7 Tweaks to Supercharge Gedit as Code Editor

Gedit is a good text editor. Turn it into a good code editor with these tips, tricks and tweaks. It is primarily a text editor, but with some tweaks, it can work as a lightweight code editor.




What you'll learn:
1. Show file browser in the side panel
a. How to see all the available files in the sidebar
b. How to enable the File Browser Panel
c. How to enable the Side Panel View
d. How to change the side panel view to file browser
2. Embed a terminal
a. How You can embed a terminal right into the Gedit text editor
b. How to run the script and check the code changes right there in the editor
c. How to install the terminal plugin in ubuntu
d. How to enable Embedded terminal plugin
e. How to enable bottom panel from hamburger menu
3. Create snippets
a. How to save code as snippet
b. How to Enable the Snippet plugin
c. How you can access the snippets from Hamburger Menu
d. How to Manage Snippets
e. How to add your snippets
f. How to assign a shortcut key to snippets to insert them even more quickly
4. Fix the dark mode problem
a. How to fix if you cannot read anything on the currently selected line
b. How to use a different color scheme
c. How to select a dark color scheme like Oblivion
d. How to change the color scheme a little
e. How to see the text on the highlighted lines
5. Quick highlight selected text
a. How to highlights all the occurrences of the same word in the entire document
b. How to enable the Quick Highlight option
6. Show line numbers
a. How to enable line numbers
b. How to Display Line Numbers
7. Autosave files
a. How to enable autosave in Gedit
b. How to save the changes automatically
c. How you can enable the Autosave feature
d. How to autosaves every 10 minutes.







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