/gedit

Introduction

Gedit is a text editor specifically designed for the GNOME desktop environment. However, it works equally well on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Its exemplary simplicity and ease of use make it the general purpose editor of choice. Programmers the world over use it for everything from writing source code, to structured languages like HTML.

Operating systems such as Ubuntu 10.04 that use the GNOME desktop environment, would have Gedit installed by default. Gedit is much more than just a text editor. Its multiple functionalities make it the editor of choice for many programmers across the world.

Basic Level

1. Introduction to Gedit Text Editor
   • Introduction
   • Installation [Windows, Ubuntu]
   • Uninstallation
2. New, Open, Save, Edit, Close files
3. Handling tabs in Gedit
   • Add and remove tabs
   • Moving and re-ordering tabs
   • Using side pane to browse and open files
4. Cut, Copy and Paste
   • Undo / Redo
5. Search and replace
   • Moving to specific line
   • Highlight current line
6. Wrapping Text
   • Highlight matching bracket
   • Insert line numbers
7. Print to paper
   • Print to output file

Intermediate Level

1. Editing files from a remote location
2. Backup Files
3. Plugins
   • What is a plugin
   • Default plugins in gedit
   • Insert tags, strings and special characters
   • Change case of selected text
4. Insert Date/Time, Spell Check and Sorting text
5. Snippets

Advanced Level

1. Setting color schemes
   • Changing the screen mode
2. Python console in Gedit
3. Modelines [Emacs, Kate, Vim]
4. Document Statistics
   • External tools
   • Adding terminal console
   • Auto complete closing brackets
5. Installing third party plugins
6. Using Gedit for XML

Contributors and Content Editors

Gyan