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Revision as of 12:08, 7 April 2017

Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Default Plugins in gedit Text editor.
00:07 In this tutorial, we will learn about some default plugins in gedit Text editor, such as- Sort, Change Case, Spell checker and Insert Date and Time.
00:23 To record this tutorial, I am using: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system gedit Text editor 3.10
00:34 To follow this tutorial, you should have working knowledge of any operating system.
00:40 Plugin is a software component that adds a specific feature to an application.
00:46 It gives additional functionality.
00:49 Let's open the gedit Text editor.
00:53 Some plugins are installed by default, in gedit Text editor.
00:59 To view the default plugins, from the Main menu, click Edit and Preferences.
01:06 In the Preferences dialog box that appears, click on Plugins tab.
01:12 The list of default plugins that are installed, is listed here.
01:18 Notice that some of the plugins are checked, by default.
01:23 This indicates that they are enabled and we can use them.
01:28 If you don't see as many plugins on your editor as shown here, you can easily install them.
01:36 You can do so by using Ubuntu Software Center.
01:40 Click on the Close button of gedit Preferences box.
01:45 Now, click on the Dash Home icon at the top left corner of the computer desktop.
01:52 In the Search box, type Ubuntu Software Center.
01:57 The Ubuntu Software Center icon appears. Click on it.
02:03 In the Search box, type gedit.
02:07 Click on the Text Editor icon. Then click on More Info.
02:14 Scroll down to see the Add-ons available for gedit Text editor.
02:20 We can see additional plugins options.
02:24 These can be used depending upon our requirement.
02:28 Select the check boxes for- A set of gedit plugins for developers and Set of plugins for gedit if these are not already selected.
02:40 Click on Apply Changes button.
02:43 Enter the Admin password when prompted. Click on Authenticate.
02:51 Now, the most commonly used plugins will be added to our list.
02:57 Close the Ubuntu Software Center.
03:00 Next we will enable few plugins.
03:04 From the Main menu, click Edit and then Preferences.
03:09 In the Plugins tab, check the Change Case, Sort and Spell checker check boxes to enable these features.
03:21 Click on Close.
03:24 Once again, click Edit in the Menu bar.
03:28 We can see the plugins are added to our menu list.
03:33 Let me open a document Fruits.txt which I have already created.
03:40 The Fruits.txt file is available in the Codefile link along with this tutorial.
03:48 Download and use that text document.
03:51 Let us see - how to increase or decrease the font size and change the background color in the document.
03:59 From the Menu bar, click Edit and Preferences.
04:03 Then click on the tab Font & Colors.
04:08 Uncheck the box “Use the system fixed width font”, if it is already checked.
04:14 Lastly, click on the Editor font button.
04:18 Here, we can see different font names.
04:22 Select the font name that you want to use.
04:26 At the bottom right, there is a minus or plus sign button.
04:31 This is used to increase or decrease the font size.
04:36 I'll increase the font size to 20.
04:39 Click Select button to set the font size.
04:43 To change the background color, click on Cobalt in the Color Scheme option.
04:49 Immediately, you can see the background color has changed to blue.
04:54 Click on Classic to go back to the normal settings.
04:58 Then click on Close.
05:01 Next, let us see how the sort option works.
05:05 From the Main menu, click Edit and Sort.
05:09 The Sort dialog box appears.
05:12 In our document, we have 'Oranges' typed twice.
05:17 Check the Remove duplicates box.
05:20 It will remove the duplicate words from the document, if any.
05:25 Check the Ignore case checkbox also.
05:29 Now click on Sort.
05:32 Notice that the words in the list are now arranged in alphabetical order.
05:38 Also notice that the duplicate copy of the word Oranges is removed.
05:44 Next, let us see how to use the Change Case option.
05:49 First select a line of text for which you want to change the case.
05:55 Here, I'll select the entire document.
05:59 From the Main menu, click Edit and Change Case.
06:03 We can see options such as change to

All Upper case All Lower case Invert case - that is, it will convert all lowercase to uppercase and uppercase to lowercase Title case- this will convert first letter of each word to uppercase

06:25 Now I'll select Title Case.
06:29 Observe the changes in the document.
06:32 Try other options and explore the respective output on your own.
06:38 Next we will see the spell check option.
06:42 In this document, let's misspell the word Oranges as shown.
06:48 From the Main menu, select Tools and Highlight Misspelled Words.
06:54 Notice, that the misspelled word is now underlined in red color.
07:00 Place the cursor on the word and right-click on it.
07:05 Click Spelling Suggestions.
07:08 Select the correct word from the list. The spelling gets corrected now.
07:14 We can also do the spell check for the entire document.
07:18 I'll misspell the word grapes and apples as shown.
07:24 From the Main menu, select Tools and Check Spelling.
07:29 The Check Spelling dialog box appears, highlighting the misspelled words in the document.
07:36 It also displays the correct spelling.
07:39 Select the correct word from the Suggestions list and click Change.
07:45 Here, we have two misspelled words. Select the correct word and change it.
07:51 Click Close to exit.
07:54 Sometimes, we want to record the date and time, on which a particular file was created or modified.
08:03 For this, let us enable the plugin called Insert Date and Time.
08:09 From the Main menu, click Edit and Preferences.
08:14 In the Preferences dialog box that appears, click on Plugins tab.
08:20 Check the check box, Insert Date and Time. Click Close.
08:26 Now, I want to insert the date and time on the first line of the document.
08:32 Place the cursor on the first line.
08:35 From the Main menu, click Edit and select Insert Date and Time.
08:41 A dialog box appears with various date and time formats.
08:46 I'll select the second format.
08:48 Then click on Insert.
08:51 We can see that the date and time are inserted, at the point where we have placed the cursor.
08:59 This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarise.
09:04 In this tutorial, we learnt about* Default plugins in gedit Text editor such as Sort, Change Case, Spell checker ,Insert Date and Time.
09:16 Here is an assignment for you. Open the document Fruits.txt , Change the font to Italic and increase the font size to 24. Change the content of the text file to Upper case.
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