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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Welcome to the</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Spoken Tutorial'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> on</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Plugins'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> in</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' gedit Text editor.'''</span>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Welcome to the</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Spoken Tutorial'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> on</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Default Plugins'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> in</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' gedit Text editor.'''</span>
 
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;color:#000000;" | <<PAUSE>>
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;color:#000000;" | <<PAUSE>>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Switch back to</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' gedit Text editor.'''</span>
 
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Let's switch back to</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' gedit Text editor.'''</span>
 
 
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">From the</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Main'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> menu, click</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Edit'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> and then</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Preferences'''</span><span style="color:#000000;">.</span>
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">From the</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Main'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> menu, click</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Edit'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> and then</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Preferences'''</span><span style="color:#000000;">.</span>
 
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Click on</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Plugins'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> tab</span>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | Click on ''' Plugins''' tab >> Check the ''' Sort''' >> ''' Change Case''' and Spell Checker check boxes.
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<span style="color:#000000;">Check the</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Sort'''</span><span style="color:#000000;">,</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Change Case'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> and</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Spell Checker'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> check boxes.</span>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">In the </span><span style="color:#000000;">'''Plugins'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> tab, Check the</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Change Case'''</span><span style="color:#000000;">, </span><span style="color:#000000;">'''Sort'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> and</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Spell checker'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> check boxes to enable these features.</span>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Click</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Close'''</span>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Let us see how to increase or decrease the font size and change the background color in</span><span style="color:#000000;"> the document.</span>
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<span style="color:#000000;">Select the f</span><span style="color:#000000;">ont name that you want to use.</span>
 
<span style="color:#000000;">Select the f</span><span style="color:#000000;">ont name that you want to use.</span>
 
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Now click on</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Sort'''</span><span style="color:#000000;">.</span>
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <span style="color:#000000;">Now click on</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' Sort'''</span><span style="color:#000000;">.</span>
 
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<div style="color:#000000;">Point to the removal of the duplicate copy of the word 'Oranges'</div>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <div style="color:#000000;">Point to options,</div>
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <div style="color:#000000;">Point to options,</div>
  
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<div style="color:#000000;">Upper case</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;">All Upper case</div>
  
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<div style="color:#000000;">Lower case</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;">All Lower case</div>
  
 
<div style="color:#000000;">Invert case</div>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">Invert case</div>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | We can see options such as change to
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | We can see options such as change to
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* <div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="color:#000000;">All </span><span style="color:#000000;">'''U</span><span style="color:#000000;">pper case'''</span></div>
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* <div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="color:#000000;">All </span><span style="color:#000000;">'''L</span><span style="color:#000000;">ower case'''</span></div>
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* <div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="color:#000000;">'''Invert case. '''</span><span style="color:#000000;">That is, it</span><span style="color:#000000;"> will convert all lowercase to uppercase and uppercase</span><span style="color:#000000;"> to lowercase</span></div>
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* <div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="color:#000000;">'''Title case. '''</span><span style="color:#000000;">This</span><span style="color:#000000;">''' '''</span><span style="color:#000000;">will convert first letter of each word to uppercase</span></div>
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;color:#000000;" | Notice, that the misspelled word is now underlined in red color.
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;color:#000000;" | Notice, that the misspelled word is now underlined in red color.
 
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The spelling gets corrected now.
 
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;color:#000000;" | Type grapees, Applis
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;color:#000000;" | Type grapees, Applis
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <div style="color:#000000;">We can also do the spell check for the entire document.</div>
 
| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;" | <div style="color:#000000;">We can also do the spell check for the entire document.</div>
  
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<span style="color:#000000;">I'll misspell the word '''grapes''' and '''apples'''</span><span style="color:#000000;"> as shown.</span>
 
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| style="border:1pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;color:#000000;" | Sometimes, we want to record the date and time, on which a particular file was created or modified.
 
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* <div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="color:#000000;">Open the document </span><span style="color:#000000;">'''Fruits.txt'''</span></div>
 
* <div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="color:#000000;">Open the document </span><span style="color:#000000;">'''Fruits.txt'''</span></div>
 
* <div style="color:#000000;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;">Change the font to Italic and increase the font size to 24.</div>
 
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* <div style="color:#000000;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;">Change the content of the text file to '''Upper case'''.</div>
 
<div style="color:#000000;"></div>
 
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Latest revision as of 19:01, 30 September 2016

Title of script: Default Plugins in gedit Text editor

Author: Nirmala Venkat

Keywords: Plugins, Default plugins, Sort, Change Case, Spelling Check, Insert date and time, Video tutorial

Visual Cue Narration
Slide 1:
 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Default Plugins in gedit Text editor.
Slide 2:
Learning objectives
 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
Slide 3:
System Requirements
To record this tutorial, I am using:
  • Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system
  • gedit Text editor 3.10
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Pre-requisites
 To follow this tutorial, you should have working knowledge of any operating system.
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What are Plugins?
  • Plugin is a software component that adds a specific feature to an application.
  • It gives additional functionality.
Open the gedit Text editor Let's open the gedit Text editor.
Click Edit >> Preferences Some plugins are installed by default, in gedit Text editor.

To view the default plugins, from the Main menu, click Edit and Preferences.

Click on Plugins tab In the Preferences dialog box that appears, click on Plugins tab.
Scroll up and down to show the default plug-ins. The list of default plugins that are installed, is listed here.
Point to the check box which are checked by default Notice that some of the plugins are checked, by default.

This indicates that they are enabled and we can use them.

Point to the Plugins list in the list box. If you don't see as many plugins on your editor as shown here, you can easily install them.

You can do so by using Ubuntu Software Center.

Click on Close button Click on the Close button of gedit Preferences box.
Click on the Dash Home Now, click on the Dash Home icon at the top left corner of the computer desktop.
In the Search box, type Ubuntu software center. In the Search box, type Ubuntu Software Center.
Click >> Ubuntu software center The Ubuntu Software Center icon appears. Click on it.
In the search box, type gedit.

Click on the Text Editor icon and on More Info button

In the Search box, type gedit.

Click on the Text Editor icon. Then click on More Info.

Scroll down to see the Add-ons Scroll down to see the Add-ons available for gedit Text editor.

We can see additional plugins options.

These can be used depending upon our requirement.

Select the check boxes
  • A set of gedit plugins for developers
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Set of plugins for gedit
Select the check boxes for-
  • A set of gedit plugins for developers and
  • Set of plugins for gedit

if these are not already selected.

Click >> Apply Changes button Click on Apply Changes button.
Enter the Admin password when prompted. Click on Authenticate.

Now, the most commonly used plugins will be added to our list.

Close Ubuntu Software Center. Close the Ubuntu Software Center.
<<PAUSE>>
Next we will enable few plugins.
Click >>Edit >> Preferences. From the Main menu, click Edit and then Preferences.
Click on Plugins tab >> Check the Sort >> Change Case and Spell Checker check boxes. In the Plugins tab,
  • check the Change Case, Sort and Spell checker check boxes
  • to enable these features.
Click Close Click on Close.
Click Edit.
Point to the Sort, Change Case in the edit menu.
 Once again, click Edit in the Menu bar.

We can see the plugins are added to our menu list.

Open document Fruits.txt. Let me open a document Fruits.txt which I have already created.

The Fruits.txt file is available in the Codefile link along with this tutorial.

Download and use that text document.
Let us see -
  • how to increase or decrease the font size
  • and change the background color in the document.
Click Edit >> Preferences From the Menu bar, click Edit and Preferences.
Click Font & Colors Then click on the tab Font & Colors.
Uncheck the box “Use the system fixed width font” Uncheck the box “Use the system fixed width font”, if it is already checked.
Click on the Editor font button. Lastly, click on the Editor font button.
Point to different font name Here, we can see different font names.

Select the font name that you want to use.

Point to + / - button At the bottom right, there is a minus or plus sign button.

This is used to increase or decrease the font size.

Click + to increase the font size upto 20 I'll increase the font size to 20.
Click Select . Click Select button to set the font size.
Click on Cobalt To change the background color, click on Cobalt in the Color Scheme option.
Immediately, you can see the background color has changed to blue.
Click on Classic Click on Classic to go back to the normal settings.
Click Close . Then click on Close.
<<PAUSE>>
Next, let us see how the sort option works.
Edit >> Sort From the Main menu, click Edit and Sort.
Point to the Sort dialog box. The Sort dialog box appears.
Point to the word 'Oranges' in the document. In our document, we have 'Oranges' typed twice.
Check Remove Duplicates box. Check the Remove duplicates box.
It will remove the duplicate words from the document, if any.
Check the Ignore case. Check the Ignore case checkbox also.
Click Sort. Now click on Sort.
Point to the sorted order of the text. Notice that the words in the list are now arranged in alphabetical order.
Point to the removal of the duplicate copy of the word 'Oranges' Also notice that the duplicate copy of the word Oranges is removed.
<<PAUSE>>
Next, let us see how to use the Change Case option.
Point to the line of text in the document First select a line of text for which you want to change the case.
Select the entire text in the document Here, I'll select the entire document.
Edit >> Change case From the Main menu, click Edit and Change Case.
Point to options,
All Upper case
All Lower case
Invert case
Title case
 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
Select Upper case Now I'll select Title Case.
Observe the changes in the document.
Point to the other options in the menu Try other options and explore the respective output on your own.
Next we will see the spell check option.
Type Oranges as Oranages In this document, let's misspell the word Oranges as shown.
Tools>> Highlight Misspelled Words From the Main menu, select Tools and Highlight Misspelled Words.
Point to the word with red color underline Notice, that the misspelled word is now underlined in red color.
Place the cursor on the word and right click. Place the cursor on the word and right-click on it.
Click Spelling Suggestions. Click Spelling Suggestions.
Select the correct word from the list. Select the correct word from the list.


The spelling gets corrected now.

Type grapees, Applis
We can also do the spell check for the entire document.

I'll misspell the word grapes and apples as shown.

Tools>>Check spelling From the Main menu, select Tools and Check Spelling.
Point to the Check Spelling box. The Check Spelling dialog box appears, highlighting the misspelled words in the document.
Point to the list of correct spelling. It also displays the correct spelling.
Click Change . Select the correct word from the Suggestions list and click Change.
Select correct spelling word. Here, we have two misspelled words. Select the correct word and change it.
Click Close . Click Close to exit.
Sometimes, we want to record the date and time, on which a particular file was created or modified.
Click Edit >> Preferences For this, let us enable the plugin called Insert Date and Time.

From the Main menu, click Edit and Preferences.

Click on Plugins tab In the Preferences dialog box that appears, click on Plugins tab.
Check the check box, Insert Date and Time. Click Close. Check the check box, Insert Date and Time. Click Close.
Place the cursor on the first line.
 Now, I want to insert the date and time on the first line of the document.
Place the cursor on the first line.
Edit >> Insert Date and Time From the Main menu, click Edit and select Insert Date and Time.
Point to the various date and time formats.

Select the second format.

A dialog box appears with various date and time formats.
I'll select the second format.
Click Insert. Then click on Insert.
Point to the date and time We can see that the date and time are inserted, at the point where we have placed the cursor.
This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarise.
Slide 8:
Summary
 In this tutorial, we learnt about*
Default plugins in gedit Text editor such as
  • Sort, Change Case, Spell checker
  • Insert Date and Time
Slide 9:
Assignment
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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