23 This answer is based on steeldriver's suggestion to look into gedit-plugin-multi-edit. I found a blog post which links to a video demonstrating column selection mode. Even though the links are from 2009, the plugin works in gedit 3.28.1 which is found in Bionic Beaver. Run sudo apt install gedit-plugin-multi-edit.
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++
This is incredibly weird. I don't see "preferences" in any of my gedit menus. I'm running Version 3.8.3. All I want to do is show line numbers, but I can't do that without preferences. Where the h...
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 that
30 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 to find a way to replicate -- Column Mode. Column Mode is a feature available in UltraEdit by pressing Alt + C.
0 Bashrc file is a hidden file inside the home directory. It is actually, give the path directions. And those are wanted to edit .bashrc file, try this command gedit ~/.bashrc instead of this ~/.bashrc . This command gedit ~/.bashrc directly take you to the text editor, where you can edit it easily, as you know.
10 If you create a file using gedit, which is configured to insert 4 spaces each time you press tab. Then for some reason you edit the file and some tabs get inserted (i.e. While editing on Windows). How can you replace those tabs back to spaces using gedit?
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?
