Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment
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Gedit 3.6.1, how to increase the number of recent files from its default of 5?
Ubuntu 12.10, gedit 3.6.1
This won't work:
gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/gedit- /preferences/ui/recents/max_recents 30
Modifying this file as root won't work either:
cat ...
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How to enable Gedit autosave files with name of current system Date and Time
I want Gedit to autosave files, by the default name with the current system Date and time. Is this possible?
If not, is any hack to achieve the same?
The use of this feature is, the file names are ...
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How do I safely copy code from websites?
I have broken my ubuntu install on my chromebook enough times to be fed up because each time requires a reinstall. I've done more than 15 reinstalls between yesterday and today.
My problem lies in ...
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Problem on running shell script (how to NOT make it run from gedit) - Ubuntu 12.04
I want to run shell script or at least run it from terminal. I tried going to home folder/edit/preferences/behaviour and set executable text files to 'ask each time' but it doesn't even give the ...
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How to clean gedit's and other editor's find&replace history?
I have started working on a new project using gedit on ubuntu 12.04. The problem i am facing now is that, all previously searched terms are still there when i click on the drop down arrow in search ...
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Setting file browser root in gEdit
I use gedit with the SnapOpen extension, which allows to locate files quickly inside the "browser root" directory. This is the directory which you select in the file browser in the side panel. When ...
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Geany / Gedit: hex editor plugin
Are there any plugins for Geany / Gedit to support reading binary/hex files?
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Will installing gedit also installs a GUI as a dependency in server?
I want to use gedit using ssh for file editing on my server. I use nano, but for html and css gedit is better.
Now with sudo apt-get install gedit I get dependencies that are 120mb, that kind seems ...
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Problem With Gedit Plugins and Python3 on 13.04
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and I use gedit for a lot of things.
I was trying to install some plugins that I use quite frequently and I came into some issues.
First I installed the plugins ...
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libgdk-3.so.0 and libstdc++.so.6.0. errors
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 (updated recently).
I am having some very unusual errors. Initially I had errors for libstdc++.so.6.0 and I tried to resolve it by adding the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu in the ...
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Some Ubuntu 13.04 applications cannot access files on MTP-mounted systems. Why?
Ubuntu 13.04 comes with MTP support to access files on newer Android devices. My Nexus 10 works OK: after plugging in, I can access the N10 files with Nautilus, and I can copy from and to the device. ...
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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 gedit keep randomly opening new instances when opening files from nautilus?
Oh how I love Ubuntu and all its features, but this "bug" has been making me angry for so long and I've finally decided to ask for help here.
I've assigned all .php files to be opened with gedit ...
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How do I encrypt/decrypt file within gedit?
In the previous version of Ubuntu (eg: maverick, natty), I used to do a:
sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins seahorse
to have the ability to encrypt/decrypt file within Gedit after enabling the ...
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Gedit terminal background image
Is there a way to make the gedit embedded terminal have a custom background image instead of just a color?
I've gone through all the options I can think of and haven't found anything.
I have ...
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How can I save an open text file in a GUI console from a text console?
I'm running the latest desktop Ubuntu, and my system seems to have frozen -- the pointer moves when I move the mouse, but nothing else is happening; even the clock is stopped. tty1-6 work just fine, ...
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GEdit not working for some users
I am using GEdit 3.8.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail with GNOME 3.8. I have two user accounts on my computer.
When I launch GEdit in my account, I get a window that is blank, and am not able to ...
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gedit opens different window though it should not
It's a follow-up of Why does gedit keep randomly opening new instances when opening files from nautilus? On Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity:
I double click on a text file on the desktop or through Nautilus. ...
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How can I prevent gedit from making files with ~ [duplicate]
Every time I open an existing file with gedit, it copies said file and appends a tilde (~) to the name. As this is quite annoying, how can I prevent gedit from making those extra files?
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Can I change gedit's background color without changing to another theme?
I like ambiance but i find it a little too hard on the eyes to have to edit files on a pure white background, like gedit's.
Is there any way to modify my theme to make gedit's background color ...
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using gedit through ssh connection - should I have gedit installed on the server?
I wanted to try out using graphical tools over ssh. Just to learn a new thing :)
so my understanding is this, I connect like this: ssh -port -x user@server
But I'm running ubuntu server so it has no ...
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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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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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How to add a new language definition for syntax highlighting in Gedit?
I've attempted to create a new .lang file for getting Gedit to recognize the Julia programming language. I have read the tutorial, the reference document and the wiki page Gedit/NewLanguage, and I ...
