SMWCon Fall 2013/gedit

gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed as a general purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.

Installation

Linux

• As root or with sudo prepended

RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Scientific Linux

yum install gedit
yum install gedit-plugins

Debian, Ubuntu

apt-get install gedit
apt-get install gedit-plugins

Mac OS X

• gedit binaries (choose the most suitable for your Mac OS X version (3.2)
• At the time of writing, 2013-10-25, last versions do not work with Mavericks. You can use previous one.

• How to run gedit from the commandline.

Windows

• gedit last Win32 binary (2.30)

Configuration

In order to help following MediaWiki coding convetions and making programming easier for you, you may enable some of the installed plugins.

Plugins selection

• We suggest the following ones:
  • Bracket completion: it helps to have blocks of code properly delimited. Otherwise you will learn about any error caused by a missing bracket when you load the extension.
  • Code comment: it allows comment/uncomment a whole bunch of code. This makes trying things easier.
  • Draw spaces/tabs: it ensures avoiding having a mix of both of them.
  • Indent/unindent lines: you can also perform this by using Tab or Shift+Tab

etc.

View preferences

• we highlight:
  • Display line numbers: when warnings or errors happen, you can easily find the issue
  • Highlight current line: it helps knowing where you are
  • Highlight matching bracket: it helps designing the programming blocks

Editor preferences

• we highlight:
  • Using a width of 4, as suggested by MediaWiki coding style. In any case, this is only a visual thing and has no effect in the code
  • We will NOT insert spaces instead of tabs
  • Automatic indentation may help you writing code faster