When you then start editing, it will edit the whole column (just as if you would have inserted multiple edit points manually and removed the text in the column). Useful development-related Gedit plugins. This means you can select a part of the text, and press Enter to make the selection into a column selection. In addition to inserting multi edit points, it also features column editing when you are in multi edit mode. You can then press Escape to remove the additional edit points, and press Escape again to finally quit multi edit mode. When you start typing the inserts/deletes will be replicated in all the edit points. Additionally, you can use Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End to respectively insert edit points at the beginning or end of the line automatically (it will also skip to the previous/next line so you can quickly insert edit points at the beginning or end of some lines). You enter this mode by Ctrl+Shift+C, and once enabled you can start inserting edit points manually by pressing Ctrl+E at any point in the document. The new plugin introduces a new ‘mode’ in which you can do multi editing. Although the plugin was written from scratch, credits should go to Jon Walsh who wrote a similar plugin and on which the ideas for this plugin were based.
I myself found the plugin very helpful in many, otherwise tedious, editing tasks. This plugin allows you to create multiple edit points in the document by which you can simultaneously edit your document at multiple places. You can use xargs (combined to the Selection input) to use the selected text as an argument for you command.We recently landed a new gedit plugin in the gedit-plugins module named ‘multi-edit’. You can also share your home-grown tools by copying the relevant file in your home directory. Note that it is good practice to begin the file with a shebang (ex: #!/bin/perl) so that the system knows which interpretor it should use. The rest of the file is the script to be ran. Output: the output ( nothing, output-panel, new-document, append-document, replace-document, replace-selection or insert).Īpplicability: all, titled, local, remote, or untitled. Input: the input ( nothing, document, selection, selection-document, line or word) Shortcut: the keyboard shortcut, in usual gtk format. Name: the tool name, as displayed in the menu. Those lines contain key/value pairs, in the form of key=value. The metadata section starts with a # line, and each following line from the metadata section should start with # . (Note: when upgrading to gedit 3, the user generated external tools may not be moved automatically.)Įach tool consists on an executable script file (in Bash, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) containing a metadata section that resembles usual desktop files. usr/share/gedit/plugins/externaltools/tools
GEDIT_FILE_BROWSER_ROOT (new in gedit 3.9) You can revert latter ones to the upstream version in one click. You can add and remove custom tools, and customize system-provided tools. Output: what to do with the commands output.Īpplicability: what documents can be affected by that tool? Criteria are: saved or not, local or remote, language. Input: what content to give to the commands (as stdin). Save: saving or not (current document or all documents) before running the tool. Shortcut Key: the key binding associated to the current tool. Here is a short description of the editable properties for a given tool: The name of the current tool can be edited directly using the list on the left side of the dialog. To run tools, go to Tools -> External Tools or use (if applicable) associated shortcut keys. A dialog will appear and you can start adding tools. To configure the plugin, go to Tools -> Manage External Tools.
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To install the plugin, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins -> External Tools. This allow the user to do two things: either to pipe some content into a command and to exploit its output (for example, sed), or to simply launch some predefined command (for example, make). The goal of this plugin is to allow users to execute external commands from gedit interface.