Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment
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How do I adjust the margin for the line numbers in gEdit?
Recently I was able to increase the left margin between code and line numbers in Gedit (Gnome-text-editor) in Ubuntu 12.10.
I don't recall how I achieved this, neither do I recall how Gedit reverted ...
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C++ programming - Is there a way to make gedit recognize new classes?
I'm C++ programming in ubuntu 12.04 using gedit and it recognizes c++ default commands. I was wondering if I can make it able to recognize the new classes I define and change their color in the code ...
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How to change gedit embedded terminal to be “run command as login shell”?
My main reason for doing so was due to latest update to RVM.
https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/
My normal terminal works fine now. But the embeded one inside gedit is a problem.
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Custom keyboard shortcuts in gedit
Since I spend a lot of time on my laptop, I've gotten used to using keyboard shortcuts for everything. I want to be able to switch from tab to tab of opened documents in gedit by pressing Ctrl+Tab ...
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sudo apt-get update error ubuntu 12.04
Hi I'm new in Linux and I need your help :)
Every time when i type sudo apt-get update it shows:
alphaog@alphaog-HP-Pavilion-DV7:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in source ...
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encoding and decoding in gedit
Sometimes in gedit, when I save a text file with special characters (such as Greek characters, math notations, Chinese characters) I copy from some webpage and am about the exit gedit, it will warn me ...
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Crontab opens as blank page, cannot save
I am really not familiar with linux, and only started using it recently, so be patient with me.
I am trying to control a camera on regular intervals through a script that is called upon in the ...
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How do I open weblinks with Firefox, not Gedit?
I save links as files, rather the using bookmarks. I just drag the URL field from Firefox onto my desktop/folder.
Recently these stopped opening in Firefox, and started "opening" in Gedit. Even in ...
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configure gedit to always open in new window
I would like to configure gedit so that everytime I double click on a text file it will open on a new window instead of a new tab. How can this be done?
Something like,
gedit --new-window "file ...
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Make environment variable accessible to application [closed]
In order to get LaTeX to work, I have set the environment variable TEXINPUTS, which includes a path to certain inputted files. It works fine if I'm calling latex (or rubber, or pdflatex) from the ...
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What information I need to add to get the bug noticed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I report a bug?
I filled the bug to Launchpad about Gedit.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1067915
What information I need to add, maybe ...
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Gedit not Launching
For some reason, gedit does not launch. Here is the output it gives:
chris@Chris-Ubuntu-Laptop:~$ gedit
chris@Chris-Ubuntu-Laptop:~$
Descriptive, Let us try the help.
chris@Chris-Ubuntu-Laptop:~$ ...
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Unable to launch gedit with sudo
While trying to follow these instructions, I encountered the following error while attempting what seems like a simple sudo edit operation:
$ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status
** (gedit:14898): ...
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Gedit embedded terminal is empty
I enabled the Embedded terminal plug-in for gedit, but it only appears as in the picture. I can't type anything!
Is there a way to fix this? Or am I missing something?
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Gedit's save empty file dialog I never opened
Every time you open a text file in the file manager (Dolphin) it automatically open a blank document at the same time. The problem with that is that when i close the file it then asks to save the ...
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Convert a (txt|srt) document from Western(ISO-8859-15) to UTF-8
I am having problems with subtitles in my language. They are encoded as Western(ISO-8859-15) and therefore some characters are not displayed correctly. I am tired of replacing manually using gedit ...
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Incorrect spell check results
Firefox and Gedit (at least) are checking spelling wrongly. Which package should I file a bug against?
For some time I've had issues with spell checking in Firefox. I hadn't bothered with them since ...
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Scroll has become remapped to right click in Gedit
I can't use the scroll wheel in Gedit. The scroll up or down events now have the same effect as right clicking.
I'm not sure what happened. I never messed with any settings. This happened while ...
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How to convert WinWord files to open in gedit?
I finally installed Ubuntu in my desktop, but now, when I open Winword files with the text editor, it opens but all the formatting is off. How can I open the file properly?
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gedit snippets plugin not working for encodings other than UTF-8
I just ran into a problem with the snippets plugin of gedit 3.4.1 running on Ubuntu 12.04. The problem is that the snippets plugin stops working (i. e., doesn't react to keyboard shortcuts and ...
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How to paste text from Vim editor to browser?
I need to copy text from vim to web browser since I'm not able to use gedit as I'm opening an sql file. How do I get this done?
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Gedit Ruby 1.9.x syntax highlighting
I have a problem with Gedit and it's way of highlighting new Ruby syntax. In Ruby 1.9.x, we can write Hash this way:
{ class: 'class_name', id: 'uniq_id' }
instead of
{ :class => 'class_name', ...
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Need Software to compare two text files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
File and directory comparison tool?
Is there any software available on Ubuntu12.04 to compare two gedit text files for the differences between them. I have two CSS text ...
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Gedit drag and drop code
I am using Gedit(3.4.1) and use it to edit my website with it.
and usually when i change/remove/edit my website, i have to change all of my html
pages to make it look the same, layout wise and,
right ...
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Where I can found --prefix parameter which was used by installing program? (especially Gedit)
I need to compile plugin with setting --prefix parameter.
Any ways to found --prefix value!
