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Apr 18, 2019 · In the gedit Text Editor menu click Edit, and then click Preferences. A popup named gedit Preferences opens up. In the same popup on the first Tab named View, under the sub-heading Text Wrapping click the check box named Enable text wrapping, to toggle the text wrap feature on or off.

Jul 20, 2017 · 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.

May 20, 2012 · I have gedit configured as git core.editor. git config --global core.editor "gedit" This works fine unless there is already a gedit windows open. In that case, COMMIT_EDITMSG is opened in the existing window and gedit returns immediately. Git ends up with an empty commit message and fails.

Jun 29, 2012 · If you want to disable the plugin without going through the gedit user interface, you can try using the gconf-editor tool to modify the GConf settings directly. Just navigate to apps/gedit-2/plugins and remove the checkupdate plugin from the list.

Nov 23, 2011 · Here is another workaround, you can use vim to auto indent and auto format your code from inside Gedit. First make sure that vim is installed. Next, add an "external tool" to Gedit from the "tools" menu and use the following code:

Apr 5, 2013 · Gedit (the default text editor) using GTKSourceView for it's syntax highlighting. It uses XML files to define how to highlight different syntax. There is a tutorial and a reference document on the GTKSourceView site.

Nov 14, 2019 · root@TTNPL-6668:~# sudo gedit /etc/profile Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (gedit:8613): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:17:04.209: cannot open display: worked for this warning. Simply change user , maybe you are running this command as root run this command directly from user it will work.

Jul 28, 2010 · Update: Gedit has now added this feature. I'm keeping my answer around for those using older versions of the application. Gedit does not come with this feature. But there is a plugin you can get: Splitview plugin (Archived page from Gedit/Plugins - GNOME Live) Splitview plugin source code (Archived page)

Dec 6, 2024 · Gedit, the default text editor, was replaced by a brand new editor, Gnome Text Editor in Ubuntu 22.10 and above. Use the command: sudo gnome-text-editor /etc/fstab instead. Alternately you may use a text based (non GUI) editor like nano: sudo nano /etc/fstab Sometimes nano is more convenient. Hope this helps