Comments on: How To Setup Text Editor Plugins (gedit)

By: novice

novice — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:15:23 +0000

how do i show hidden characters like CR LF in gedit?

By: Eco

Eco — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:54:54 +0000

Tried

sudo mkdir ~.gnome2/gedit/plugins

in terminal of jaunty ubuntu from home folder — failed to create or find — What changed from 8.04 to not allow?

By: Dustu

Dustu — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:21:17 +0000

I want to have a detail list of all plugins for ubuntu

By: third

third — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:55:55 +0000

I could not install the HTML-Tidy plugin by copying it (incl chmod) to /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins und Ubuntu 8.04. It just crashed.

But I sucessfully installed HTML-Tidy plugin like this:
sudo mkdir ~.gnome2/gedit/plugins
sudo cp -R html-tid* ~.gnome2/gedit/plugins/

By: im_dan

im_dan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:24:56 +0000

For anyone else having trouble getting plugins to work, remember to set the permissions of the python scripts to executable ie chmod 755 *.py

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:32:30 +0000

OK I was able to install the symbol-browser plugin here http://www.micahcarrick.com/11-14-2007/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin.html#2
by unpacking it to /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins.

I know that’s a system wide installation but it’s installed and working.

I had to take the two files out of the /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/plugins directory and put them into the main plugins directory and it worked.

I’d still like to know if there is a solution to the missing ~/.gnome2/gedit directory for installing to home directory. If anyone has the solution please post it.

Thanks

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:56:12 +0000

Hi,

I have the same problem as the previous post but Ubuntu will not allow me to mkdir gedit because a file called gedit exists.

How do we install a plugin to ~/.gnome2/gedit if the directory doesn’t exist and we can not create the directory? Shouldn’t it be there if it is where gedit looks for plugins?

Is it supposed to be somewhere in user/share or someplace else instead?

Thanks

By: Meneer R

Meneer R — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:35:15 +0000

@Mohammed

The directory is likely hidden.
All directories which name start with a dot (like .gnome2) are hidden.

In Nautilus, in the menu View, select show hidden files -or- alternatively click on the button next to the crumble-bar (that displays the path). It then turns into a text-field; enter any path to go there.

If the gedit or gedit/plugins directory does not exist, just create it.

By: Mohammed El-Hakim

Mohammed El-Hakim — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:33:16 +0000

That’s fine and all. But there are further gedit plugins available which I just fail to install, because there is no .gnome2/gedit/ directory in ubuntu.

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:45:37 +0000

It’s awesome, but I can’t install any extra plug-in. How do I install extra plug-ins? :-\