance
Click Fonts tab
Set "Fixed width font" to "Envy Code R"

Open gedit
Click Edit > Preferences
Click Font & Colors tab
Check "Use the system fixed width font"

Color Schemes

There is a lot of color schemes (themes) available in this github repository
and a lot more at gmate styles folder.

Plugins

Official

sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

Third party

• Evolved Code Completion
• Evolved Code Browser
• Quick Highlight Mode
• Collaboration

Install Gedit Collaboration Plugin

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pspsampsp/gedit-plugin-collaboration
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gedit-collaboration

Test it with: gobby.0x539.de:6523

Setting up the Infinoted server

sudo apt-get install infinoted-0.4
gedit ~/.config/infinoted.conf

Paste and replace with your username, with your password:

[infinoted]
security-policy=require-tls
certificate-file=/home/<username>/.config/infinoted.cert
password=<password>
key-file=/home/<username>/.config/infinoted.key

For the first time, generate the cert, key and load it:

infinoted --create-certificate --create-key

Next time just start the infinoted server:

infinoted

Configure the External Tools plugin

Note: If you fork and add a new external tool to this collection, please keep the sorting by the H3 name.

Compute selection length

Entry:

Description: Computes selection length
Shortcut Key: <Control>l Commands:
#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

print "Current Selection has %s characters"%(len(sys.stdin.read()))

Input: Current selection
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Diff

Requirements:

$ sudo apt-get install zenity meld

Entry:

Description: Diff the current document against another one
Shortcut Key: <Control><Alt>d
Commands:
#!/bin/sh

meld $GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_DIR/$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME `zenity --file-selection --title="External Tools - Diff against ..."` &

Input: Nothing
Output: Display in the bottom pane
Applicability: Local files only

Format as HTML 4.01

Requirements:

$ sudo apt-get install tidy

Entry:

Description: Tidy to HTML 4.01
Shortcut Key:
Commands:
#!/bin/sh

exec tidy -utf8 -ashtml -wrap 0 -indent -upper -quiet "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME"

Input: Nothing
Output: Create new document
Applicability: Local files only

Format as XHTML 1.0

Requirements:

$ sudo apt-get install tidy

Entry:

Description: Tidy to XHTML 1.0
Shortcut Key:
Commands:
#!/bin/sh

exec tidy -utf8 -asxhtml -wrap 0 -indent -quiet "$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME"

Input: Nothing
Output: Create new document
Applicability: Local files only

Format Javascript

Requirements:

$ sudo npm install -g js-beautify

This tool also requires einars jsbeautifier.

Entry:

Description: Beautify Javascript using einars jsbeautify
Shortcut Key:
Commands:

    #!/bin/sh
    js-beautify -tf -

Input: Current Selection (default to document)
Output: Replace the current selection
Applicability: All documents

Insert Lipsum paragraph

Requirements:

Download and Install (lorem-ipsum-generator](http://code.google.com/p/lorem-ipsum-generator/).

Entry:

Description: Inserts a Lipsum paragraph at cursor
Shortcut Key: <Control><Alt>i
Commands:
#!/bin/sh

lorem-ipsum-generator -p 1

Input: Nothing
Output: Insert at cursor position
Applicability: All documents

JSHint

Requirements:

$ sudo apt-get install rhino

This tool also requires jshint. Just set jshint_path in the Commands to the right place.

Entry:

Description: JSHint is a javascript code quality tool from the developer community
Shortcut Key:
Commands:
#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys
import tempfile

jshint_path = "/home/nagaozen/Development/jshint/"

content = sys.stdin.read()
h, tmpfile = tempfile.mkstemp()
os.close(h)

f = open(tmpfile, "w")
f.write(content)
f.close()

cmd = "js env/jshint-rhino.js %s"%(tmpfile)
os.chdir(jshint_path)
content = os.system(cmd)
os.remove(tmpfile)

print content

Input: Current Selection
Output: Display in bottom pane
Applicability: All documents

Hyphenate

Entry:

Description: Hyphenates a sentence
Shortcut Key: <Control><Alt>h
Commands:
#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import unicodedata

def not_combining(char):
    return unicodedata.category(char) != "Mn"

def strip_accents(text, encoding):
    unicode_text = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text.decode(encoding))
    return filter(not_combining, unicode_text).encode(encoding)

print strip_accents(sys.stdin.read(), "UTF-8").lower().replace(' ', '-')

Input: Current Selection
Output: Replace the current selection
Applicability: All documents

Parse a LESS document

Requirements:

$ sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems
sudo gem install less

Entry:

Description: LESSC the current document
Shortcut Key:
Commands:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'less'

puts Less.parse($stdin.read)

Input: Current Document
Output: Create new document
Applicability: All documents

Configure the Snippets plugin

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/builtin-snippets
$ sudo mv /usr/share/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/*.xml /usr/share/gedit-2/plugins/snippets/builtin-snippets
$ cp -rf <this snippets folder> ~/.gnome2/gedit