gedit is a general purpose UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop systems. gedit is well known for its simplicity and ease of use. You can easily edit various scripting and programming languages source code with gedit.
It is the default text editor for GNOME. gedit comes with a flexible plugin system allowing to dynamically add new features. A number of plugins are included in gedit itself, with more plugins in the gedit-plugins package and online.
Install plugins
Under Debian / Ubuntu Linux you can type the following command to install commonly used plugins:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins
To configure plugin open gedit and visit Edit > Preferences > Plugins Tab
How Do I Enable a Plugin?
To enable a gedit plugin, perform the following steps:
- Choose Edit â–¸ Preferences.
- Select the Plugins tab.
- Select the check box next to the name of the plugin that you want to enable.
- Click Close to close the Preferences dialog.
Step For Disabling a Plugin
A plugin remains enabled when you quit gedit. To disable a gedit plugin, perform the following steps:
- Choose Edit â–¸ Preferences.
- Select the Plugins tab.
- Deselect the check box next to the name of the plugin that you want to disable.
- Click Close to close the Preferences dialog.
Add Python / C++ Autocomplete Plugin
Grab the latest version of Autocomplete plugin here. Unzip / untar the ball:
$ unzip nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580.zip
Sample Outputs:
Archive: nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580.zip 9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580 creating: nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580/ inflating: nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580/README.md inflating: nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580/autocomplete.gedit-plugin creating: nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580/autocomplete/ inflating: nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580/autocomplete/__init__.py
List files:
$ cd nagaozen-gedit-plugin-autocomplete-9e7664759c9486f6cd402f89bedd7a3488328580
$ ls -l
Sample Outputs:
total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 vivek vivek 4096 2009-05-16 05:01 autocomplete -rw-r--r-- 1 vivek vivek 594 2009-05-16 05:01 autocomplete.gedit-plugin -rw-r--r-- 1 vivek vivek 2107 2009-05-16 05:01 README.md
Install Autocomplete Plugin
Type the following commands:
$ mkdir ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/
$ cp -avr * ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/
To enable a gedit autocomplete plugin, perform the following steps:
- Choose Edit â–¸ Preferences.
- Select the Plugins tab.
- Select the check box next to the name of the Autocomplete plugin.
- Click Close to close the Preferences dialog.
Now start writing code and you should see the popup autocomplete. Press [Enter] key to accept the completion.
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13 comment
Great tip,
I was unaware that gedit was capable of this. I will be sure to install and learn from it.
Thanks Alot,
Jaysunn
Good one,
I too don’t know that gedit supports this kind of feature through plugins.
Great article; wasn’t aware gedit could do this so a big thank you!
“Select the check box next to the name of the Autocomplete plugin.”
It was called ‘Python Code Completion’ in the plugin list :)
Great to know about this feature in gedit
it’s not working
i tried it on eswecha/debian version
great feature. i wasn’t aware of this plugin.
XD thanks for highlighting my autocomplete plugin. Just some notes:
In “Grab the latest version of Autocomplete plugin here. Unzip / untar the ball:” – Autocomplete link goes to pycomplete (which is not the one picture is showing)
Thanks for the autocomplete installation steps. I’ve just started coding python after a long hiatus and this feature is a great support. BTW, the latest version of the plugin has an install script that does all the magic.
Thank you for this plugin – it is great!
Well, this autocompletion is useless if all it proposes are names of objects already used in the source code. I’m still struggling with finding an autocompletion plugin that would be aware of all installed python modules and be able to propose those. Or am I missing something?
I can’t use the autocompletion plugin because it doesn’t have a python.json into lib folder, only asp.json… what do I do to enable python autocompletion with this plugin?
Hi everyone, I have a problem with my Mac os x Snow Leopard: I follow every step, but the Plugin isn’t at the panel in Preferences…can somebody help me?
Thanks,
-Nico
new link: ( gedit-plugin-codecompletion )
https://github.com/nagaozen/gedit-plugin-codecompletion/
cheers