One of the powerful default plugins available (but not enabled by default), External Tools allows the user to run external commands on the file being edited from within gedit itself. Displays common tags in a side pane and allows for easy insertion into the file.Įxternal Tools. Some of the most popular are enabled by default while others must be enabled by the user. More than a dozen plugins are pre-installed and can be enabled/disabled in this section.
Plugins greatly enhance the power of gedit and are are accessed via Edit → Preferences → Plugins. Spell Checker: Edit → Preferences → Plugins tab. The user may also select the time between autosaves. If the user does not want gedit to back up files in this manner, deselect the option.Īutosave: Edit → Preferences → Editor tab. Backup files saved in this manner are appended with a trailing "~". This option is enabled by default and creates a copy of the file before saving changes. Several popular options which the user may wish to review after the initial installation are:Ĭreate Backup Copy: Edit → Preferences → Editor tab. ( gksudo is used in this example since the file is a system file owned by root): gksudo gedit +21 /etc/apt/sources.list To open at a specific line number, useful when an error message includes the line number, include "+". It is NOT recommended to manually run graphical applications with administrative privileges, but in case you insist to do it, be sure to use gksudo rather than sudo. To edit system files such as sources.list and fstab, open it with administrative privileges. To open multiple files: gedit file1 file2
If the file is not found, gedit will open a blank file with the file name entered on the command line: If a path is not included in the startup command, gedit will look for the file in the current directory. Opening gedit via the command line allows the user to take advantage of several options unavailable from the GUI menu. Gedit incorporates a graphical user interface (GUI) and is opened by going to Applications → Accessories → Text Editor or by pressing Alt+F2 and typing gedit
Kill can work without specifying a signal explicitly.
Note that the job ID should be prefixed with %, or kill will consider it a PID. Assuming I have a job ID of gedit from the jobs command, let's send SIGINT to gedit: $ kill -s SIGINT %1 Let's start gedit in the background using gedit &. What I like about kill is that it can also work with job IDs. Kill allows fine control over signals, enabling you to signal a process by specifying either a signal name or a signal number, followed by a process ID, or PID. This is similar to starting gedit with &,: $ gedit & Using kill