Two gedit plugins clash. How to change shortcut keys, or enable/disable a plugin

Question

Gedit has two plugins from Gnome's Gedit Plugins page which I both particularly want...

• Multi-edit
• Control Your Tabs

However they both vie for the same shortcut keys: Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown

I can see two possible solutions, and maybe there are more,,,(there usually is :)

The best solution may be to change the shorcut keys in Multi-edit to Shift+Ctrl+PageUp and Shift+Ctrl+PageDown... but I've very little python knowledge, and how to do it escapes me..

The simplest method (for me) is to just toggle them on/off via another shortcut-key. I know the command to toggle the Multi-edit feature on/off (but not the entire script)... Basically, for this option, I need a command to toggle a Gedit Plugin on/off..

Either, or both (,or other) solutions would be appreciated...

UPDATE: I'm looking for a command-line command (vs, a menu command),
and/or a 'fix' for Multi-edit's python script.

Note: The 'Edit Shortcuts' plugin does not show the Multi-edit plugin... (so I can't do it that way)

Answer 1

I wrote the following python script (download) that enables/disables the Multi-edit plugin:

#!/usr/env/python

import re
import commands

active_plugins = commands.getoutput("gconftool --get /apps/gedit-2/plugins/active-plugins")

r1 = re.compile(r'multi_edit')

if r1.search(active_plugins):
    # Disable multi-edit plugin
    active_plugins = re.sub("multi_edit,|,multi_edit","", active_plugins)

else:
    # Enable multi-edit plugin
    active_plugins = re.sub("]",",multi_edit]", active_plugins)

commands.getoutput("gconftool --set --type=list --list-type=string /apps/gedit-2/plugins/active-plugins "+active_plugins)

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To toggle Multi-edit with a keyboard shortcut:

1. Save the script as toggle-multi-edit.py in your home folder.

2. Open up System → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts. Click Add and put python /home/<user>/toggle-multi-edit.py for the Command, replacing <user> with your actual username.

   

Answer 2

Its simple :)

Enabling

1. Edit > Preferences

2. Now look at the Plugins section.

3. Select the check box next to the name of the plugin that you want to enable.

4. You may now Click Close to close Gedit, Then start it again

Disabling

1. Edit > Preferences

2. Now look at the Plugins section.

3. Deselect the check box next to the name of the plugin that you want to enable.

4. You may now Click Close to close Gedit, Then start it again

Answer 3

After finally finding a reference to gedit's plugins, I've put together a bash script...

Because this script is exclusive to gedit, adding it via gedit's External Tools localizes the scope of your choice of shortcut key to gedit only.. I'm using Ctrl+NumPad7 (because it is very close to PageUp and PageDown)...

#!/bin/bash
# Toggle gedit plugin ControlYourTabs  ON/OFF, with inverse switching for   
# Multi-Edit's "Columns Always Available" feature, which uses same shortcuts 
# ==========================================================================
cytab=controlyourtabs
plugins=$(gconftool-2 --get /apps/gedit-2/plugins/active-plugins)
#
if [[ "$plugins" =~ ^\[(.+,)*$cytab(,.+)*\]$ ]] ; then
    #
    # "Control Your Tabs" found in list... Disable it
    #  and enable "Multi Edit - Columns Always Available"  
    #
    if   [[ "$plugins" =~ ^.+\,$cytab(,.+)*\]$ ]] ; then plugins=${plugins/,${cytab}/}
    elif [[ "$plugins" =~   ^\[$cytab\,.+$     ]] ; then plugins=${plugins/${cytab},/}
    elif [[ "$plugins" =~   ^\[$cytab\]$       ]] ; then plugins=[]
    else echo "Logic Error in one of the regex patterns"; exit 1
    fi
    multi=true
else
    # "Control Your Tabs" NOT found in list... Enable it
    #  and disable "Multi Edit - Columns Always Available"  
    #
    plugins=${plugins%]},$cytab]
    multi=false
fi
#
gconftool-2 --set /apps/gedit-2/plugins/active-plugins --type=list --list-type=string "$plugins"
gconftool-2 --set /apps/gedit-2/plugins/multi_edit/columns_always_avail --type bool  $multi  

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