Gedit-Text-Editor/C2/Default-plugins-in-gedit/English

Title of script: 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 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
Slide 4: Pre-requisites	To follow this tutorial, you should have working knowledge of any operating system.
Slide 5: 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 * 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>>
Switch back to gedit Text editor.	Let's switch back to gedit Text editor.
	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 Click + to increase the font size upto 20 Click Select.	At the bottom right, there is a minus or plus sign button. This is used to increase or decrease the font size. I'll increase the font size to 20. Click Select button to set the font size.
Click on Cobalt Click on Classic Click Close	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 to go back to the normal settings. 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. Point to the removal of the duplicate copy of the word 'Oranges'	Notice that the words in the list are now arranged in alphabetical order. 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, Upper case 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. Click Spelling Suggestions. Select the correct word from the list.	Place the cursor on the word and right-click on it. Click Spelling Suggestions. 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. Point to the list of correct spelling. Click Change. Select correct spelling word. Click Close.	The Check Spelling dialog box appears highlighting the misspelled words in the document. It also displays the correct spelling. Select the correct word from the Suggestions list and click Change. Here, we have two misspelled words. Select the correct word and change it. 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.
	So far, we have seen how to use the default plugins available in the gedit Text editor.
	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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	This is Nirmala Venkat from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for watching.

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