I'm a newbie to Linux. Is there a way to see the control characters in gedit. I went to options->preferences and all I got is option to see the line numbers of the text file. Is there any plugin th...

I'm used to eclipse's and notepad++'s behavior of automatically opening the files and tabs present on last exit. Does anyone know if there is a way to enable this in Gedit? The session management p...

I am using gedit & I have a very huge line and I am not able to see that complete line because gedit gets stucking. so, I wanted to do word wrapping in gedit. I searched but I didnt found word ...

Let's assume we have two text documents: Our first file contains "hi" as text. Our second file contains "hi" as text. When we open these two files in gedit, vi, or vim, the two files are visual...

By default, gedit doesn't syntax highlight .asm files. How can I add this support for this language?

I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut to quickly open links in a text file with a Web browser. Is there a trick or a plugin out there?

Using winston for node.js logging, I get json log files. A log file in this vein is simply a sequence of (newline delimited) json objects. This is great for log querying and treating logs as first-...

I have gedit configured as git core.editor. git config --global core.editor "gedit" This works fine unless there is already a gedit windows open. In that case, COMMIT_EDITMSG is opened in the ex...

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 as Windows Subsystem for Linux on my Windows 10 machine. I've installed gedit without any errors or warnings. But whenever I try to use the command gedit something (h...

I found that in 123, \d matches 1 and 3 but not 2. I was wondering if \d matches a digit satisfying what kind of requirement? I am talking about Python style regex. Regular expression plugin in G...

I'm transitioning from UltraEdit on Windows to gedit on Linux. So far, the experience is great (there's a lot here for a free tool), but there's one indispensable feature of UltraEdit I can't seem ...

Any way to highlight both braces on Gedit?, it's annoying when you have several braces joined and is not clear which one are you pointing. Highlighting both braces would be a simple solution to kn...

I tried to add some plugins in gedit 3.10.4 on ubuntu 14.04LTS and some errors occured when I try to activate those plugins in gedit: (gedit:20686): libpeas-WARNING **: Error initializing Python...

The Version of Gedit on the gnome.org site does not seem to run on OSX Mavericks. Is there any way to fix this?

How come I always get "GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a syst...

I want to replace only first occurrence of word(default) in each line with another word(rwd). As below I want this: ../app/design/adminhtml/default/default/layout/pmodule.xml ../app/design/fronte...

I'm trying to run some normal text editor in cygwin (version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3)). I've really disappointed and frustrated with emacs :( So I downloaded and installed gedit as a part of cygwin package...

I'm new on Linux and new on gedit, of course. I use Ctrl+Z to undo something, but undo too much and I press Ctrl+Y, which I used to on Windows, but it not redo for me. So, how could I redo on gedit...

The thing is, I want to track if a user tries to open a file on a shared account. I'm looking for any record/technique that helps me know if the concerned file is opened, at run time. I want to cr...

I'm trying to get gedit to auto-indent my code. The auto-indent check-box in preferences doesn't work. Is there a way to get gedit to auto-indent code? (By the way, I only really care about C++ ind...

I'm just starting out learning python with GEdit plus various plugins as my IDE. Visual Studio/F# has a feature which permits the highlighting on a piece of text in the code window which then, on ...

Apologies if this duplicate but a lot of other threads are years old. I want to update my $PATH variable permanently so it doesn't reset everytime I quit Terminal. I have seen people suggest to ru...

I am writing in python 3.5.1 and I am a programming novice. I use gedit with a pep8 and pyflakes plugins showing style mistakes according to the python style guide. I do not know whether to follow...

Is there a way to comment out a chunk of highlighted code? I am programming in ruby, and I hate putting # on lines individually.

I am programming in a dedicated language called macro language. To comment I need to add # at the beginning of the line. What I want is, in order to spare time, to comment several lines of code a...