Gedit-Text-Editor/C2/Third-party-plugins-in-gedit/English
Title of script: Third party Plugins in gedit Text editor
Author: Nirmala Venkat
Keywords: Plugins, Third party plugins, Installation of third party plugins, iIntelligent Text completion, Video tutorial
Visual Cue | Narration |
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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Third party Plugins in gedit Text editor. |
Slide 2:
Learning objectives
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In this tutorial, we will learn how to
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Slide 3:
System Requirements
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To record this tutorial, I am using:
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Slide 4:
Pre-requisites
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To follow this tutorial, you should have working knowledge of any operating system. |
Now we will learn about third party plugins. | |
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Third Party plugins
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Installing a third party plugin
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Installing a third-party plugin involves:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit
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https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit | Let us go to the gedit website to download the plugins. |
Click on the plugins link | Click on the plugins link at the top right corner. |
Click on Lists of gedit plugins | Click on Lists of gedit plugins. |
Point to different links | We can see many links for third-party plugins for different versions of gedit Text editor. |
click on the link for version 3.8 and 3.10. | Since my version of gedit is 3.10, I'll click on the link for version 3.8 and 3.10.
You have to choose the link depending upon your gedit version. |
Scroll down | Scroll down to see the various third party plugins. |
Let us explore the features of Intelligent Text completion. | |
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Intelligent Text Completion
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Features:
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Point to Intelligent Text Completion plugin | I'll demonstrate how to install and use Intelligent Text Completion. |
Click on the Download link. | Let us go to the gedit website.
Click on the Download link. |
Point to Features | We can see the Features and Installation details for Intelligent Text Completion.
Go through the information thoroughly for your own understanding.
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Click on the Clone or download drop down box on the top right corner | Click on the Clone or download drop down box on the top right corner. |
Click on the Download Zip | Then click on the Download Zip. |
Click Save. Click ok. | Select the Save file option and click Ok. |
The file is saved in the Downloads folder. | |
Extract the files | Extract the files. Open the folder to see the available files. |
Point to the folder gedit3-8 | I'll copy the folder gedit3-8, because my gedit version is higher than this. |
Copy the folder to
.local/share/gedit/plugins |
We need to copy this folder to dot local/share/gedit/plugins in the Home directory. |
Select the Home directory | Select the Home directory. |
Click on the View menu on the Menu bar and select Show Hidden Files | Click on the View menu on the Menu bar and select Show Hidden Files. |
Locate the directory .local/share/gedit/plugins | Locate the .local folder share.
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Paste the folder | Paste the folder or copy the files from the folder inside plugins.
Third party plugin files should be copied to the correct directory as shown. |
Now our plugin is ready to use. | |
Open the gedit Text editor | Let's open the gedit Text editor. |
click Edit and Preferences. | From the Main menu, click Edit and Preferences. |
Scroll down in the Plugins list. | Under the Plugins tab, scroll down to see whether our third party plugin is added. |
Point to Intelligent Text completion plugin >> check it >> Click on Close | We can see the Intelligent Text completion plugin is added to our list. Check the box.
Click Close. |
Let us see how the Intelligent Text completion helps us to write a html program. | |
Click new icon from the toolbar | Open a new document. |
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Spoken Tutorial< |
I'll type tags as shown here.
After the less than symbol, press backslash. It will automatically insert the title closing tag. |
Type
</
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In the next line, type less than backslash. You can see the head closing tag is inserted.
Again type less than backslash. html closing tag is also inserted. |
Point to the html tag | So, it automatically detects the html tags and creates them.
It makes our work easy while writing the source code. |
Point to the syntax keyword <html> | We can see, the syntax highlight is in off mode. |
Point to the file name | Until you save a document in gedit Text editor, syntax highlighting is turned off. |
Click view>> Highlight Mode | You can turn it ON by clicking the menu View and Highlight Mode.
You can select the mode depending upon your source code.
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Select HTML from the given list | As our program is HTML, I'll select HTML option from the list. |
We can see, our HTML code gets highlighted with the syntax. | |
This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarise. | |
Slide 8:
Summary
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In this tutorial, we learnt about how to* Install third party plugins and use it.
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Slide 9:
Assignment
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Here is an assignment for you.
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Slide 11:
About Spoken Tutorial project
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The video at the following link summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
Please download and watch it.
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Slide 12:
Spoken Tutorial workshops
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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team:
For more details, please write to us.
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Slide 13:
Forum for specific questions
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Acknowledgement
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Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
More information on this mission is available at
this link.
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This is Nirmala Venkat from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for watching. |