Today many open source text editors are available, for Ubuntu and Debian operating systems (OS). Both OS have 'gedit' as their default text editor. In its default settings gedit will not provide advanced auto text completion, but you can modify the settings to avail this functionality.
Many times my fellow developers asked me why I am using gedit for coding, while other more advanced editors are available. I didn't had a reason to support my favor to gedit, but personal preference. I thought about making gedit a more useful editor like geany, sublime etc.(both are open source editors) and i searched in Google for improving the coding standards and editor efficiency, finally I found the Gedit plugin.
You can download this plugin from the below links.
Features
- Auto-close brackets and quotes
- Auto-complete XML tags
- Detects lists and automatically creates new list items
- Auto-indent after function or list
Installation
Gedit 2 (up till Ubuntu 11.04)
- Unpack the archive
- Put intelligent_text_completion.gedit-plugin and intelligent_text_completion.py inside .gnome2/gedit/plugins/ in your home directory.if folder extension is starting with '.' it means that folder is a hidden folder in Ubuntu lots of system supported folders are hidden, Open your home directory and go to view->show hidden files or ctrl+h (create it if it doesn't exist yet, by default the 'plugins' folder will not be there.)
- How to get .gnome2 folder in your Ubuntu machine?,
- Restart Gedit.
- Go to Edit->Preferences->Plugins and check the box for Intelligent Text Completion
- Unpack the archive
- Put intelligent_text_completion.plugin and intelligent_text_completion.py inside .local/share/gedit/plugins in your home directory. (create it if it doesn't exist yet)
- Restart Gedit.
- Go to Edit->Preferences->Plugins and check the box for Intelligent Text Completion
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