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>>Title of script: Overview to gedit Text editor

Author: Nirmala Venkat

Keywords: gedit Text editor, gedit installation, Features of gedit, Overview, Video tutorial


Visual Cue Narration
Slide 1: Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Overview of gedit Text editor.
Slide 2:

Learning objectives

In this tutorial, we will learn about:
  • gedit Text editor
  • features of gedit Text editor and
  • the content available in various tutorials under this series
Slide 3:

System Requirements

For this tutorial, I am using:
  • Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system
  • gedit Text editor 3.10
Slide 4:

Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial, you should have working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating system.
Slide 5:

gedit Text editor

First, let us learn about gedit Text editor.
  • gedit is a powerful text editor.
  • It is simple and easy to use.
  • It is the default GUI text editor in Ubuntu Linux operating system.
Next, let us see the features of the gedit Text editor.
Slide 6(a):

Features of gedit Text editor

  • Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo and Redo options
  • Search and Replace text
  • Spell Check facility
  • Displays line numbers
  • Wraps text
  • Highlights current text
gedit Text editor has all the common editing features like Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo and Redo.

The Search and Replace text options, like in any other text editor, are also available in gedit.

gedit Text editor has a spell-check facility.

It displays line numbers, which is very useful to debug the source code easily.

It wraps text and highlights the current text.

Slide 6(b):

Features of gedit Text editor

  • Tabbed windows
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Matching brackets
  • Plugins
  • Automatic save and backup files
Tabbed windows feature makes it easy to work on several files in the same window.

gedit text editor highlights the syntax in various programming languages.

It keeps track of the open and close brackets in the programs.

Addition of new features is available through plugins.

Automatic save and backup options are also available

Slide 7:

Who can use gedit Text editor?

  • Programmers, Project managers, writers
  • Anyone working with text files
Gedit text editor can be used by
  • Programmers, Project managers, Authors and
  • Anyone working with text files
We will briefly go through the individual tutorials in this series.
Slide 8:

Introduction to gedit Text editor

The first tutorial in this series explains-
  • Installation of gedit Text editor in Ubuntu Linux and Windows.
  • And how to create a new file, open, save and close an existing file.
Show “Introduction to gedit Text editor” tutorial. Here is a glimpse of the tutorial.
Slide 9:

Common Edit Functions

  • Cut, Copy and Paste content
  • Undo and Redo actions
  • Search and Replace text and
  • Print document
The next tutorial is 'Common Edit Functions'.

It will help us to understand-

  • Cut, Copy and Paste content
  • Undo and Redo actions
  • Search and Replace text and
  • Print document
Show “Common Edit Functions” tutorial Let us have a look at this tutorial.
Slide 10:

Handling tabs

  • Add, move, re-order and close tabs.
  • Use the side Panel to browse and open files.
  • Insert line numbers and wrap text
The next tutorial is 'Handling tabs'. Here we will learn to
  • Add, move, re-order and close tabs.
  • Use the side Panel to browse and open files.
  • Insert line numbers and wrap text
Here is a glimpse of the tutorial.
Slide 11:

Default plugins

  • Sort
  • Change case
  • Spell checker
  • Insert date and time
The next tutorial is 'Default Plugins'.

This will help us to know how to use default plugins such as

  • Sort
  • Change case
  • Spell checker
  • Insert date and time
Let me play this tutorial.
Slide 12:

Third party Plugins

  • Installation of third party plugins
  • Third party plugin called Intelligent Text Completion will be covered in this tutorial.
The next tutorial will explain the third party Plugins.

It explains how to install the third party plugins and use it.

Third party plugin called Intelligent Text Completion will be covered in this tutorial.

Let's have a look at this tutorial.
Slide 13:

Snippets

  • Use default Snippets
  • Add new snippets
  • Delete snippets
  • Highlight matching brackets and
  • Document Statistics
The last tutorial is about snippets.

Snippets helps the user to avoid repetitive typing of code.

It explains how to

  • Use default Snippets
  • Add new snippets
  • Delete snippets

Other options such as

  • Highlight matching brackets and
  • Document Statistics

are also covered in this tutorial.

Here is a glimpse of the tutorial.
This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarise.
Slide 14:

Summary

In this tutorial, we learnt about:
  • Overview of the gedit Text editor
  • Please refer to our website for the detailed tutorials on each topic mentioned.
Slide 15:

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Slide 16:

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Slide 17:

Forum for specific questions

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  • Explain your question briefly
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Slide 18

Forum for specific questions:

The Spoken Tutorial forum is for specific questions on this tutorial
  • Please do not post unrelated and general questions on them
  • This will help reduce the clutter
  • With less clutter, we can use these discussion as instructional material
Slide 19:

Acknowledgement

Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.

More information on this mission is available at this link.

This is Nirmala Venkat from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for watching.

Contributors and Content Editors

Nancyvarkey, Nirmala Venkat