cannot get the gedit autotab plugin to work

Question

If you are trying to write python code inside of gedit, you probably want auto-tabbing. Meaning suppose you are writing a method, you type something like:

def foo():

Then hit enter. The cursor goes to the next line. You naturally hit tab to write code for the method

def foo():
    print 'foo'

So after print 'foo' if you hit enter, the cursor comes to the beginning of the line; it doesn't auto tab and appear under the p in print

So I googled for plugins, and I came up with gedit-autotab. But this one was developed when gnome2 was popular. Hence I googled to find out about how to install plugins on unity and took references from here. Basically it says we have to paste the downloaded stuff into:

~/.local/share/gedit/plugins

However I have downloaded gedit-autotab and copied the archive contents to the above folder. And it didn't work! How to get this fixed?

Answer 1

In a default installation the automatic indentation feature of gedit is found in Edit -> Preferences... -> Editor: