Additional plugins are available in the gedit-plugins package. Gedit comes with several plugins enabled by default ( the list of enabled plugins varies from one Linux distribution to another). I consider them essential because they can greatly increase your programming productivity and make your life easier ( well, your programming life at least!). There are many useful plugins out there for regular users and programmers alike, but in this post I’ll concentrate on 5 gedit plugins that are essential for programmers. But perhaps the most important feature of gedit is its powerful plugin system. It has many features that makes it a good choice for programmers: syntax highlighting, auto indentation, bracket matching, etc. In reality, there is more to gedit than meets the eye. Bug report: gnomebug:163014 More: Apps/Gedit/XMLHelperPluginĪpps/Gedit/ThirdPartyPlugins/v3.Many users think that gedit – the default text editor for the GNOME desktop environment – is a simple editor that can only do some basic editing. Additionally to both we have GUI configuration options, cursor position preservation, i18n/l10n and unittests. It basically is a bloated rewrite of the gedit 2 plugin "Save without trailing space" and acts a lot like the "Trailsave" plugin above. Removes whitespace at the end of each line and unnecessary newlines at the end of the document upon saving.
VHDL coding assistant for gedit (live code hierarchy view, syntax checks, testbench generator). Ī source code class and function browser, with support for many languages. You might also like Hide Header Buttons (above). The language spec file for syntax highlighting is also available.įaster autosaving.
Provides a preview panel at the bottom of the editor windows for reStructuredText (Python). Download: īrowse and switch between opened tabs with Ctrl-E shortcut. Download: ĭiscovering and installing plugins easily. The plugin is smart enough to automatically overwrite existing closing brackets when appropriate. Download: Ī gedit plugin that automatically inserts brackets, quotes, and parenthesis. Download: Īdds context menu item to open/browse an URI at the pointer position. Based on an old plugin called Line Tools that was developed by Shaddy Zeineddine and itself branched off Advanced Editing by Marcus Lunzenauer.
Download: Ī simple plugin that allows moving lines up and down using Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓.
The plugin allows to set custom indentation settings for selected file types, while leaving all other types with default settings. Download:, check forks/tags/branches for versions Plugin uses gtags/global to find definition or references for given identifier. Plugin allows simple folding: Fold/Unfold, Unfold all, Fold deepest level. Reopen closed windows and optionally restore windows between sessions. You can also select one of the many speech recognition services provided. It can also perform specific commands like delete sentence/word, perform undo/redo, copy/paste from clipboard, save/clear document, go to line, input special characters, etc. Provides a way to write into gedit by speaking. This plugin provides a simple way to copy the current file path to the clipboard, through the context menu and the "Tools" menu section. Switch between document tabs using Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (most recently used order or tab row order) and Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown (tab row order). Plugin uses pyflakes and pep8 to validate Python code - detects errors and non-conforming code. Plugin runs Python code in external console when F5 is pressed. Please keep the list in alphabetical order, thanks. They need to be in that exact directory subdirectories are not scanned for plugins.
To install one of these plugins, you need to download the files and put them in your ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/ directory (which may need to be created). Third party gedit plugins - versions 3.14 and above