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Cannot open Gedit display on Ubuntu Server 12.04
I just installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 32 bit. I need to perform the following command in a terminal window:
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
First the gedit command did not work; therefore, I did:
...
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Running gedit in background
So I've got this working in a 10.04 ubuntu OS in bash where I can run:
$ gedit app/file.rb
bash opens that file with gedit but it is tied up.
How can I make my earlier command equivalent to $ ...
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Gedit quick search up down button images missing
In gedit 3.4.1 the up and down arrow button icons has gone missing, all it's showing is the icon for image not found. I've had these problems before when installing gedit in other Linux distros but ...
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What package do I need to install to develop plugins for gedit?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with python 2.7.3 and PyGObject and I'd like to develop plugins for Gedit in python. I found a simple looking tutorial for this sort of thing here.
According to the tutorial, I ...
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I have 2 different GEdits?
When I load GEdit, it is different from sudo GEdit.
Normal GEdit gives me Gtk warnings in the console, and ithas a different look.
When I install plugins on either version, it doesn't reflect on the ...
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How to access shared folders from file editors?
I am running a xampp server on one of my other computers, and when using the brows functionality from text editors like gedit, bluefish and Eclipse/Aptana studio I can access the shares I made for the ...
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gksudo 2 commands with one PW entry?
Before upgrading to 12.04 (from 10.04) I used this little launcher script:
#!/bin/bash
gksudo nautilus /var/www/DFDII & sleep 5; gksudo gedit /var/www/DFDII/iindex.php
This script opened ...
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gedit “cannot open display” , on remote computer , using ssh - Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I run a graphical application on a remote server when logged in through ssh?
I am getting the following error message when using ssh to log into a remote ...
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How can I set xdotool and gedit to open a document and save it twice?
I need assistance in creating a script that does the following:
Open Gedit
Open a document with Gedit
Save the document twice
Close Gedit
I was wondering how can I make it happen with Gedit and ...
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How To run Gedit and Subl commands in the background?
If I use Gedit or Subl (sublime text) commands in the terminal to open a file, I can't do anything else in the terminal until I close the text editor. How can I fix this?
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How do I edit the autosave interval of gedit?
Can you people tell me how to edit gedit, please?
I want to change the autosave feature so that it saves every 1 second, I was able to investigate further that I needed gconf-editor so I installed it ...
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How do you use the Commander plugin in gedit?
This plugin is available from gedit-plugins package. Other than what its name and short description are, there are no other helpful info about the plugin usage.
Does anyone know how to use this ...
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Increase or View all Stored History in Gedit
I would like to be able to see the last ~200 files opened in Gedit. I was able to increase the number it shows to 40 using this command:
gconftool-2 --type int --set ...
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How do I run a graphical application on a remote server when logged in through ssh?
I am trying to run gedit from an SSH terminal on Windows, connected to an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04 Server and I am getting this error:
Cannot open display:
How do I fix it?
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How to display Chinese character?
I have a csv file which contains English and Chinese words, in XP I could open it with Notepad++ and it displayed both without problem, but when I went to Ubuntu 12.04 using gedit, it showed Chinese ...
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Can Gedit also backup files like “Untitled Document 1”?
GEdit can make backups of files that have already been saved once.
But can it make backups of files that I have just created, and not saved yet?
Those files are typically shown as "Untitled Document ...
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Install Regex plugin for Gedit
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.I want to install Regex Search and Replace plugin for Gedit.So can some one please tell me where can I get it and install it.Any help and suggestions will be highly ...
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Why does sudo gedit NOT open files starting with Exclamation mark
When trying to open a file with sudo gedit /path/to/file with a file name starting with a ! in front eg !config.ini i can not open the file. However if i do sudo nautilus then open the file with gedit ...
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Prevent SyncTeX from opening new instance Evince?
I'm using the SyncTeX plugin in gedit and it seems that ctrl-clicking in gedit (forward-searching) opens up a new instance of Evince even if there was already an instance open.
Is there a way to ...
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How to make scrolling in gedit slower while selecting text?
In gedit when I try to select a long part of text with dragging the pointer to the edge of the window it scrolls too fast to comfortably control it. Is it possible to make it slower? Should I create a ...
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Why doesn't my gedit(ubuntu 12) have an edit button
Hello I'm pretty newbie with linux os, and I have decidet i want to word on gedit with some addons and etc for develop ruby on rails sites. the problem is my gedit has no edit button and i swere i ...
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Unable to run gedit as a different user
I login as user 'foo' and if I am able to run gedit and edit files in my Ubuntu 12.04 machine with a DISPLAY setting as :0
If I "su - bar" and then try to edit files, I get a no protocol specified ...
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“Unexpected error: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input” in gedit
I have a text file. I created the content of the text file by copying from some webpage into it. During the creation, I was completely under gedit. I then saved the file and exited gedit. But since ...
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Code folding plug-in for gedit 3.2.1?
I need the code folding property in gedit, and I found online a folding.gedit-plugin online, but it never works. My gedit is of version 3.2.1, and it is said that the plugin folding.gedit-plugin was ...
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How do I bind this custom shortcut in gedit?
Here is my problem:
I took the plugin "proper-editing-plugin" (http://code.google.com/p/proper-editing-plugin/) in order to have special bindings for gedit.
The plugin works perfectly by clicking in ...