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Make gedit embedded terminal colours the same as the default terminal
I've just updated to 11.10 and now my embedded terminal in gedit does not match my default terminal. I hate looking at a white and black terminal. Does anyone know how to make the embedded terminal ...
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Weird bug in gedit - line numbers cut off on the left [closed]
gedit seems to have a bug - if the file has more than 9 lines, but less than 99, the line numbers get cut off on the left side. Does anyone have an an idea how to fix this?
I am running Ubuntu ...
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Cannot Login Ubuntu 12.04
I have been using Ubuntu for 2 months and it work fine. Yesterday I tried to make my Texlive Manager (tlmgr) running by inserting a PATH in /etc/profile.d.
Today when I wanted to login as usual, I ...
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Changing computer name
Can someone tell me how to change the computer name on a pc, I've tried to edit the /etc/hostname file but it won't allow me access to save the amended file, thought the user the system created was ...
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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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Gmate installation issue
I was following the link GMate and Using Gedit as a Ruby IDE to make my Gedit as IDE. But when all the command was running good,the below one throwing me an error.
kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$ sudo ...
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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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How can I change the color of the text in a terminal embedded in GEdit?
I am having trouble using the terminal in GEdit since the text-color is white on gray background. I can not find an option to change anything for that terminal anywhere. How can I change it? N.B. The ...
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gedit + sshfs won't save (vi saves fine!)
I mounted a remote directory using sshfs and I can't save files using gedit, while saving same file using vi works. Changin permission to o-r (640) allows gedit to save files OK. Is there a way to ...
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gedit 3 regex search replace plugin port
So i have been trying to install this plugin:
http://halfhourhacks.blogspot.com/2008/03/gedit-regular-expression-plugin.html
in gedit 3.2.1 but there seem to be some issues. I have modified the ...
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Gmate Install Fail
I'm looking to install gmate to allow use of gedit for Ruby development. Currently I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 x64.
I can add the required repository but when I "apt-get update" the following error is ...
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How to install latest version of rgedit in 13.04
I've got a bug in the version of RGedit in ubuntu's repository and I want to install the latest version to see if this plays better with 13.04 somehow.
What do I do once I download the archive? ...
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“start-tor-browser” only opens a gedit window, not tor
"start-tor-browser" only opens a gedit window, not tor.
I have the most recent version of the Tor Browser Bundle from torproject.org.
(tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.3.25-6-dev-en-US.tar.gz )
When I ...
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Start a new process without blocking the terminal
Is it possible to do this? For example if I run "gedit tifatul.txt" via the command line, my terminal becomes blocked and I can't enter other command in this terminal before I quit gedit. Can I start ...
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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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Opening a non-utf8 encoded text file
I sometimes need to open text files that are encoded in EUC-KR.
man gedit gives:
--encoding
Set the character encoding to be used for opening the files
listed on the ...
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~/.profile OR ~/.bashrc OR ~/.pam_environment
Please which one of these should I edit to give me required result of the path to my programs both in normal user and as root. I have added in normal user and as root but there is error as quoted ...
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Cannot compile java code [Unicode Byte Order Mark 65279]
I wrote a simple Java program with the gedit text editor.
public class Example{
public static void main (String args [])
{
System.out.println("hi yaar");
}
}
When I tried to ...
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Configuring the gedit embeded terminal [duplicate]
I have two problems with my gedit embeded terminal:
First my terminal line is white and black, and I really want it to be like the Ubuntu terminal line that is purple:
Embeded terminal:
Regular ...
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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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Gedit, Evince has print disabled
Print menu command is disabled in evince and gedit. Print functionality works fine in other applications like Chrome, GIMP, Firefox. Ubuntu printer setup correctly recognizes my printer and scanner ...
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gedit shortcuts
Is there a way to make my own shortcuts for terminal in gedit?
I mean, for example if I want to compile a C++ source, when I press F9 I want it to make g++ source_file.cpp (this is only an example)
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Sluggish refresh when scroll on texteditor
it's about two days that I realized that I've got a strange problem on texteditor (gedit, but also Geany and others).
When I scroll the text (with mouse but also with page down/up) it didn't refresh ...
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How can I change the default name that kate and gedit give to new documents?
When you create a new file in kate or gedit they name them like "Untitled1" or "Unsaved Document 1". How can you change this to some other string$n pattern of your choice?
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How do I add a syntax highlighter format to Gedit?
How can I add in the regular expressions for an additional syntax language?
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How can I print the line numbers of gedit?
I want to print the line numbers along with c source-code in the text editor "Gedit". I am tired to look all day at the display.
Thank you for any time or effort.
