Gedit-Text-Editor/C3/Default-plugins-in-gedit/English-timed

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00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Default Plugins in gedit Text editor.
00:07	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.
00:23	To record this tutorial, I am using: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system gedit Text editor 3.10
00:34	To follow this tutorial, you should have working knowledge of any operating system.
00:40	Plugin is a software component that adds a specific feature to an application.
00:46	It gives additional functionality.
00:49	Let's open the gedit Text editor.
00:53	Some plugins are installed by default, in gedit Text editor.
00:59	To view the default plugins- from the Main menu, click Edit and Preferences.
01:06	In the Preferences dialog-box that appears, click on Plugins tab.
01:12	The list of default plugins that are installed is listed here.
01:18	Notice that some of the plugins are checked by default.
01:23	This indicates that they are enabled and we can use them.
01:28	If you don't see as many plugins on your editor as shown here, you can easily install them.
01:36	You can do so by using Ubuntu Software Center.
01:40	Click on the Close button of gedit Preferences box.
01:45	Now, click on the Dash Home icon at the top left corner of the computer desktop.
01:52	In the Search box, type Ubuntu Software Center.
01:57	The Ubuntu Software Center icon appears. Click on it.
02:03	In the Search box, type gedit.
02:07	Click on the Text Editor icon. Then click on More Info.
02:14	Scroll down to see the Add-ons available for gedit Text editor.
02:20	We can see additional plugins options.
02:24	These can be used depending upon our requirement.
02:28	Select the check boxes for- A set of gedit plugins for developers and Set of plugins for gedit, if these are not already selected.
02:40	Click on Apply Changes button.
02:43	Enter the Admin password when prompted. Click on Authenticate.
02:51	Now, the most commonly used plugins will be added to our list.
02:57	Close the Ubuntu Software Center.
03:00	Next we will enable few plugins.
03:04	From the Main menu, click Edit and then Preferences.
03:09	In the Plugins tab, check the Change Case, Sort and Spell checker check-boxes to enable these features.
03:21	Click on Close.
03:24	Once again, click Edit in the Menu bar.
03:28	We can see the plugins are added to our menu list.
03:33	Let me open a document Fruits.txt which I have already created.
03:40	The Fruits.txt file is available in the Codefile link along with this tutorial.
03:48	Download and use that text document.
03:51	Let us see how to increase or decrease the font size and change the background color in the document.
03:59	From the Menu bar, click Edit and Preferences.
04:03	Then click on the tab Font & Colors.
04:08	Uncheck the box “Use the system fixed width font”, if it is already checked.
04:14	Lastly, click on the Editor font button.
04:18	Here, we can see different font names.
04:22	Select the font name that you want to use.
04:26	At the bottom right, there is a minus or plus sign button.
04:31	This is used to increase or decrease the font size.
04:36	I'll increase the font size to 20.
04:39	Click Select button to set the font size.
04:43	To change the background color, click on Cobalt in the Color Scheme option.
04:49	Immediately, you can see the background color has changed to blue.
04:54	Click on Classic to go back to the normal settings.
04:58	Then click on Close.
05:01	Next, let us see how the sort option works.
05:05	From the Main menu, click Edit and Sort.
05:09	The Sort dialog-box appears.
05:12	In our document, we have 'Oranges' typed twice.
05:17	Check the Remove duplicates box.
05:20	It will remove the duplicate words from the document, if any.
05:25	Check the Ignore case check-box also.
05:29	Now click on Sort.
05:32	Notice that the words in the list are now arranged in alphabetical order.
05:38	Also notice that the duplicate copy of the word Oranges is removed.
05:44	Next, let us see how to use the Change Case option.
05:49	First select a line of text for which you want to change the case.
05:55	Here, I'll select the entire document.
05:59	From the Main menu, click Edit and Change Case.
06:03	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.
06:25	Now I'll select Title Case.
06:29	Observe the changes in the document.
06:32	Try other options and explore the respective output on your own.
06:38	Next we will see the spell check option.
06:42	In this document, let's misspell the word Oranges as shown.
06:48	From the Main menu, select Tools and Highlight Misspelled Words.
06:54	Notice, that the misspelled word is now underlined in red color.
07:00	Place the cursor on the word and right-click on it.
07:05	Click Spelling Suggestions.
07:08	Select the correct word from the list. The spelling gets corrected now.
07:14	We can also do the spell check for the entire document.
07:18	I'll misspell the word grapes and apples as shown.
07:24	From the Main menu, select Tools and Check Spelling.
07:29	The Check Spelling dialog box appears, highlighting the misspelled words in the document.
07:36	It also displays the correct spelling.
07:39	Select the correct word from the Suggestions list and click Change.
07:45	Here, we have two misspelled words. Select the correct word and change it.
07:51	Click Close to exit.
07:54	Sometimes, we want to record the date and time, on which a particular file was created or modified.
08:03	For this, let us enable the plugin called Insert Date and Time.
08:09	From the Main menu, click Edit and Preferences.
08:14	In the Preferences dialog box that appears, click on Plugins tab.
08:20	Check the check box, Insert Date and Time. Click Close.
08:26	Now, I want to insert the date and time on the first line of the document.
08:32	Place the cursor on the first line.
08:35	From the Main menu, click Edit and select Insert Date and Time.
08:41	A dialog box appears with various date and time formats.
08:46	I'll select the second format.
08:48	Then click on Insert.
08:51	We can see that the date and time are inserted, at the point where we have placed the cursor.
08:59	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarise.
09:04	In this tutorial, we learnt about* Default plugins in gedit Text editor such as Sort, Change Case, Spell checker ,Insert Date and Time.
09:16	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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