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New magic features in Gedit

Posted in Uncategorized on December 6th, 2009 by ricardo – Be the first to comment

Through the great Linux for Designers blog, we find some exciting developments scheduled for the next release of Gedit, the awesome Gnome text editor. Check out Eckhard’s post for news and links for more, but be sure to check this screencast showcasing a juicy new plug-in: Multi-edit!

Gedit’s great plug-in architecture (based on Python, of course ;o) makes it possible for us to switch the Shoebot IDE to Gedit. Before, we had hacked together the Shoebot GUI editor as a GTK application with a GtkSourceView widget, along with a few options and tools. Through a plug-in, we can just turn Gedit into a full-featured IDE, since we can include other plug-ins as well to make a coder’s life easier. And no re-inventing the wheel anymore!

Gedit is available for GNU/Linux (check your distro’s repositories, it’s surely there!), Windows and OS X.