GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is one of the two main desktop environments on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems it is part of the GNU project, whose purpose is to create a complete, Unix-like and freely distributable computing environment.
Major applications include writing and modifying system configuration files and source code (i.e., the initial version of programs as written by a human in a programming language).Ī desktop environment is a type of software that is designed to provide an advanced graphical user interface (GUI) in which all application programs have the same look and feel, interact seamlessly with each other and even have similar menus to the extent possible. Text editors are distinguished from word processors in that they do not manage document formatting or other features commonly used in desktop publishing. Plain text refers to any string (i.e., finite sequence of characters) that consists entirely of printable characters (i.e., human readable characters) and, optionally, a very few specific types of control characters (e.g., characters indicating a tab or the start of a new line). Gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.Ī text editor is a program developed primarily for writing and editing plain text. I don’t need all the other fancy features in those editors for my workflow.Gedit definition by The Linux Information Project (LINFO) LINFO But I don’t know, for my own use for example, I have found Gedit to be way more than enough. They may also prefer using a complete IDE solution. Some people prefer to use more advanced coding-ready editors like Sublime 3, Atom and others instead of using Gedit.
ConclusionĪs you should have seen by now, Gedit is way more than just a text viewer.
Then follow previous video in order to see how to work with them.
You may also install individual plugins if you want instead of the whole package.Īfter you install the package, just start Gedit, and enable the plugins you want from Preferences -> Plugins.
If you are using Fedora, then run the following command: sudo dnf install gedit-pluginsįor other distributions, just search for the package in your software center or package manager. If you are using Ubuntu/Mint or one of their derivatives, then run the following command in the terminal: sudo apt install gedit-plugins You simply need to install the gedit-plugins package on your Linux distribution. Here’s a video we recorded for Gedit with some activated plugins. Snippets: Do you repeat writing a lot of text/code many times? You can save them per-language using this plugin, and insert them automatically any time you want any where.Bookmarks: Add a bookmark on a specific location in the code so that you can navigate between them quickly.Comment: Allows you easily to comment or uncomment some blocks/lines of code you choose.Color Scheme Editor: This plugins allows you to edit the scheme of the viewed text.Color Picker: Quickly get a code for the color you want to use.Find in Files: Search for a specific text in a set of files.Git: Highlight the changes done on the file since the last Git commit (You’ll see red, green and yellow bars at the beginning of each removed, added and modified lines respectively).