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pluma (Latin: plūma "feather") is a fork of gedit 2 and the default text editor of the MATE desktop environment

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Pluma shifts displayed text from "find" to left - can that be stopped

Like using Pluma more but when doing a "Find/Replace" the entire display of text shifts to the left making it impossible to read the beginning of the line(s). Is there a way to stop this ...
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How to change size of replace dialog box of pluma text editor

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 Mate LTS (and I know there is a newer version). The size of the replace dialog of the Pluma (v. 1.24.0) editor seems to be fixed. I'd like to enlarge it so that I can see ...
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How to zoom in and out of text in Pluma?

I am using newest version of Ubuntu mate (22.04 - Jammy jelly-fish), where the text editor is 'Pluma'. Earlier, when I was in mint, I used to press 'Ctrl + scroll' for zooming in and out for changing ...
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Is there a way to specify beginning of line in a Pluma Search?

Here is my description of the current system: Pluma 1.24.0 Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS MATE 1.24.0 I was trying to replace spaces with tabs, but only at the beginning of a line. I could find spaces, and ...
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How do I change all Pluma settings

Using Ubuntu Mate 21.04 I guess I've done something wrong here, but when I select File/Open in Pluma, the chooser lists files/directories in reverse alphabetical order. How do I change this setting? I ...
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Difficult to choose a good Pluma syntax highlighting option for simple documentation. Help please?

I want to write some really simple notes to myself about some code I am writing. Actually, it would be sufficient just to put e.g. [CODE]...[/CODE] brackets round bits of quoted code so that it ...
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pluma editor open document on a new instance

I am using ubuntu mate 20.04. Whenever pluma is open and I want to edit another file it opens on a new tab on the already opened editor.How can I force it to open on a new window instead?
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How can I add Markdown syntax highligting to Pluma in 16.04 LTS?

I'm using Pluma on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS and I see that it does not support syntax highlighting for Markdown lightweight markup language. But I know that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (and newer versions) have ...
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Setting Pluma's Default File Manager

While messing around with Lubuntu 19.04, running lxqt-sudo to launch Pluma text editor as root so that I could edit the /var/www PHP projects I had, I noticed when rightclicking the file browser pane ...
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Start a new instance of pluma or gedit when one is open already

pluma, and I believe gedit also, does not start a new instance, if it is running already, but instead opens the file with the existing instance. The call then returns immediately. Normally this is ...
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Select range of lines in native linux text-editors (gedit, pluma, nemo)

I have a very large text file, and I want to select part of the text (range of lines. Example: from line 10000 to line 40000 and the text has 100 thousand lines). But I do not see any option in these ...
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Saving files without a trailing newline [duplicate]

Recently I discovered that, after years of thinking various software was adding a newline to the end of my files, it was actually Pluma (or Gedit - same difference) silently adding them all along. ...
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Pluma/Gedit REMOVE languages

I like to remove most of the languages from the pluma/gedit menues, where they show up. It's great that the editors support so many languages. But most of them I never use. So they are only in the ...
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Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Pluma: 'Failed to load module 'pythonloader'

Pluma 1.18.2 on MATE 17.10 updated Jan 13 2018 Attenpting to enable Python Console through Plugin menu. (pluma:26739): libpeas-WARNING **: Failed to load module 'pythonloader': /usr/lib/x86_64-...
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How to increase the number of recent files in Pluma from its default of 5?

The way for gedit doesn't work. Lubuntu 16.04 LTS, Pluma 1.12.2 from the repositories. Command-line solution without the use of external programs is preferred.
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