Further configure Gedit

from: http://groups.drupal.org/node/98769#comment-325294

Just looked around for a good replacement for Notepad++ and found that... Gedit is very powerful! it's just a matter of performing a bit of configuration and the editor is ready for some nice coding :)

This is the code to put in a script for setting gedit up properly:

sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/auto_indent/auto_indent 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/bracket_matching/bracket_matching 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/current_line/highlight_current_line 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/line_numbers/display_line_numbers 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/right_margin/display_right_margin 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/tabs/insert_spaces 1
gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/tabs/tabs_size 2

The first line just installs a few plugins that can be very useful; the other lines just perform some simple configuration for the editor. I didn't include configuration for plugins, since I think it's better for everyone to decide which ones to use and how.

I also checked out the need for performing small tweaks remotely and found that Nautilus has a very cool, built-in way of working with remote file systems! To be able to work from Gedit it's just a matter of creating a bookmark on Nautilus and then browsing to it in the integrated file browser that gedit has (F9).