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00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Overview of gedit Text editor .
00:07 In this tutorial, we will learn about:

gedit Text editor, features of gedit Text editor' and

00:15 the content available in various tutorials under this series.
00:21 For this tutorial, I am using:

Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system, gedit Text editor 3.10

00:32 To follow this tutorial, you should have working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating system.
00:40 First, let us learn about gedit Text editor .
00:45 gedit is a powerful text editor.
00:49 It is simple and easy to use.
00:52 It is the default GUI text editor in Ubuntu Linux operating system.
00:59 Next, let us see the features of the gedit Text editor .
01:04 gedit Text editor has all the common editing features like Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo and Redo options.
01:14 The Search and Replace text options, like in any other text editor, are also available in gedit.
01:22 gedit Text editor has a spell-check facility.
01:26 It displays line numbers which is very useful to debug the source code easily.
01:32 It wraps text and highlights the current text.
01:37 Tabbed windows feature makes it easy to work on several files in the same window.
01:44 gedit text editor highlights the syntax in various programming languages.
01:50 It keeps track of the open and close brackets in the programs.
01:55 Addition of new features is available through plugins .
02:00 Automatic save and backup options are also available
02:05 gedit text editor can be used by programmers, project managers, authors and anyone working with text files.
02:16 We will briefly go through the individual tutorials in this series.
02:21 The first tutorial in this series explains installation of gedit Text editor in Ubuntu Linux and Windows .
02:30 And, how to create a new file, open, save and close an existing file.
02:38 Here is a glimpse of the tutorial.
02:41 Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Introduction to gedit Text Editor . In this tutorial, we will learn about:gedit Text Editor
02:51 The next tutorial is Common Edit Functions.
02:55 It will help us to understand- Cut, Copy and Paste content

Undo and Redo actions , Search and Replace text and Print document.

03:10 Let us have a look at this tutorial.
03:13 Only one word matches the case option. That is, capital 'S' in the word School. Again, place the cursor on the Find box.
03:25 The next tutorial is 'Handling tabs'. Here, we will learn to:
03:30 Add, move, re-order and close tabs
03:34 Use the side panel to browse and open files
03:39 Insert line numbers and wrap text.
03:43 Here is a glimpse of the tutorial.
03:46 In the side panel, click on the Untitled Document 2. That document becomes active now.
03:55 The next tutorial is 'Default Plugins'.
03:59 This will help us to know how to use default plugins such as

Sort, Change case, Spell checker , Insert date and time.

04:10 Let me play this tutorial.
04:12 You can do so by using Ubuntu Software Center. Click on the Close button of gedit Preferences box.
04:20 The next tutorial will explain the third party Plugins .
04:25 It explains how to install the third party plugins and use it.
04:31 Third party plugin called Intelligent Text Completion will be covered in this tutorial.
04:37 Here is a glimpse of the tutorial.
04:40 I'll click on the link for version 3.8 and 3.10. You have to choose the link depending upon your gedit version.
04:50 The last tutorial is about snippets .
04:54 Snippets helps the user to avoid repetitive typing of code.
05:00 It explains how to Use default Snippets

Add new snippets , Delete snippets .

05:08 Other options such as-
05:10 Highlight matching brackets and Document Statistics are also covered in this tutorial.
05:17 Here is a glimpse of the tutorial.
05:20 On the left hand side, click on the else if snippet under 'C'. You can see the syntax for this on the top right panel.
05:30 This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
05:33 Let us summarise.
05:35 In this tutorial, we learnt about:
05:37 Overview of the gedit Text editor
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